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Reset; Tough Speed; Lonhro; Stratum; Al Maher; Manhattan Rain; Monsun; Aquanita Racing; Flying Spur; Commands; Lookin At Lucky; Strategic Maneuver.

• ZABEEL’s son Reset sired his 30th stakes winner when exciting classic contender Hauraki won the G2 Tulloch Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday.

Hauraki (Reset x Youthful Presence by Dehere) is a half brother to the G1 winner Kidnapped (Viscount), G2 winner Academus (Lonhro) and the Listed winner Deledio (Testa Rossa).

He is set to represent Godolphin in the G1 ATC Australian Derby at Randwick next Saturday.

Hauraki’s win put Reset back on top of the Victorian sires’ table from Bel Esprit.

His dam Youthful Presence has an unraced two-year-old Bernardini filly named Vernal, foaled a Sepoy filly last spring and is now in foal to Lonhro.

• TASMANIAN star Banco Mo sent his earnings soaring past $760,000 when he scored a dominant win in Saturday's Mornington Cup to clinch a berth in the 2015 Caulfield Cup.

Prepared by Scott Brunton, Banco Mo, a son of Tough Speed, was purchased by owner Mandy Gunn for just $2100 at the 2009 Magic Millions Tasmanian Yearling Sale.

Banco Mo is the sole winner to date for the winning Mukddaam mare I Gotcha Babe, a daughter of a winning half sister to stakes performer Le Melezin from the family of stakes winners Rasputin's Revenge, Marist Lady, Arietta, Bandoo Bay, Ontonic and Shades of March.

• A filly owned by Sheikh Hamdan became the first Northern Hemisphere by champion Australian sire Lonhro at Kempton Park in the UK.

Rah Rah (Lonhro x Rahiyah by Rahy) won a Maiden Fillies Stakes by three and three quarter lengths to put the son of Octagonal on the map in Europe.

In Sydney Generalife, a son of Lonhro, recorded his third stakes success and his first at Group level in the G3 Star Kingdom Stakes at Rosehill.

Generalife is out of the stakes-placed Redoute’s Choice mare Albaicin, a half-sister to Listed winner Celebrity Girl whose first foal, a filly by Sepoy, sold for $850,000 at the Magic Millions on the Gold Coast in January.

Lonhro is the sire of 51 stakes winners including six G1 winners.

• CLASSY Stratum colt Takedown notched his third consecutive victory in the G3 Schweppervescence TL Baillieu Handicap at Rosehill on Saturday.

The first Sydney winner for trainer Gary Moore since his return from Macau, Takedown had won the G3 Black Opal Stakes in Canberra at his previous start and has three wins and a placing from just four starts and prizemoney topping $280,000.

He is the second winner for the stakes-placed Zafonic mare Apamea, who has yearling filly by Redoute’s Choice that will be offered by Widden Stud at the 2015 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.

Takedown is one of 28 stakes-winners by Golden Slipper winner Stratum.

• AL Maher filly Delicacy maintained her supremacy as Perth's leading 3YO filly with a dominant win in the G3 WA Oaks at Ascot on Saturday.

The Oaks came after her wins in the Listed WATC 1000 Guineas and Listed Natasha Stakes at her two previous outings.

The sixth WA Oaks winner for her owner-breeder Bob Peters, Delicacy has won seven times over distances from 1000m to 2400m and has only once finished out of the first three placings in 11 career starts with earnings in excess of $600,000.

Delicacy is the second significant classic filly by Al Maher from a Scenic mare. His Listed winner Becerra waso runner-up in the G1 Queensland Oaks.

• MANHATTAN Rain filly Ondina became the third stakes winner for her sire when she won the Listed Laelia Stakes at Morphettville on Saturday.

Manhattan Rain, a G1 winning son of Encosta De Lago standing at Arrowfied Stud, is also the sire of stakes winners Moonovermanhattan and Crafty.

Ondina (Manhattan Rain x Mermaid Island by Mujadil) is trained in Sydney by Gai Waterhouse and was ridden by NSW jockey Blake Spriggs.

