Autumn Sun Without a Doubt

        The weekend bought us some Autumn Sun and overseas success for the Australian bred horses. There are two of Danehill sons who are shining a bright light for our industry, right now. Fastnet Rock who was foaled in 2001 and the old man, Redoutes Choice a 1996 foal who with his sons Snitzel,Not A Single Doubt,Stratum, Master of Design and others are leaving winners everywhere like yesterdays group one, Singapore's Kranji Mile with Southern Legend. In Ireland it was the 27 million dollar colt,  Merchant Navy by Fastnet Rock who scored easily in the Group 2 Greenland Stakes. Their clans got plenty of winners in Australia to add to the International success. 

• Autumn Sun -- The son of Redoutes Choice kept his unbeaten record in tact, with an easy win, in the 1400m opener at Randwick. The Waller, trained two year old colt cruised to victory under jockey Brendan Avdulla and is how heading to the Group 1 J.J.Atkins in Brisbane on June 9th. He is out of the Galileo mare, Azmiyna. He looks another stallion son, in the making for the king of Australian Racing.

 Autumn Sun as a Yearling 

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• Not A Single Doubt -- I wanted to include this Redoutes son in our review today because of his constant success with winners all over Australia and a group one win in Singapore as his Hong Kong son Southern Legend, scored an easy victory, in the Kranji Mile . Touch of Mink is a three year old filly by Not a Single Doubt she was successful in race 2 at Randwick. In Adelaide, the BM70 , saw another of the breed home right on the line, with He's a Moral, scoring for the Weir /Yendal combination . The 5 year old gelding is out of the Marscay mare Highest. In the next a BM 80 we saw Gracena given a peach of a ride by Kayla Crowther. The grey Monaco Consul 4 year old mare has the Not a Single Doubt blood, through her mum, Serene Lass. 

  WATCH:
  SOUTHERN LEGEND dominated from the onset in the 2018 Kranji Mile for trainer Caspar Fownes, ridden to success by @zpurton who produced the goods in two G1 races this evening. Won by 3L to make it HK 1-2, 3rd prize Nova Strike @SGTurfClub @HKJC_Racing #SGRacing #KranjiMile pic.twitter.com/RpZr58nLaa

  — ᴛᴏᴍ ᴡᴏᴏᴅ (@tommentatornz) May 26, 2018

• Lonhro and Commands -- In the Group one 1350m Kingsford Smith Cup at Doomben we finally saw the Godolphin stable, secure a victory, for Impending. The Lonhro colt grabbed, the ever consistent,' Le Romain' right on the line to put a smile on trainer, James Cummings face. The grandson of Octagonal will be retired to stud and continue the male line of the great Eight Carat.   While at Sandown we saw the Eight Carat line score again when the 4yo gelding, Peacock led the field up and put them to the sword, on straightening. He is out of Commands mare Iridescent. The Eight Carat line through Commands on the female side, shines often. 

 Impending retires to Darley's Northwood Stud this coming breeding season with another group 1 and
 in excess of $2.4 million.

• High Chaparrall -- In the group one Queensland Oaks we saw a powerful finish by Youngstar,  just nailing his stablemate, Another Dollar, on the line. This High Chaparrall colt is from the Danehill mare, Star Spangled. The Waller trained and Mcevoy ridden horse continued a great record for the Sadlers Wells stallion in Australian distance races.
• Zoustar -- This first season of starters for this stallion have been nothing short of amazing and I see the Brits were chasing plenty of his stock at the Gold Coast Weanling sales this week. The group 2 Sires at Doomben saw the less fancied of his two sons, Lean Mean Machine, get the inside passage to defeat a fighting Zousian who did a lot of work up front.It was another group victory for the Chris Waller camp. 

  Now that's a workout... LEAN MEAN MACHINE holds on to win the G2 BRC Sires' Produce Stakes! 🏋🏻
  
  Watch the promising 2-year-old ➡️ https://t.co/FWcjCQkz7W#HorseRacing pic.twitter.com/Nj3FRtv567

  — Sky Racing World (@SkyRacingWorld) May 26, 2018

• Fifty Stars -- This Sea The Stars colt could be something special for the Darren Weir camp. Ridden with arrogance by Brad Rawiller at Sandown on saturday in the 1400m 3yo Vobis race. He blew his opposition away in recording his fourth victory from four starts. He now is likely to head up for the Queensland Guineas in a fortnights time. His dam is Swizzle Stick who is by Sadlers Wells so the extra trip will be a positive.

A few other interesting winners were Thorondor a impressive winning 2yo at Morphetville, who is by Fastnet Rock. Self Sense who won the Australian Hurdle. The Star Sense gelding is heading to the Brisbane Cup and could well become the new jumps superstar. Mazzuro the Rip Van Winkle gelding won the Vobis staying event at Sandown said it before and i will say it again. The breed love Sandown.While Bastia gave the breed a double for the day in the BM85 over 1600m at Randwick. Top Stallions who got two or more winners yesterday were Exceed and Excel,Sepoy,Written Tycoon and So You Think.