News - SHAMUS AWARD (AUS)
The 2019 Karaka Ready to Run Sale achieved strong results and while the average was down slightly on last year, the median remained on a par at $60,000 and the clearance rate of 74% was up, creating opportunity enough to deliver pinhooking success, so let’s take a look at the big winners headed by the sale-topping son of Shamus Award.
There was plenty of interest in lot 375, the Shamus Award colt out of stakes-placed mare Exchanges, on the second day of New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready To Run Sale of 2YOs, but when the dust settled it was Andrew Williams who came out on top.
Promising young Victorian based sires Shamus Award and Puissance de Lune (IRE) both have runners in the Victoria Derby on Saturday with good chances in Soul Patch and Southern Moon, the dynamic duo also siring smart winners at Moonee Valley on Friday night.
This weekend’s Cox Plate has drawn together a fascinating field featuring a host of international raiders to take on the best of the locals and while for the past four years Winx has made this event almost a foregone conclusion as she raced her way into the record books, this year we have something new and intriguing to excite racing fans.
Saturday’s Group III Up And Coming Stakes at Randwick was chockful of promising three-year-olds that were aiming for better things down the track but few on course were prepared for the drama that followed.
Rosemont Stud will throw open the gates to its impressive Gnarwarre Stud in Geelong on Saturday, August 10 for an 11am sharp parade of their high quality stallion draft for 2019.
Cox Plate hero Shamus Award has relocated to Rosemont Stud in Victoria for this spring and received a big boost when his talented son Mr Quickie captured the Group I BRC Queensland Derby at Eagle Farm on Saturday.
Cox Plate winner Shamus Award has given himself a live hope for the Group I BRC Queensland Oaks in two weeks time with his talented staying daughter Etana taking out the Group II BRC The Roses at Doomben on Saturday.
The news last week of the return of Starspangledbanner to Rosemont Stud has been backed up this week with the Victorian farm announcing that former Widden stallion Shamus Award will stand at Rosemont this season.
Shamus Award three year-old Mr Quickie showed he was right on target for a tilt at the Group I SAJC South Australian Derby (2500m) next month when scoring a powerful win in the $250,000 MRC VOBIS Gold Heath at Caulfield on Saturday.
Most experts anticipated that the progeny of Shamus Award would really hit their straps as three-year-olds, and it would appear that they were correct.
Widden Stud’s Cox Plate winner Shamus Award posted his first stakes-winner on Saturday when progressive three year-old Classix Weiwei took out the Listed SAJC Port Adelaide Guineas over 1800 metres.
A competitive juvenile maiden at Rosehill on Wednesday was won in determined style by Shamus Award colt True Detective, a $100,000 Inglis Classic purchase for Byron Rogers’ Performance Genetics LLC.
Rosina Kojonup continued on her winning way on Wednesday, adding more to the burgeoning broodmare career of her dam Courgette.
Racing in the silks of Dalziel Racing and Rosemont Stud, the Shamus Award gelding Mr Quickie took his record to four wins from six starts with a dominant performance in a benchmark 64 over 1400 metres at Sandown on Wednesday.
As a half-sister by Shamus Award to Golden Slipper winner She Will Reign there has always been a lot of interest in this talented filly, who cast off maiden status at Hawkesbury on Wednesday.
Cox Plate and Australian Guineas winner Shamus Award is coming to the end of the season with a flurry of success adding two promising debut winners to his tally on Monday.
Widden Stud’s Cox Plate winner Shamus Award featured at Doomben on Saturday when his exciting filly Malahide scored a resounding win in the $175,000 BRC Aquis Crystal Slipper.
Widden Stud’s Cox Plate winner Shamus Award featured at the Gold Coast on Wednesday with an impressive debut winner in Malahide.
Cox Plate hero Shamus Award had an impressive winner at Cranbourne on Friday evening with two year-old gelding Shamino dashing clear to win as he pleased.