Ondina was a $40,000 purchase by Star Thoroughbreds from the Tyreel Stud draft at the 2013 Magic Milions National Yearling Sale.

She now boasts three wins from six starts and will stay in Adelaide to contest the G1 Australasian Oaks at Morphettville.

Her dam Mermaid Island is a winning stakes placed half sister to Irish 1000 Guineas winner Nightime.

Mermaid Island is also the dam of the multiple Moonee Valley winner and stakes placed Holy Cow (Teofilo).

Manhattan Rain is the sire of seven stakes performers from his first two crops. He has 25 winners and $1.3 million this season alone.

• EUROPEAN import Excess Knowledge won the G3 Doncaster Prelude at Rosehill on Saturday to become the 106th stakes winner for the late German champion sire Monsun.

Monsun died in 2012 at the age of 22. Excess Knowledge is a 5YO entire from the Dansili mare Quenched.

He was the first leg of an imported double at Rosehill for Gai Waterhouse completed when Pornichet (Vespone) won the G3 Neville Sellwood Stakes.

Pornichet is set to back in next Saturday’s G1 Doncaster Mile but plans are uncertain for Excess Knowledge.

“Pornichet will definitely run in the Doncaster,” Waterhouse said.“I’ve won seven Doncasters and going back from 2000 metres to 1600 is the right formula.”

• UNDER The Louvre (Excellent Art x Barcelona Girl) capped a big 24 hours for trainer Aquanita Racing and trainer Robert Smerdon when he won the Listed Hareeba Stakes at Mornington on Saturday.

A $50,000 purchase for Aquanita Racing from the 2012 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale from the Kanangra Stud draft, the four-year-old took his earnings to in excess of $480,000 for his owners and trainer Robert Smerdon.

On Friday night the Smerdon-trained Fontein Ruby (Turffontein x Charming Ruby) won the Listed Alexandra Stakes at Moonee Valley.

Fontein Ruby was bred and sold by Blue Gum Farm for $50,000 at the 2013 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale to Aquanita Racing and has now earned her connections over $870,000.

• FLYING Spur three-year-old Boom Time burst into contention for the WA Derby with a brilliant win in Saturday's Listed Melvista Stakes at Ascot.

A graduate of the 2013 Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale, Boom Time went into Saturday's race as a maiden but was previously third in the Listed JC Roberts Stakes.

Boom Time is the 94th individual stakes winner for his sire, Danehill's Golden Slipper winning son Flying Spur.

He is from the seven time winner Bit Of A Ride, a three time city winner who is a three quarter sister to the G2 winner and multiple G1 placegetter Scandinavia, the dam of Magnus, Wilander, Scandiva and Arctic Flight as well as the dams of superstars Black Caviar and All Too Hard.

• THE Listed Manihi Classic at Morphettville on Saturday was taken out by the speedy Commands mare The Messina Nymph.

The Messina Nymph (Commands x Charybdis by Royal Academy) is trained by Tony McEvoy for Pipeliner Bloodstock and was $30,000 purchase from the 2012 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale from the draft of Widden Stud.

She has won five of her nine starts and has earned over $200,000 in prize money, being the 66th stakes winner by Danehill’s late son Commands.

A half-sister to champion Singapore sprinter Why Be, The Messina Nymph is one of six winners from Charybdis, a Roya Academy daughter of the stakes-winner Balm in Gilead.

• SATURDAY’S Newcastle meeting marked Australian firsts for former Coolmore shuttler Lookin At Lucky and Victorian-based stallion Strategic Maneuver.

The Anthony Cummings trained Rhode Assassin (Lookin At Lucky x Rhode Island Red by Tale Of The Cat) was the first Australian-bred winner for the stallion who is standing at Ashford Stud in Kentucky.

Royal Academy’s son Strategic Maneuver sired his first winner when the Gooree Stud homebred Tempt Me Not (Stargetic Maneuver x Ganda by Encosta De Lago) won her maiden over 900m.

Strategic Maneuver stands at Bullarook Park Stud in Victoria.