Favanna broke her maiden in fine style at Cranbourne and successful rider Jamie Mott expects our well-related filly to make her mark in better company.Trained by Michael Moroney, the Fastnet Rock three-year-old was quickly into stride to sit in second spot and put the issue beyond doubt when she hit the front 200 metres from home.“She bounced well and I was quietly confident on the corner,” Mott said.“She was good and can definitely go on with it now.”Favanna has been patiently handled and had placed in two of her previous four appearances before breaking through over 1200 metres.We purchased the filly out of breeder B2B Thoroughbreds’ draft at the 2022 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale for A$600,000.She is a daughter of the Love Conquers All mare Savanna Amour, who was a talented performer and won seven races including the G2 Angus Armanasco Stakes and was also successful three times at Group 3 level.Savanna Armour is most notably from the family of the G1 Golden Slipper Stakes winner and successful sire Marauding.

A change of environment has worked wonders for our well-related Not A Single Doubt filly Hinata.The three-year-old easily broke her maiden at Bairnsdale in her first appearance from Te Akau’s Cranbourne stable after below par efforts in four appearances for Eagle Farm trainer Tony Gollan.Hinata sat three back on the fence in her Victorian debut before angling clear 300 metres from home and then surged clear to win comfortably at the end of 1000 metres.“They weren’t going quickly up front and I had plenty of horse under me and she let go with a really good effort,” rider Liam Riordan said.“I only had my first sit on her three weeks ago and she gave me a good feel and the team were confident of a good effort. I was really grateful for the opportunity.”We purchased Hinata for A$425,000 at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale where she was offered by Segenhoe Stud.A half-sister to this season’s Wyong Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner Highness, Hinata is a daughter of the unraced Northern Meteor mare Diana’s Star who is a half-sister to five-time Group 1-winning former Australian Horse of the Year and sire Dissident.

Multiple Group-winning mare Aquacade will begin the next phase of her career later this year.Time has been called on the racing days of Dundeel’s daughter with the five-year-old to become a valuable addition to Cambridge Stud’s broodmare band.Trained at Karaka by Lance Noble for breeder-owners Brendan and Jo Lindsay, Aquacade performed up to the highest level with seven victories and six placings and only twice missed a top five finish from 19 appearances.“She has been fantastic and that’s what we’re here for, to try and develop fillies and mares into broodmares and get black type,” Noble said.“To be able to do that with her has provided a great sense of achievement. She was so consistent and has been retired happy and sound.“She could possibly have raced again next season, but she doesn’t have anything left to prove and will make a lovely broodmare.”Aquacade’s career highlights included successes in the Gr.2 Avondale Cup (2400m) and the Gr.3 Balmerino Stakes (2050m), and gained an elite level credit when third in the Gr.1 Zabeel Classic (2050m).“After last season and rightfully so, she went up in the ratings from the bottom of the handicap up to 57, 58 and 59kg against the younger ones coming through that have the weight advantages, especially over ground,” Noble said.“We made a conscious decision at the beginning of this season to see if we could crack a Group One and she got that Group One placing in the Zabeel.“She was really a 2200-2400m horse and maybe lacked that turn of foot to be a 2000m weight-for-age horse, but she acquitted herself really well in those races against some very good horses.”Aquacade is a daughter of the unraced Sea The Stars mare Forest Of Seas and a pedigree that includes international stakes-winning stayers Sea Of Heartbreak, Self Defense, Degas Art and Puncher Clynch.“She took a bit of time to develop and ran third in the Royal Stakes (Gr.2, 2000m) as a three-year-old and as a four and five-year-old really came to the party,” Noble said.“I am very happy and satisfied that she has been retired safe and well, she hasn’t been over-raced and with her size, temperament and pedigree, she is going to make a lovely broodmare.“Early on, like most young horses, she had her quirks but the more we did with her the more professional she became and was an easy horse to train.” – LOVERACING.NZ News Desk