From TDN: Group 1-producing sire Aclaim (Ire) will shuttle to Aquis Farm in 2022 and he will stand his first season for a fee of $24,200 (inc GST).
Trained by Martyn Meade on behalf of Dermot Farrington and Queensland-based farm Canning Downs, Aclaim won seven of his 15 starts, making a successful debut in a 1000-metre contest in a Kempton maiden in the December of his 2-year-old season.
From Racing.com: One of Britain’s most exciting young stallions will shuttle to Australia in 2022, with Aquis announcing Aclaim as the latest addition to its stallion roster on Thursday.
From ANZ Bloodstock: Group 1-winning European sprinter and exciting northern hemisphere sire Aclaim (Acclamation) will shuttle to Aquis Farm in Queensland this year, three years after he was initially slated to do so.
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From Breednet: Aquis Farm has announced it will stand exciting Group I winning sprinter and 2021 Champion British Based First Season Sire, Aclaim, this spring.
Winning the Group 1 Prix de la Foret in France in his final start at 4, Aclaim retired to the National Stud in England having been unbeaten as a 2YO, a multiple stakes winner at 3 and, a Group 1 and Group 2 winner at his last two outings.
From ANZ Bloodstock: Aquis Farm stallion Invader (Snitzel) moved into joint third on the list of leading first season sires by winners when his son Nishikado (2 g ex Mediation by Azamour) became the sire’s eighth individual winner of the season yesterday.
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From Breednet: A flying start to the day for Aquis Farm’s first crop sires Kobayashi, Invader, and Jukebox with Midnight In Tokyo (Kobayashi) winning at Randwick, Nishikado (Invader) making a winning debut at Gawler, and Jukebox Flyer (Jukebox) a fighting second at Caulfield.
From Thoroughbred News: Jockey Sam Clipperton did not want to be at the rear of the field entering the main straight on the $5.50 favourite Midnight In Tokyo in the $150,000, Home Affairs At Coolmore Handicap (1100m) at Randwick on Saturday, but he need not have worried as the filly came home well for the win.
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From Breednet: Aquis Farm’s Kobayashi is the sire of smart filly Midnight in Tokyo, who powered home from back in the field to win the open juvenile event at Randwick on Saturday.
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From ANZ Bloodstock: Widden Stud stallion Jukebox (Snitzel) sired his fifth individual southern hemisphere winner, from just 12 runners when the Justin Bowen-trained Play My Song (2 f ex Anastasia Winni by Strada) got the better of favourite Secret Revolution (Russian Revolution) to win a 1000-metre two-year-old handicap at Muswellbrook yesterday.
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From Breednet: Showing the experience earned from three previous starts, the Justin Bowen-trained Play My Song overpowered the favourite Secret Revolution in a hotly contested 1000m 2yo handicap at Muswellbrook on Friday to credit Jukebox with his fifth winner and fourth in Australia.