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Double Better Than Okay

Backing up from a five and a half length win at Awapuni last start, Yelracm (Towkay-Our Secret) scored again, this time over 990m at New Plymouth on Saturday.

Success in the next race on the Taranaki Racing Club card went the way of the debutant LA bred three-year-old colt City Newton(Elusive City-Double Okay) who dispatched a maiden field packed full of reputations.

City Newton's win was a wonderful way to start the broodmare career of his dam the young Towkay mare Double Okay. From the same family as Eloa and Alamosa, Double Okay has a No Excuse Needed yearling filly going to Karaka in the new year and recently foaled a stunning Savabeel filly. City Newton is the first to hit the track out of a Towkay daughter which bodes extremely well for his career as a sire of broodmares.

While on the subject of hot families, it's been hard to surpass the record of the Sneetch/Gussy Godiva breed of late and the family looked to have unearthed another top liner in the form of Roman Emperor (Montjeu-Gussy Godiva) an impressive Randwick winner last week. Bred by the Ormond family of Hawkes Bay and a $240,000 purchase from our 2007 Karaka Premier Sale draft, Roman Emperor is set to start in this weekends Group One Spring Champion Stakes.

For added measure Black Mamba (Black Minnaloushe-Sneetch) finished third in Sundays prestigious Grade One Yellow Ribbon Handicap at Santa Anita in California.

Gussy Godiva has a No Excuse Needed yearling colt in our 2009 Karaka draft.

Our annual open day here at the farm last Sunday continues to go from strength to strength. Thankfully the weather shined on us again and thanks to those in particular who stayed on for refreshments and helped us christen the renovated Trentham barn.

Long-time LA client Don Gordon had a bigger smile than usual at the open day courtesy of having bred Saturday's $100,000 Ansett Classic winner in Victoria in the form of The Yartz (Carnegie-Mayfair).

Towkay had another winner this last week in Hot or Not (Towkay-Glacier Queen) who scored again in Malaysia over 1400m.