From Breednet: Pierro’s Group I winning $5.8million earning son Pierata covered some terrific mares in his first season at Aquis Stud, but none better than Loving Gaby and her first foal lit up the Gold Coast sale ring at Magic Millions on Tuesday.
From Breednet: Breednet’s popular First Season Sire Gallery pages are now created offering a fast and easy way to compare yearlings by the new wave of sires on type, so let’s take a look at Magic Millions pin up boy Pierata, the first son of Golden Slipper winning sire Pierro to retire to stud.
From TDN: The team at Aquis Farm is up and about, thanks to the deeds of their young stallions, who are churning out winners. Admittedly it’s very early in the season, but if you take a look at the First Season Sires’ Premiership, you will notice that four of the top 10 are residents of Aquis Farm in Canungra, Queensland.
From Breednet: A winner for Lean Mean Machine with his first runner and the exciting Brave Smash (JPN) two-year-old Brave Halo keeping his record at a perfect three for three made it a memorable day for Aquis Farm’s first-season stallions.
From TDN: Lean Mean Machine’s barnmate, Brave Smash (Jpn) looks to have a potential star among his first crop in the shape of Brave Halo, who retained his unbeaten record by bringing up the third win of his career with a third victory at Ascot.
From TDN: Aquis Farm’s first-season sire Lean Mean Machine got his career in the breeding barn off to the perfect start when his first runner, Freeman, broke her maiden at Doomben.
From ANZ Bloodstock: Freeman (2 f ex Nashville Skyline by Not A Single Doubt) provided Aquis Farm’s first season sire Lean Mean Machine (Zoustar) with a debut winner from his first runner when scoring in a 1100-metre contest at Doomben yesterday.
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From ANZ Bloodstock: This week’s Maiden of the Week accolade goes to two runners owned by Gandharvi Racing, who enjoyed a breakthrough week in the southern hemisphere, with Zoustar (Northern Meteor) filly Kazou and juvenile Santos (I Am Invincible) filly Ulanova both making successful debuts in Australia and New Zealand respectively.
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From TDN: Aquis Farm’s first-season sire Performer gained his first winner on Sunday, courtesy of Mishani Maverick at the Sunshine Coast Poly Track. Trained by Les Ross, the 2-year-old gelding was having just his second start, and comfortably closed down race leader Revitup Charlie (Top Echelon) entering the home straight to register a 1l victory, with Magic Of Millo (The Mission) a further 0.3l away in third.
From ANZ Bloodstock: Aquis Farm stallion Performer (Exceed And Excel) was represented by his first winner on Sunday, when Mishani Maverick (2 g ex Mishani Sinner, by Falvelon) scored over 1000-metres at the Sunshine Coast.
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