From Breednet: I Am Invincible stallion Kobayashi is best known for his stream of quick juveniles in Queensland, but he has a promising sprinter on the rise in NSW with the Angela Davies trained gelding Our Kobison returning from a spell to win impressively at Randwick on Saturday to the delight of his big team of owners.
From Breednet: As stallions progress through their stud careers we learn more and more about them and a close look at the third season sires table is well worth consideration given the top 10 sires are all standing in either Australia or New Zealand this spring, albeit some not at the farms where they started.
Queensland’s leading stallion operation, Aquis Stallions, has revealed its roster for the 2024 season.
Aquis Stallions who have launched the careers of some of Australia’s most promising stallions PIERATA, BRAVE SMASH and ROYAL MEETING now announces its new stallion development opportunity in the three-time US Group winner, Officiating.
A complete outcross, deliberately selected by Aquis Stallions following a global headhunting mission to secure a stallion that will excel with the local Queensland broodmare population, with a particular focus on mares by Spirit of Boom, Better Than Ready and Spill The Beans amongst the wider pool of Danehill heavy Queensland mares.
Officiating is the first son of the North American super sire, Blame, to stand in Australia. An Eclipse Champion Racehorse, Breeders’ Cup Classic winner, and three-time Group 1 winner, Blame is an elite stallion who runs at 14% stakes horses to runners as both a sire and a broodmare sire.
Officiating was a racehorse for all seasons, excelling on fast and heavy surfaces with four of his five career victories at stakes level. Officiating would capture the Group 3 Cornhusker at his penultimate outing making it his third high class Group win before farewelling the track in the US$1million Group 2 Charles Town Classic, finishing a neck fourth behind Art Collector, the winner of the Group 1 Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes. This is proper, fast, tough form on the world stage.
“We got our man!” Aquis Stallions Director of Sales, Jonathan Davies enthused. “In a deal we spent most of 2023 putting together in the USA, Officiating is perfect for our local broodmare population, that’s why he’s here and we’ve already seen a glimpse of that through this season’s Group 2 Todman Stakes winner Switzerland being by Snitzel out of a Blame mare”.
“For us, launching stallions and developing value for our stallion shareholders is what it’s about and like Brave Smash and Royal Meeting, Officiating is that tough, sound, outcross stallion that will work and we have no doubt in four to five years’ time he will be sought by all the big studs in the Hunter Valley and Victoria.
Officiating will stand his first season at Aquis Stallions at a fee of $12,500 inc GST.
Officiating is part of an 8-strong Aquis roster in 2024, which is headed by one of Australia’s leading 2-year-old sires Kobayashi.
Please contact our sales team at Aquis Stallions for more information or to arrange a private viewing of our new stallion Officiating or any of the 2024 stallions.
| Stallion Name | 2024 Fee (inc GST) |
| Kobayashi | $15,000 |
| Lean Mean Machine | $13,200 |
| Jonker | $12,500 |
| Officiating (USA) (NEW) | $12,500 |
| Stronger | $9,900 |
| Invader | $8,800 |
| Glenfiddich | $5,500 |
| The Mission | $4,400 |
From TTR AusNZ: The Les Ross-trained Mishani Lily (Kobayashi) has proven to be one of Queensland’s most consistent and tough juveniles this season. Having her eighth start in the Listed Dalrello S. the daughter of Kobayashi, ridden by Vlad Duric, didn’t give an inch to her rivals.
From ANZ Bloodstock: Aquis Farm stallion Kobayashi (I Am Invincible) registered his first individual stakes winner on Saturday when Mishani Lily (2 f ex Sweet Savannah by Written Tycoon) landed the Dalrello Stakes (Listed, 1000m) at Eagle Farm.
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From Breednet: You can’t underestimate a tough, fit filly in good form and the Les Ross trained Mishani Lily is just that and she proved too good for the colts when taking out the Listed BRC Dalrello Stakes (1000m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday to credit her sire Kobayashi with his first stakes-winner.
From ANZ Bloodstock: The Les Ross-trianed Mishani Aloha (Kobayashi) added a third win to her record when she beat Superalloy (Too Darn Hot) by a length and a quarter in the QTIS Jewel 2YO (1200m) at the Gold Coast yesterday.
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From TTR AusNZ: Trainer Les Ross had seven runners in the QTIS 2YO Jewel at the Gold Coast on Saturday, and ended with first and third. With 200 metres left to run the $4.60 favourite Mishani Lily (Kobayashi) hit the front with stablemate Mishani Aloha (Kobayashi) posed beside her on the rail.
From ANZ Bloodstock: In winning a Benchmark 88 yesterday, Our Kobison (Kobayashi) broke the longstanding 1200-metre Rosehill track record when he beat home Dalaalaat (Written Tycoon) by three-and-a-quarter lengths.
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From Breednet: The Les Ross-trained filly Mishani Aloha will be set for the $3,000,000 Magic Millions 2yo Classic at the Gold Coast on January 13 after doing the right thing by the sponsors when breaking her maiden in the Kobayashi At Aquis Hcp (1200m) at Doomben on Saturday.