In-form mare Apostrophe left it late at Te Rapa before she arrived in the nick of time to add the G2 Travis Stakes to her record.The daughter of our late stallion star Tavistock settled back in the field before improving near the turn and she produced a sustained finish for rider Masa Hashizume to get in the deciding stride at the end of 2000 metres.“That was a tremendous effort and half-way down I didn’t think she could win, but she often hits a flat spot and then sprints again,” said Roger James, who prepares the mare with Robert Wellwood.Apostrophe was coming off a previous victory in the G3 Manawatu Breeders’ Stakes and her latest success has further boosted her future broodmare value for the Inglewood Partnership.“She’s done what every breeder wants and she’s rising seven now so this could be her last run,” James said.“All credit to the staff, she’s high maintenance.”Apostrophe was bred by Greg Perry's Greenwich Stud and sold through Cambridge Stud’s draft at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale with James and Wellwood signing the ticket at $60,000.She is a daughter of the Cape Cross mare Cape South whose pedigree features our Highly Recommended mare Polygon, winner of the G2 Royal Stakes and the G3 Eulogy Stakes.

Ima Brazen One has a rich and speedy pedigree and she again put that to winning use at Otaki where she blitzed her age group rivals over 1100 metres.The three-year-old daughter of Brazen Beau was far too slick for her opposition in the hands of Craig Grylls to add to her burgeoning record.“She’s got a heap of ability and she’s still got to learn to harness it,” trainer Mike Breslin said of our home-bred filly.“She’s a work in progress and it’s quite good to see her win like that when she’s not doing things 100 percent right.”Ima Brazen One showed gate speed to cross and lead from the outside barrier and turned on the afterburners 250 metres from home to bolt home by 3.3l.“Once she learns to relax, I can see her getting 1600 metres further down the track,” Breslin said.Ima Brazen One’s sole defeat in three appearances came when fifth at Trentham in her resuming run earlier this month.“She was above herself and was just too fresh,” Breslin said.He purchased the filly out of our class of 2022 at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale for $100,000.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 last season and is back in foal to our Group 1-winning son of Snitzel.

Well-related three-year-old Manzor Magic displayed his staying potential when he downed his older middle-distance rivals at Pinjara.Congratulations to Peter Morley’s Western Australian-based syndication company Belhus Racing Stables, who purchased our homebred son of Almanzor at Karaka in 2022.Manzor Magic was part of our draft at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Weanling Sale at Karaka and sold for $30,000.He subsequently failed to meet his reserve when reoffered as a yearling, but showed he had a bright future when he capped off a consistent run of form with victory for trainers Grant and Alana Williams.The gelding came from the tail of the field for a comfortable win at the end of 2000 metres under jockey Chris Parnham. Manzor Magic is out of the winning Zabeel mare Sunset Magic, who is in foal to Sword Of State, and she is from the family of six-time Group 1 winner and former Australian Horse of the Year.