News - TRAPEZE ARTIST (AUS)
Stakes-placed Trapeze Artist mare She’s an Artist is lightly raced with loads of upside and brought a touch of class to Warwick Farm on Wednesday when winning the Benchmark 88 event over 1200m.
A new Australian juvenile season is off and running with two Group races at Randwick on Saturday and a Listed race at Flemington, so let’s check out these brand new stakes-winners by Trapeze Artist, Ole Kirk and Snitzel, worth noting two are from daughters of Fastnet Rock
The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable are always hard to beat in early season juvenile races and Trapeze Artist colt Flying Houdini delivered the goods for his big group of owners when leading all the way to win the $250,000 Group III ATC Breeders Plate (1000m) at Randwick on Saturday.
The $200,000 Listed ATC Rosebud (1100m) attracted a competitive field of talented three year-olds and the cream rose to the top when two Group winning fillies from last season filled the quinella with Chilly Girl surging past the favourite Blue Door.
History shows the great sire dynasties of the world wax and wane over time, so for breeders that can identify the right sire going forward the rewards can be huge and in some cases life changing.
Trapeze Artist is enjoying his best ever season and part of that success has been driven by his juveniles and his equal most expensive yearling sold in 2025 became his latest 2YO winner at Hawkesbury on Sunday.
Widden Stud’s Trapeze Artist has been enjoying a breakout season with three stakes-winning juvenile fillies in Spicy Miss, Chilly Girl and Where’s the Circus - with one of them trialling in impressive fashion on Friday.
Sires that can produce 2YO winners and in particular 2YO stakes-winners have a unique appeal in the marketplace and one stud has six stallions on their 2026 roster that have done just that this season and not one of those stallions stands for more than $27,500.
Given a freshen up since her effort in the G1 ATC Queen of the Turf Stakes in April, the Chris Waller trained Pinito achieved her second G3 level success, and third black type win overall, winning the $200,000 G3 BRC Magic Millions Fillies And Mares Mile (1600m) at Doomben on Saturday.
The Chris Waller and James McDonald show rolled into Adelaide on Saturday and they came away with another G1 victory after Trapeze Artist filly Panova produced a career best performance to win the $1million Group I SAJC Australasian Oaks (2000m).
Widden Stud might be synonymous with reigning champion sire Zoustar, but there are plenty of value sires on the roster in both states and three of them had smart winners on Wednesday.
At Ballarat on Good Friday, the feature event on the card was the $300,000 Country Discovery and four year-old Trapeze Artist sprinter Spywire added another lucrative win to his tally.
It’s not common for a two year-old to win an open provincial maiden at this time of year against older rivals, but after it happened at Hawkesbury on Thursday, up and coming trainer Jack Pilkington is allowing himself to dream.
Widden Stud’s Trapeze Artist has enjoyed an exceptional run of stakes success over the summer and featured again at Randwick on Saturday when his quality four year-old mare Pinito took out the Group III ATC Aspiration Quality (1600m).
Widden Stud’s Trapeze Artist has had a real resurgence this season and added two new stakes-winner to his tally on Saturday with Spicy Miss capturing the Group II ATC Sweet Embrace Stakes and then in Perth progressive 3YO The Crimson Pirate took out the Listed WATC Lex Piper Stakes (1600m).
The $300,000 Group II ATC Sweet Embrace Stakes (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday provides the winner with an automatic start in the Golden Slipper and Trapeze Artist filly Spicy Miss grabbed that opportunity when leading home a trifecta for Widden Stud based sires.
Talented Trapeze Artist mare Piggyback stormed into contention for autumn staying feature races when she zoomed to the line to win the $250,000 Group III ATC Paramatta Cup (1900m) at Rosehill on Saturday.
Flashy Trapeze Artist mare She’s an Artist is an eye-catcher, not just for her considerable talent, but also for her abundant bling and she was able to overcome difficulties to score a determined first up win at Caulfield on Monday.
It only seems fitting that a filly bred at Widden Stud should win the Group III ATC Widden Stakes (1100m) with victory at Rosehill on Saturday going to Trapeze Artist filly Chilly Girl.
The release of third declarations for the Group I MRC Blue Diamond Stakes next month has Widden Stud’s fairytale colt Unit Five still in the mix after his brilliant win in the Magic Millions 2YO Classic, but next week the focus for Team Widden turns to Inglis Classic.