Mahalangur an exciting prospect
Waikato Stud graduate Mahalangur has continued his impressive march through the city grades in Sydney.
He won for the fourth time from 12 starts when a dominant last-start winner at Randwick at the weekend.
The four-year-old is trained by John, Michael and Wayne Hawkes for prominent owners Max Whitby and Neil Werrett.
Mahalangur was bought out of the Matamata farm’s 2016 Premier Sale draft for $200,000.
He is a son of O’Reilly and the Pivotal mare But Beautiful, who was successful three times up to 1600 metres in England.
She is a half-sister to the dual European stakes winner Ayrad and a well-performed European family.
It features the former champion sprinter Stravinsky, who was subsequently such an Australasian influence at stud.
Ardrossan’s Group 1-placed darling wins A$300,000 Gr.2 HKJC World Pool Wakeful Stakes
Second and fourth in 1600m Group 1 races in her two previous starts since being purchased privately by OTI Racing and stepping out in Australia under Chris Waller’s racing banner, De Armas (Ardrossan) stepped up in distance at Flemington on Saturday and opened her Australian account in style in the A$300,000 Gr.2 HKJC World Pool Wakeful Stakes (2000m) on Derby Day.
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The Corner with Garry Chittick
The writing of my Corner started many years ago, motivated by an irritation that I felt needed scratching. It was never my intention to make my commentary regular; neither did I intend to reinvent the direction of racing administration. It is both disappointing and ironical that what should be a simple, straightforward business provides a regular need for comment.
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