Previously a multiple Guineas winner in New Zealand as a three-year-old, Palmetto broke through for a first Australian victory in Saturday’s A$150,000 Clarendon Tavern Benchmark 88 Handicap (1500m) at Hawkesbury.
The unreserved dispersal of the late Sir Patrick Hogan’s bloodstock is now live on Gavelhouse Plus with weanlings, yearlings, racing propositions and broodmares making up the 31 Lot catalogue.
The Chrissy Bambry-trained Chantilly Lace ran out an impressive winner of the Palamountains Animal Nutrition 2YO 1200 at Wanganui on Thursday and in the process provided her sire, US Navy Flag, with his first southern hemisphere winner.
