From Breednet: Thirteen runners with Magic Millions 2yo Classic aspirations made the trip to the Sunshine Coast on Friday for the $75,000 Access Insulation Sunshine Coast QTIS Hcp (1000m), which turned out to be a dogfight between a son and daughter of Aquis Farm’s first season sire The Mission.
From Breednet: The consistent Battledance opened his winning account at start four over 1050m at Rockhampton on Monday to credit his first season sire Invader with his third winner from as many runners.
From Breednet: The Richard and Chantelle Jolly-trained Celtic Vader opened her winning account at her second start in Saturday’s Aramis Plate at Morphettville to credit Aquis Farm’s Invader with his second winner.
From Breednet: Aquis Farm’s Group 1 ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes hero Invader is on the board with his first winner coming in dramatic fashion at Townville on Thursday.
From Breednet: Making his fifth start in seven weeks, the 2yo The Mission gelding Mishani Mental broke through for his first win in Saturday’s Sky Racing Hcp (1100m) at Doomben and banked another $100,000 Aquis bonus for owner/breeder Mike Crooks.
From Breednet: Fifteen two-year-old fillies charged down the Flemington straight in the Group III Darley Ottawa Stakes (1000m) on Oaks Day and it was the unraced division that dominated the finish.
Looking every inch a true professional, the Richard and Chantelle Jolly-trained See You in Heaven went straight as an arrow down the centre of the track to ring up the first stakes-winner for Aquis Farm’s Caulfield Guineas hero Divine Prophet (Choisir).
From Breednet: Aquis Farm’s The Mission became the third first crop stallion to put a winner on the board when the Les Ross-trained Mishani Warfare scored a richly deserved win in the Moet & Chandon Hcp (1200m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday.
A close-up second on debut in the $75,000 Pat O’Shea Stakes at Toowoomba on September 5, Mishani Warfare clocked in third in the $105,000 Widden – Basil Nolan Jnr Plate (1000m) at Eagle Farm on October 9.
From Breednet: It’s a fairly safe bet that, come 2.23pm Saturday, everyone associated with Aquis Farm will be either at Toowoomba racecourse or parked in front of a TV somewhere.
For the first 2YO race of the season in Queensland, Aquis Farm has a close interest in four of the nine runners: each of them by first season sire, The Mission.
From Breednet: HEAT FIVE 855m – 50.22 seconds- Aquis Farm’s Spieth posted his second winner at this set of trials when the Kacy Fodgen trained colt Victory Moments hit the line hard to beat $1,150,000 I Am Invincible colt Zambezi River by a length and three-quarters.
Victory Moments had trial experience having beaten his stablemate Wild Botanica in a heat at the Gold Coast on September 6.
From Breednet: Excitement is building at Camp Aquis following the 2YO heats at Doomben on Tuesday morning – the third lot of juvenile trials in Queensland this season.
Aquis Farm’s first season sire, Spieth, got off to a literal flyer at the Gold Coast last week when three of his youngsters ran 1st, 2nd and 4th in the opening heat, while his ‘freshman’ mate, The Mission, repeated the dose at Deagon the following day: likewise notching up a heat winner, alongside other promising triallists.