Stable confidence in Almanzor’s daughter Dawla wasn’t misplaced at Newcastle.Trained by Brad Widdup, the four-year-old had been a resuming winner at Wyong last month and she was expected to produce another bold showing over 1200 metres.Our homebred mare drifted to the back of a small field before she was angled into the clear by apprentice Zac Waddick 350 metres from home and lengthened stride effortlessly to come over the top of her rivals.“She had trained on very well and we asked Zac to ride her quietly,” stable representative Andre Rabbett said.“She’s best left to her own devices early and can then really finish off.”Now the winner of three of her 11 starts, Dawla was purchased out of our 2021 New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale draft for $70,000 by bloodstock agent Phill Cataldo and Honeycomb Bloodstock.She is out of the unraced Lucky Unicorn mare Satisfact, who is a half-sister to the multiple Group 1-winning siblings St Reims and Champagne, and the family of the two-time New Zealand Horse of the Year and multiple top-flight winner Bonneval.

New look Strongbow doubled his winning tally when he outstayed his rivals over 2200 metres at the Sunshine Coast.Sporting blinkers for the first time, the son of Tarzino reacted positively to the addition of headgear to claim his second career victory from a handful of starts for champion trainer Chris Waller.The Cambridge Stud homebred lobbed along at the tail of the small field before rider James Orman urged him forward 700 metres from home and the lightly tried five-year-old finished resolutely to come over the top of his opposition.Congratulations to Albert Bosma’s Go Racing who purchased Strongbow out of our New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale draft in 2020 for $130,000.He is a son of the late Encosta De Lago mare Spring Venture, whose dam Lovetrista won the G2 Waikato Gold Cup and as a famed member of the Eight Carat has an impressive list of highly decorated performers in her pedigree.

Our top-quality son of Hello Youmzain, who boasts an international pedigree, will be bound for Sydney after he was sold for $425,000 during Day Two of New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale.

Lot 438 had an abundance of admirers, but it was the potent combination of Mulcaster Bloodstock and Chris Waller Racing who outstayed their rivals to secure the prize.

The colt is a three-quarter brother to the English stakes winner Never Back Down and her other two foals Super Goldi and Ariki have been successful in Hong Kong and France respectively.

Their dam is the winning Irish-bred Pivotal mare Steer By The Stars, who is a half-sister to the black-type winners Consort and Her World.