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Statuario is set for the G2 Alister Clark!

After a fantastic return to the races in the G2 Autumn Stakes, setting some slick late sectionals on inferior ground, and a gallant run in the G1 Australian Guineas, where the pattern was unfortunately against, Statuario is now set for the $500K G2 Alister Clark over 2040M for 3YOs on Saturday!

We look forward to seeing him over 2000M for the first time and are very pleased to have Cox Plate winning jockey John Allen aboard.

He had a good look around The Valley on Tuesday morning. 👀

New Ownership Opportunities!

TR have been very busy this sale season!

We were ecstatic to have secured a lovely D'argento filly for $70K up at the Classic Sale in February, and a strapping Kermadec colt for just $60K at the Premier Sale earlier in the month, both of which you would have seen across our socials!

Today we are happy to announce that we have just secured a stunning Fierce Impact filly from Leneva Park! 🕵️

Both of our available horses are nominated and paid up for VOBIS Silver, VOBIS Gold, VOBIS Platinum, and are eligible for the VOBIS Sires $1M 2YO Showdown & $500K 3YO Guineas!

Both are trained by G1-winning trainers Emma-Lee & David Browne, who recently took out the $1M VOBIS Showdown in emphatic fashion with stable star Mcgaw!

D'argento x Livvy Lass filly secured for $70K at the 2025 Classic Sale and now fully subscribed.

Fierce Impact x Corsaire filly - to be trained by Sparta Racing

COME RACE IN A FILLY WITH RADIO & TV STAR MICK SHARKIE! 🦈

Our man Lenny Russo spotted this stunning brown filly while inspecting the Fierce Impact's out at Leneva Park, and it was love at first sight for the team at TR! Lenny has a 100% winners to starters strike-rate for a return of over $1.2M for our owners whenever he finds one for us out of a farm!

This filly is not only an exceptional type but is also bred on the same extraordinary DEEP IMPACT (JPN)/ANABAA (USA) cross responsible for our first stable star, Shuriken! He showed plenty of class to win on debut, took out the $175K VOBIS Gold Eureka Stockade on Ballarat Cup day, and came from dead last on the turn to finish 4th in the $500K G2 Sandown Guineas. Shuriken was a $15K weanling purchase that had 4 starts for us, securing his ownership group over $156K in prizemoney, and was subsequently sold to HK for $1M. The cross carries an A++ rating on TrueNicks with over 20% stakes-winners to starters on the turf!

CORSAIRE was an outstanding 2YO, winning the Listed Merson Cooper Stakes on debut, finished 2nd in the G3 Blue Diamond Preview F, and when resuming as a 3YO took out the Listed Quezette Stakes at Caulfield. Dam of 6 to race for 4 individual winners. Half-sister to the Woodlands Stakes winner, DEBONAIRLY, and Our Songbird, dam of close relation and 2nd placegetter in the 2024 G2 Danehill Stakes, Reserve Bank, who is set to line up in the $1M G1 William Reid Stakes on Saturday! There could be a HUGE pedigree update incoming! 🎯

Lindsay Park have the full 2YO sister that has just made her return to the stable for her second preparation and by all reports is going super!

Sharkie and the team at Leneva Park have retained ownership in the filly, and look forward to cheering her home with the ownership group! The filly is currently halfway through her education process, breaking in at Leneva Park, and will soon head out to the paddock for a well-earned break.

***SHARE PRICING & PDS PENDING***

1% - $600.00

2.5% - $1,500.00

5% - $3,000.00 

10% - $6,000.00

Kermadec x Exceedingly French colt - to be trained by Sparta Racing

This well-balanced and very attractive colt really struck the eye of the team at TR and our bloodstock agent, Lenny Russo of Bluegrass Bloodstock at Premier, and is set to be trained by G1-winning trainers and good pals Emma-Lee & David Browne of Sparta Racing.

Lenny has only ever had two KERMADEC's make his final shortlist prior to this colt, and they both ended up G1 winners TUVALU and MONTEFILIA!

This colt has 2YO written all over him, being out of the Listed 2YO St Albans Stakes winner, EXCEEDINGLY FRENCH, and half to the G2 Moonee Valley Fillies Classic and 2YO VOBIS Gold Elvstroem Classic winner, LA FALAISE. The St Albans Stakes will be run and won this weekend at The Valley!

This colt is bred on the same exceptional cross as G1 Toorak Handicap winner TUVALU, and a whopping 20% stakes-winners to starters, including dual G1-winning Champion 2YO VANDEEK (GB), and recent Listed La Teste Stakes winner HOLGUIN (GB).

SHARE PRICING

1% - $930.00

2.5% - $2,325.00

5% - $4,650.00 

10% - $9,300.00

For more info on this colt, check him out on our website by clicking here.

Racenet picked him out as their horse of the sale! Click the image below to check out the article.

Papal Army knocks off his maiden at Yarra Valley!

Papal Army rounded out his first racing preparation with a win at Yarra Valley!

He is now enjoying some well-earned R&R at Sparta Racing's farm with 7-1-2-0  on the form guide, and over $56K in prize money! 

Nuggies goes close to her first metro victory at huge odds!

Nuggies backed up in the 888M sprint at The Valley after knocking off her maiden at Hanging Rock on Australia Day!

She jumped well to land on pace from an inside draw, and led to the turn where she was headed by the very shorted priced favourite, Spier. To her credit, after doing all the work up front, she knuckled down and gave it her all, only to be run down late to finish a very gallant 2nd.

She is now out in the paddock for a nice long break with an aim to get her back to the races late Spring/early Summer.

Updates

The D'argento x Livvy Lass filly is a tick under two weeks away from heading off to the breaker for her first educational preparation.

Our most recent purchase, the Fierce Impact x Corsaire filly, is just about to wrap up her breaking in at Leneva Park and will soon head out to the paddock for a well-earned break.

Our Kermadec x Exceedingly French colt is now halfway through his post sale break and will head off to the breakers in a couple of weeks.

Nuggies has just wrapped up her first proper racing preparation and is now out in the paddock enjoying a nice long break.

Papal Army (NZ) has now been in the paddock for a tick over 5 weeks and has continued to further grow and develop nicely.

Paulartes has been in work for a tick over 7 weeks and is nearing a jump out. She is the first that we have sent down to Tasmania to pick up a win, and she is looking very good for another fantastic result or two in the coming months!

Pinero will head to a grass gallop on course proper at Ballarat next week and then off to a jump out in the weeks that follow. She has always shown plenty back at the stable and we look forward to seeing her back at the races.

Rambition will also head to a grass gallop on course proper at Ballarat next week and isn't far away from a jump out. He showed plenty of ability last prep but hadn't quite worked out the caper. We opted to give him more time and have been rewarded as he has developed into a lovely horse.

Statuario has his first start at The Valley this weekend in the Alister Clark. We look forward to seeing him out to 2000M for the first time, and are very pleased to have Cox Plate winning jockey John Allen booked to ride.

Highlights

Sparta Racing take out the $1M VOBIS Showdown!

Huge congratulations to Emma-Lee & David Browne and the entire team at Sparta Racing for taking out the $1M VOBIS Showdown over the weekend!

You won't find a harder working stable that are as eager to get results for their clients, and so passionate for the welfare of all of their horses.

Fantastic to see so many familiar faces in the ownership group that are involved in horses with TR, and long may the celebrations continue!