News - WANDJINA (AUS)
Two wins in as many starts has made the Kris Lees trained Wandjina filly Wandabaa a popular girl with her large group of owners put together by Australian Bloodstock.
Newgate Farm’s Wandjina has continued his impressive run of winners at the back end of the season with the Kris Lees-trained Wandabaa making the perfect start to her racetrack career at Gunnedah on Sunday.
A three-quarter brother to dual Group I winner Russian Revolution, two year-old Wandjina colt Autocratic cast off maiden status with a well-deserved win at Newcastle on Tuesday.
Exciting young Newgate sires Wandjina and Deep Field provided the quinella in the $27,000 Star Kingdom Handicap for juvenile colts at Muswellbrook on Easter Monday and then the next winner with Deep Field filly Just Field winning the $27,000 Miss Finland Handicap for juvenile fillies in spectacular style.
Promising young sire Wandjina featured with a brilliant debut winner at Morphettville on Saturday with Hearty Lass leading all the way for an impressive win.
On the eve of the Group I VRC Australian Guineas, which he won in 2015, Wandjina has posted a promising debut winner with a tenacious front running victory for Order of Valour at Kyneton on Thursday.
The juvenile maiden at Warwick Farm on Wednesday looked a strong affair on paper with victory going to talented Wandjina colt Deep Chill, who will now be aimed towards Group I races such as the ATC Sires Produce Stakes and Champagne Stakes.
Snitzel’s Group I winning son Wandjina sired his first stakes horse at Flemington on Saturday with the Tony McEvoy trained colt Grand Scholar showing good potential with a brave third in the Listed VRC Maribyrnong Trial.
Get the breeding insights on all the winners this morning from the official Sydney 2YO Trials on the Kensington track at Randwick.
The HTBA Scone Yearling Sale entered uncharted territory today as three horses sold for $100,000 or more for the first time in its history.
The field for the $250,000 Inglis Classic race this Saturday at Warwick Farm for juveniles sold at last year’s Inglis Classic Yearling Sale has proven a glowing endorsement for Newgate Farm with six of the 16 runners sired by stallions standing at the progressive Hunter Valley nursery.
Just as we did last year, Newgate Farm will again offer an innovative cash incentive for buyers at the 2018 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale that purchase a yearling by one of our first crop sires – Deep Field, Dissident and Wandjina.
The most represented first season sires at Magic Millions this year were all sold as yearlings, so we thought a look back in time at what they were like as yearlings might be a good insight for buyers inspecting their offspring this week.