Farnan has surged to the top of the Australian first season sires’ table after his daughter Romance Calling posted an impressive win at Northam on Thursday.
Prepared by Luke Fernie, the promising filly became Farnan’s 13th individual juvenile winner of the season, handling older rivals over 1300 metres in what was her third racetrack appearance.
Romance Calling, purchased for just $25,000 by Peter Morley’s Belhus Racing Stables at the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale, is out of Regal Romance, a two-year-old placegetter and half-sister to Group 3 winner Faraway Town.
Farnan, who stands at Kia Ora Stud, now sits alongside Ole Kirk with 13 two-year-old winners this season and is set to claim the freshman sires’ premiership by prizemoney, ahead of Coolmore’s Wootton Bassett.
The Golden Slipper-winning stallion has already produced standout performers like North England, King Of Pop and Recuperato, helping push his progeny earnings past the $2 million mark.
Across the Tasman, Cambridge Stud’s shuttle stallion Hello Youmzain notched his eighth winner from his first southern hemisphere crop when Azarax made a successful debut at Wyong.
Trained by John O’Shea and Tom Charlton, Azarax was snapped up for $190,000 at the New Zealand Bloodstock Karaka Yearling Sale by Laurel Oak Bloodstock and delivered immediately with a polished performance to start his racing career.
