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On a Saturday of Australasian racing, LA’s focus was on outstanding performances from a trio of hardy racemares. The highlight was the inaugural black-type win of the Lohnro mare Beirut in the 1200m Group 3 SAJC Spring Stakes in Adelaide. LA are breeding from Luck y We Leica , a half sister to Beirut’s dam, and her first foal, an unnamed two-year-old daughter of Pins, was runner-up to the subsequent Riccarton winner and highly rated filly La Diosa (So You Think) in her only trial in February....

Per Incanto, New Zealand’s Champion First Season Sire by winners in 2014/15 and second in the Two-Year-Old Sires Premiership, has delivered on the promise of an outstanding debut season to annex two New Zealand three-year-old sires titles in 2015/16. Little Avondale’s exciting young sire prospect has taken out the Champion Three-Year-Old title for individual winners, heading off his nearest challenger Savabeel by three winners, and Champion Second Season Sire by individual winners, comfortably...

Displaying some of the same tough qualities of his grand dam the incomparable Sunline, Per Incanto 3YO Magic Of The Sun ( Per Incanto -Sunstrike by Rock Of Gibraltar) recorded his second win at just his fourth start when taking out the R65 1200m at Ruakaka on Saturday. With just a week to go to complete the season Per Incanto is NZ’s leading sire of individual 3YO winners, three clear of his nearest challenger Savabeel. Progressive 4YO gelding All Roads (Road To Rock-Dancing Daze by Dance...

Nadeem Lass’s ( Nadeem -Danrego by Danzero) narrow defeat in Saturday’s Mypunter.com Handicap (1200m) at Caulfield came with slightly divided loyalties as the winner, Beirut (Lohnro by Leica Light by Hennessy), happens to be closely related to a former LA broodmare, We Leica , dam of this seasons promising Per Incanto three-year-old Director. LA are breeding from We Leica’s daughter Lucky We Leica , a half sister to Beirut’s dam, and her first foal, an unnamed two-year-old daughter of Pins,...

Exciting Per Incanto three-year-old Baba Mama ( Per Incanto -Irish Magic by O’Reilly) recorded consecutive wins with his latest winning effort at Sha Tin on Sunday over 1400m. Once again the Ardsley Stud product impressed, getting back before sustaining a relentless effort from the top of the straight to win comfortably. Lochan Ora ( Towkay -Shivnivas by Centaine) cemented his position towards the top of the betting markets for the Group 3 Winter Cup on 6 August with his fourth consecutive...

Niamh Elizabeth ( Per Incanto -Trove by Paris Opera) capped some good form with a deserved win on Wednesday at Matamata over 1200m; a result which saw Per Incanto increase his lead by three wins over nearest challenger Savabeel for the title of NZ sire for individual three-year-old winners for 2015/16. Per Incanto’s 24 individual winners puts him five and six wins ahead of Showcasing and Swiss Ace respectively amongst second season sires. Per Incanto has been represented by seven individual...

My Quliter (Pins- Sound Lover by Sound Reason), whose win at Saturday’s feature Australian meeting at the Sunshine Coast was his 13 th career success, epitomises all the qualities that have made his dam Sound Lover such a successful broodmare. The LA bred eight-year-old gelding has displayed plenty of durability and class in 66 starts across six seasons of competition for stake earnings bordering on AUS $400,000 including 16 minor placings to go with his afore mentioned wins. Bought from LA’s...

Per Incanto’s only starter to date in Hong Kong, Baba Mama ( Per Incanto -Irish Magic by O’Reilly) opened his account in spectacular fashion at Sha Tin on Sunday. Bred by Masterton’s Ardsley Stud and sold form their 2015 Karaka Ready to Run draft, the 3YO chestnut gelding looked a forlorn hope at the top of the straight before sprinting impressively to land the 1200m event in a good time of 1.09.02. Earlier in the afternoon, Ina Canta’s ( Per Incanto -One Keen Lass by Canny Lad) easy win at...

Riverton’s Kelvin Tyler, one of this seasons big movers amongst the training ranks, has progressive Towkay galloper Lochan Ora ( Towkay -Shivnivas by Centaine) emerging as a genuine hope to give the stable consecutive wins in the Group 3 Winter Cup, going by the four-year-olds comprehensive win in the 1600m Amberly Cup, the feature race on Saturdays Riccarton programme. Timy Tyler, who has gone onto good form for the stable this season, won the corresponding race on the way to a win in the...

The LA bred and former Homebush owned Lanciato (Per Incanto-Surreptitious by O’Reilly) ran an encouraging second at his Sydney debut last Saturday for new connections. Sold following an impressive Te Rapa win on 30 April, where the beaten brigade included fellow 3YO and N.Z Derby place-getter Raghu, trainer Mark Newham had said in the media pre-race that he didn’t expect the wet track and 1400m distance to suit his new charge, believing that the best of Lanciato would be seen when he gets to a...

Sophia Magia ( Per Incanto -Heloise by Towkay ) added to a growing list of late season two-year-old winners for her sire when she scored a strong win on debut over 1000m at Trentham on Saturday. While the Roydon Bergerson trained filly had shown a good deal of promise at the jumpouts on good tracks, there was some doubt she would handle the challenging Trentham track conditions. However the Lowell Goddard bred and owned filly showed natural ability to sit wide but still draw away over the...

Well bred filly Indecision (Per Incanto-Yeah Nah by Kinjite) pictured here as a yearling, lived-up to her trials form with a decisive win on debut...