News - TASSORT (AUS)
At the end of last season there were a lot of people looking to hail the first crop sires as a vintage bunch led by Too Darn Hot (GB), who broke all records for his efforts to be champion by earnings and winners for 2023/2024 with the result that he and most of his peers were given a fee increase and a month into a new season the state of play looks like this.
Emirates Park tackled the Group II Darley Silver Shadow Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill with two high-class homebred daughters of Tassort, and it was Ameena’s time to steal the limelight from Group 1 winner Manaal.
Newgate Farm’s young sun sire Tassort went close to a metro double on Saturday with Mawjood going down narrowly at Rosehill behind quality colt Mayfair and then Astapor scored a deserved win at Eagle Farm as favourite.
The Chris Waller stable produced another new metro juvenile winner on Wednesday with Tassort filly Good Sort opening her account at Canterbury, while Tassort’s Newgate barn mate Brutal chimed in with a winner of his own with a debut victory at Balaklava for Big Brute.
It was another excellent weekend for exciting first-season sire Tassort, with Purosangue making a winning debut at Toowoomba on Saturday night and Zampano keeping his record at a perfect two for two at Gunnedah on Sunday.
Matthew Dunn took the wraps of the promising Tassort filly Shamadan, who will likely head to town soon following a dominant performance on debut over 1010m at Murwillumbah on Friday.
There were seven heats won by juveniles at the Randwick trials on Thursday morning that included some expensive unraced youngsters and we also had a look at Group I ATC Champagne Stakes winner Broadsiding, who obviously has the Group I BRC JJ Atkins next month in his sights.
A “natural 2YO from a fast family’’ topped today’s HTBA Yearling Sale at Riverside in a result that was “far and away more’’ than the vendor was expecting.
A Tassort colt from the Blue Gum Farm draft topped today’s Gold Yearling Sale at Oaklands, selling to Trilogy Racing for $80,000.
Emirate Park Stud's homebred Tassort filly Manaal will stake her claim for Champion Two-Year-Old in Saturday's $750,000 Group 1 Moet & Chandon Champagne Stakes (1600m) at Randwick.
Emirates Park homebred filly Manaal won the Group III ATC Gimcrack Stakes on debut last spring and has gone from strength to strength as her juvenile season has unfolded putting the icing on the cake at Randwick on Saturday when beating the colts to win the $1million Group I ATC Sires Produce Stakes (1400m).
Tassort has another star juvenile on the radar with exciting Anthony and Sam Freedman trained filly Ameena winning as she pleased at Caulfield Heath on Wednesday to make it two easy wins in as many starts.
Our analysis of Australian Studbook covering statistics for 2023 continues with a look at a very interesting group of sires whose oldest progeny are two year-olds, so when fees were announced last year they did not have runners, but as the spring unfolded things were changing rapidly and for some that meant a bonanza in terms of mare bookings.
There’s a lot to like about the first three across the line in the Paul Perry Hcp (1300m) for 2-year-olds at Newcastle on Wednesday, won by the talented Tassort colt Last Command.
The Australian Studbook have today released the official covering statistics for the 2023 breeding season with 22 sires covering books of 150 or more mares which was significantly down on last year when 31 stallions were in the 150 plus club.
Emirates Park homebred filly Manaal won the Group III ATC Gimcrack Stakes on debut last spring putting her young sire Tassort on the map with a stakes-winner as his first starter and now she is likely to be his first Golden Slipper runner after a stylish win in the Group II ATC Sweet Embrace Stakes (1200m).
Tassort added a fourth winner to his tally at Bendigo on Saturday when the Anthony and Sam Freedman trained filly Ameena bolted clear to win as she pleased on debut.
Newgate Farm’s promising young sire Tassort has been on the board quickly with three first crop winners including Group III ATC Gimcrack Stakes winner Manaal and his achievement has not gone unnoticed with his five yearlings in Book 1 all being sold in the first three sessions at an average of $209,000.
The Magic Millions 2YO Classic is just over a month away and the $500,000 Inglis Nursery is on this Saturday at Randwick, so interest in what is happening at the trials is on high alert and for the first season sires you need ammo in the locker if you’re going to be able to fire a shot.
There were originally going to be some super interesting juvenile trials at Canterbury on Thursday morning, but Sydney’s wild weather forced them to move to the polytrack at Warwick Farm and as a result there were many scratchings with only a couple of trials that actually took place, but that was enough for us to get a look at a couple of youngsters likely to give Tassort his next winner.