Trixton produced the winners of both finals of the New Jersey Sire Stakes for three-year-old trotting fillies at The Meadowlands on Friday night (July 3).
Competing in the $160,000 final, Ab’sattitudexpress took full advantage of a box seat trail to score by 1-3/4 lengths in a new lifetime mark of 1:52.4. The filly has won four of her six starts and $111,000 in stakes.
Play Trix On Me, who started from the outside gate, settled down second last before storming home to win the $128,000 final in 1:53.6.
A dual NYSS champion, the filly has won seven out of nine for $204,850.
Brilliant Royalty For Life filly Warrawee Vicky, last year’s Ontario Sires Stakes two-year-old points leader, returned to the winning list in a $73,067 division of the OSS Gold Series at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Thursday night (July 2).
The filly led from go to whoa in 1:54.4.
Trixton has jumped to the top of this year’s North American 3YO trotting sires’ premiership, while Royalty For Life is sixth.
The Trixton two-year-old colt Utopia made an auspicious debut at Shepparton on Thursday (July 2), winning by an amazing 82.5 metres at a track record 2:02.6 rate. Bred by Nick Hooper and Paul Graydon, the colt is out of a Muscles Yankee mare, Gluteus Maximus, and thus carries a 3×2 cross to Muscles Yankee.
Lucky Chucky took the siring honours at Albion Park on Friday night (July 3) with a winning double. Aurora, a three-year-old filly, won a heat of the Springboard Series to make it four on end, while The Reaper, a four-year-old gelding, overcame a 30 metre handicap to post win No. 6.
To complete a big week, the Wishing Stone four-year-old Phoebe Onyx notched his fourth success at Addington, New Zealand on Friday night (July 3), carving out a last 800 in 58.7.
Trixton, Royalty For Life, Lucky Chucky and Wishing Stone are members of the Stallions Australasia frozen semen roster.
By Peter Wharton