Key Largo showed plenty of heart to open his winning account at Tauranga.He was making his fourth appearance for trainers Michael Moroney and Pam Gerard when the patiently handled four-year-old accounted for his rivals over 1600 metres.We bred and sold the son of Ocean Park, who began well to make the running and kicked defiantly after being hotly challenged in the straight to forge clear and win by nearly three lengths.“He was very competitive and I think the key was getting him across to somewhere he was comfortable,” successful rider Kozzi Asano said.“I wasn’t too sure when he jumped out like he did, but no one else wanted to lead and we got an easy sectional from the corner at the 800-metre mark. “That was probably the winning of the race and he was very strong at the end. He ran out a little bit in the straight, but he’s not 100 percent focused yet and he had nothing to chase.“It should help his confidence and I think he’ll handle getting through the grades.”Congratulations to part-owner Jim Bruford who purchased Key Largo from our 2021 draft at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale for $50,000.He is a son of the High Chaparral mare Enjay and she now has a 100 percent record at stud with all three of her foals successful and includes Familia.We raced the daughter of Makfi and she won on four occasions and placed in the G2 Westbury Classic and the G3 Bonecrusher Stakes.A half-sister to the G2 Shannon Stakes winner Rolling Pin, Enjay’s Almanzor filly now named Avoriaz was sold at Karaka last year to Roger James and Robert Wellwood for $240,000 and she has a King’s Legacy yearling filly and is due to foal again to Almanzor.

Diss Is Dramatic has earned a return to stakes company following her convincing victory at Hastings.The Cambridge Stud graduate won her fourth race when she accounted for the Rating 75 metric milers off the back of her encouraging first-up run for fifth on the opening day of the Hawke’s Bay carnival.“She holds a nomination for the G3 Coupland’s Bakeries Mile so we’ll pick a path there and we may look at the G3 Thompson Handicap next,” trainer Lisa Latta said.Diss Is Dramatic has already made her mark at black type level at Riccarton with victories in the G3 War Decree Stakes and the Listed Champagne Stakes.The four-year-old lobbed along in third spot off the fence at Hastings and forged clear for rider Joe Doyle after challenging 200 metres from home.“She won very well after we got into a good spot and she picked up really well,” Doyle said.We bred and sold Diss Is Dramatic and congratulations to Albert Bosma’s Go Racing who purchased her out of our 2021 draft at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale. She is a daughter of the Darci Brahma mare Our Drahma Queen, a half-sister to dual Group 1 winner Suavito, and her Almanzor colt was bought by DGR Thoroughbred Services and John Thompson Racing for $180,000 at Karaka earlier this year.

Ima Brazen One lived up to her rich pedigree with victory at the first time of asking.Our homebred daughter of Brazen Beau looked good in winning a lead-up trial and confirmed that promise with her debut success over 1200 metres at Waverley.Ima Brazen One is prepared by Michael Breslin and sat back from an outside gate in a small field before picking up ground near the turn and the three-year-old lengthened stride impressively in the straight to space her older rivals for rider Kozzi Asano.The filly, who holds a nomination for the G1 New Zealand 1000 Guineas, was purchased by her Awapuni-based trainer for $100,000 out of our class of 2022 at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale. A half-sister to multiple Australian winner Virgo, Ima Brazen One is a daughter of the winning More Than Ready mare Imanana who foaled a colt by Sword Of State this month and will return to our son of Snitzel.Imanana is out of the former top race mare Imananabaa whose five career victories featured the G1 Railway Stakes and the Listed Soliloquy Stakes.