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Uncle Mo; Squamosa; The Factor; High Chaparral; Gingerbread Man; Kiss And Make Up; Sebring.

• FORMER Coolmore Australia shuttler Uncle Mo sired his 20th stakes winner when his 3YO filly Moqueen won the Listed Dulcify Quality at Randwick.

Moqueen (Uncle Mo x Money Begets Money by Bite The Bullet) is his first stakes winner in Australia and will now head to Melbourne for the spring carnival.

A member of the Anthony Cummings stable, Moqueen was purchased for just $47,000 from the Coolmore Stud draft at the 2015 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.

Moqueen is a half-sister to the stakes performers Beauty Express and Money Rocks.

• SUN Stud’s first season stallion Squamosa, a classy son of Not A Single Doubt, produced a winner with his first runner Kiwi Ida at Riccarton on Saturday.

Kiwi Ida (Squamosa x Empress Ida by Blevic) won over 800m for trainers John and Karen Parsons.

She is the first winner for Empress Ida, who comes from the family of G3 winner Royal Ida (Star Pyramul).

Squamosa, a G3 winner and G1 placed, was an undefeated two-year-old and retired with four wins from only seven career starts.

* SHUTTLE sire The Factor sired his first G1 winner in America on Saturday when the 2YO filly Noted And Quoted won the Chandelier Stakes at Santa Anita.

Noted And Quoted (The Factor x Silver Cub by City Zip) is trained by Bob Baffert and is among seven winners and one stakes performers in The Factor’s first Northern Hemisphere-bred crop.

• THE Chris Waller-trained colt Wine Bush became the 86th stakes winner for the late High Chaparral when he won the Listed UCI Stakes at Flemington on Sunday.

Wine Bush is out of the Flying Spur mare Vinavion and is bound for Victoria Derby start.

• FIRST season sire Gingerbread Man sired his first winner with his first starter Acherner Star in Perth on Saturday.

Archener Star (Gingerbread Man x Morine by Danetime) is out of unraced mare Morine (Danetime) and is a half-brother to G2 WA Guineas winner Man Booker (Discorsi) and the stakes placed Atacama Sky (Scandal Keeper).

Gingerbread Man, who was the winner of five stakes races in Singapore, stands at Yarradale Stud in WA.

• TODMAN Stakes winner Kiss And Make Up will join the stallion roster at Queensland’s Aquis Farm.

The Gai Waterhouse trained More Than Ready colt was the only juvenile to defeat Australian Champion 2YO Capitalist last season when he won the G2 Todman at Randwick.

Kiss And Make Up, a Magic Millions Gold Coast Sale graduate, was bred and offered by John Singleton’s Strawberry Hill Stud and was purchased as a yearling by Waterhouse in 2015.

His dam is the Waterhouse trained Australian champion filly Fashion’s Afield (Redoute’s Choice). Fashions Afield won the G1 ATC Sires Produce Stakes and G1 Flight Stakes and was runner up in the G1 Golden Slipper to Stratum.

Queensland’s Aquis Farm, owned by Hong Kong based Tony Fung, commenced operations at their Canungra base in 2016 and is standing Holy Roman Emperor, Domesday, Benfica and Spill The Beans.

Kiss And Make Up has been retired due to a knee injury and will commence stud duties in 2017.

- More Than Ready’s Golden Slipper winner Sebring sired his 22nd stakes winner on Sunday when the Darren Weir-trained Ulmaan won the Listed Paris Lane Handicap.

Ulmaan is a 5YO son of the Danehill mare Darsini and was a $280,000 yearling purchase by his former trainer Peter Moody.