Trainer parts with $330,000 for a colt from the Ohukia Lodge draft.

Race experience proved a benefit for Golden Sand Steed when he broke through for his initial win in the $65,000 Restricted Maiden over 1000m on the Polytrack on Sunday.

When April’s Knight got held up while desperately searching for a rails run in the $75,000 Kranji Stakes C New Zealand Racing Board Trophy (2400m) on Sunday, it probably felt like déjà vu to jockey Joao Moreira.

Noted sire Falvelon, a dual winner of the Doomben10,000, did not have a runner in the 2012 renewal of the G1 event last Saturday but achieved consolation when his son Excellantes enhanced his rising stature as a sprinter with a Listed victory on the program in the Chief De Beers Handicap.

Ad Valorem shot up the second crop sire table when his three-year-old colt Free Wheeling recorded a commanding victory in the Listed Hawkesbury Guineas on Saturday.