Sea Poem provided a significant pedigree update to a youngster in our draft at New Zealand Bloodstock’s upcoming National Yearling Sale.

We bred the daughter of Pierata, who was an impressive debut winner at Geelong and her half-brother by Sword Of State will be offered as Lot 223 at Karaka.

The Ben, JD and Will Hayes-trained Sea Poem was sent out favourite in her 1200 metre assignment and the money proved on the mark with the filly a comfortable winner under Blake Shinn.

“Blake found a nice spot for her and I could see she was travelling really well on the corner,” stable representative Rahis Baig said.

“It was a good result, we’re very happy and she’s a beautiful looking filly.”

Sea Poem settled in fourth spot before she improved wide near the turn and held a strong gallop to score after hitting the front 300metres from home.

“She did everything right and I presented her a bit early when the pace came out of the race and she did a good job,” Shinn said.

Sea Poem was purchased for A$160,000 by Lindsay Park and Jamie McCalmont out of our draft at the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale.

She is the second winner for the Street Cry mare Prose Poem, who was purchased on our behalf by agent John Foote for 65,000gns at the Tattersalls Mares’ Sale.

A sister to multiple stakes winner Fencing, she is a daughter of the G1 Frenck Oaks winner Latice and the family of dual Group 1winner and sire Lawman.

Prose Poem produced another colt by Sword Of State last season before visiting our new stallion Chaldean.

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Tavistock’s son Actaeon starred in a new role at Moonee Valley where he made a winning debut over ground and set up possible stakes opportunities.

His three previous victories had come up to a mile and the way he ran out 2040 metres at the first time of asking for trainer Symon Wilde has brought the G3 Hobart Cup and G3 Launceston Cup into play.

“That would be perfect for him, he’s going really well,” winning rider Daniel Stackhouse said.

Acteon sat off a slow early pace before circling runners tobe in front at the to of the straight and the five-year-old powered clear towin by a widening three and three-quarter lengths.

“He’s been racing well and I wanted to get going early on him to build into it and he was really tough,” Stackhouse said.

We sold the son of Tavistock for $30,000 on behalf of breeder Andari Ltd to Wilde, Pinhook International and John White Bloodstock.

Out of the King Of Kings mare Cinnadream, he is a brother to the G2 Championship Stakes winer Tavidream from the family of two-time Group 1winner and sire Tarzino.

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Matsu Victor has turned his form around for a boil over victory in Hong Kong.

The son of U S Navy Flag was unplaced when returning from a break and showed the benefit of that outing when he successfully stepped up to 1600 metres at Sha Tin to score at odds of 45-1.

Ridden by Keith Yeung, he is prepared by Francis Lui and has doubled his winning tally after breaking his maiden in September.

We bred Matsu Victor and sold him for $160,000 at NewZealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale in 2022.

He is a son of the Zabeel mare Lazaan, who is back in foalto U S Navy Flag, and is a half-brother to four winners, including the stakesperformer Divine Power.

Lazaan is a daughter of the three-time Group 1 winner Lashed, also the dam of dual winner and multiple black type placegetter Marchand, and the family of the Group 1-winning half-siblings Shogun Lodge, Singing The Blues and Referral.

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