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Elusive City; Stryker; Sebring; Wanted; Lonhro; Exceed And Excel; Falvelon; Vespone; Darci Brahma; Buffalo Man; Dalakhani; Oasis Dream; Cape Cross; Dubawi; Bernardini; Majesticperfection; Ghostzapper.

• THE Darren Weir-trained mare Atlantis Dream made a successful step into stakes company for the first time in the G2 Queen Of The South Stakes at Morphettville on Saturday to become the 36th black type winner for her sire Elusive City.

The 6YO Atlantis Dream (Elusive City x Contemplate by Dream Well) could return to Morphettville on May 16 for the Listed Centaurea Stakes.

“It’s very valuable for her,” Weir said. “She’s done a super job after an unfortunate start in her early days with injury, a wind operation and all sorts of things.”

Atlantis Dream, purchased by agent John Foote for NZ$10,000 at the 2010 New Zealand Bloodstock Festival Yearling Sale, has had only 14 starts for six wins and prize money of $296,137.

Her unraced dam Contemplate has also produced the winners My Glory (Elusive City) and El Gaucho (Don Eduardo).

Contemplate is a half-sister to the stakes-placed pair Astaire (Groom Dancer) and Ascolini (Bertolini) from the G3 Ascona (Grosvenor).

Third dam Aminona (Oakville) produced 12 winners from 12 foals to race including the stakes winners St Gallen (Decies) and Andermatt (Amalgam). The family includes G2 winer and G1 placed Bound For Earth (Northern Meteor).

• THE Lee and Anthony Freedman-trained filly Strykum became the fifth winner and first stakes winner from the first crop of the Fastnet Rock sire Stryker at Morphettville on Saturday.

Strykum (Stryker x Dinkum Star by Happy Giggle Rock) won the Listed Queen Adelaide Stakes beating G3 winner Thurlow.

Strykum was bred by Three Bridges Thoroughbreds and was sold for $21,000 at the 2013 Inglis Great Southern Weanling Sale.

Stryker’s first crop also includes the stakes placed pair She Is Stryking and Miss Loren.

Strykum’s weanling full sister has been entered in the 2015 Inglis Great Southern Bloodstock and Weanling Sale by Ballarto Lodge.

Stryker is one of three sons by Fastnet Rock among the top ten by earnings on the 2014-15 First Season Sires’ list.

Rothesay, standing in Queensland, Hinchinbrook (NSW) and Stryker (Victoria) are adding to the infant sire dynasty being established by Fastnet Rock.

His presence will get a further boost in 2015-16 through the first crop 2YOs by his newer stallion sons Foxwedge and Smart Missile, who have started their stud careers with big books of quality mares.

• SEBRING is keeping in touch with Fastnet Rock in the race for champion sire honours, adding his 13th stakeswinner to his record at Toowoomba on Saturday.

Sebring’s 2YO filly Typing (Sebring x My Type by Zabeel) took out the Listed Dalrello Stakes, keeping Sebring in second place some $400,000 in arrears of Fastnet Rock on the general sires table by prizemoney.

Sebring has only three crops of racing age led by his G1 stars Dissident and Criterion.

Typing, a $20,000 Magic Millions National Yearling Sale purchase, is trained by Stuart Kendrick and was having her fourth career start after two earlier placings.

She is one of three winners from My Type, an unraced half-sister by Zabeel to G3 placegetter Sugar Babe from the G2 winner On Type.

A yearling full sister to Typing was sold at the Magic Millions earlier this year for $90,000.

• FASTNET Rock’s multiple G1 winner Wanted sired his first stakes winner when the Mick Price-trained 2YO gelding Dead Or Alive won the Listed Oaklands Plate at Morphettville on Saturday at just his second start.

Dead Or Alive is out of the Daylami mare Sun Lane.

• LONHRO recorded a black type double with winners in Australia and South Africa on Saturday.

Octagonal’s champion son sired his 52nd stakes winner when 2YO colt Black Vanquish (Lonhro x Ponton Flyer by Flying Spur) won the Listed Thoroughbred Club Cup at Caulfield.

In South Africa Lonhro’s quality 3YO The Conglomerate recorded his second Group success with an easy win in the G2 KRA Guineas at Greyville.

Now the winner of five of his eight starts, The Conglomerate has previously won the G3 Politician Stakes.

Bred by Tyreel Stud, The Conglomerate is from Canny Lad’s dual G1 winner Republic Lass, who has produced five winners from five runners. Republic Lass produced a filly foal by Sepoy last spring.

Black Vanquish, a winner at Flemington at his second start two weeks earlier, is a homebred for the Whittenbury family’s Barree Pastoral Company.

He is out of the G2-winning Flying Spur mare Ponton Flyer, making him a full brother to stakes winner Minnesota Shark and G1-placed Miss Octopussy.

• THE Peter Moody-trained Thermal Current recorded his second G3 victory with a comfortable win in the DC McKay Stakes at Morphettville on Saturday.

A homebred for Contract Racing, Thermal Current is by Exceed And Excel from the stakes-winning Twining mare Soaressa, a half-sister to Listed winners Assertive Eagle and Impressive Eagle.

• HONEST sprinter Mr Favulous became the tenth stakes winner for his Queensland-based sire Falvelon when he won the Listed Weetwood Handicap at Toowoomba on Saturday.

Mr Favulous is a 6YO gelding by Falvelon (Alannon) from Miss Glamour Puss (Lion Hunter).

• THE Gai Waterhouse-trained import Pornichet showed his class to win the Toowoomba Cup on Saturday for his third win in Australia.

Pornichet was purchased privately by Waterhouse after he was passed in at the inaugural Goffs London Sale in the UK last year,

The 4YO entire is by Vespone from Porza by Septieme Ciel and has now won six of his 15 career starts.

• NO MORE TEARS, a first starter by Darci Brahma, won the Listed Equine Stakes at Te Rapa on Saturday.

Trained by Stephen Marsh for Albert Bosma and his Go Racing syndicate, No More Tears is from the Minardi mare Ocean Of Tears and was purchased by Bosma for NZ$75,000 from the Ardsley Stud draft at the New Zealand Bloodstock Select Yearling Sale.

The filly is the best-performed of two winners from Ocean Of Tears, a half-sister to the G2 winner Hips Don’t Lie (Stravinsky), dam of this season’s GoldenSlipper Stakes third Lake Geneva (Fastnet Rock).

• THE El Pardo stallion Buffalo Man continues to make inroads in New Zealand wher54e he sired his second stakes winner on Saturday.

The previously stakes placed 2YO filly Peach Cove (Buffalo Man x Tennisciti Belle by Citidancer) won the Listed Champagne Stakes at Riccarton becoming the second stakes winner for Buffalo Man from his first two crops racing in New Zealand.

Former shuttle sire Ishiguru (Danzig) also added a new NZ stakeswinner when the previously stakes placed 6YO mare Sucre (Ishiguru x Carrie by Danasinga) won the Listed Great Easter Stakes at Riccarton. She is the ninth stakes winner by Ishiguru, who died in 2009.

• SECOND STEP, a son of the South Australian-based shuttle sire Dalakhani, won the G2 Jockey Club Stakes at Newmarket on 2000 Guineas day at Newmarket.

Trained by Luca Cumani Second Step (Dalakhani x My Dark Rosaleen by Sadler’s Wells) won last year’s Listed Finale Stakes at the Curragh. His race record now stands at four wins from seven starts and could be considered for an Australian campaign this spring.

• CHAMPION sires Oasis Dream, Cape Cross and Dubawi each edged closer to 100 stakeswinners with black type winners in the UK on Saturday.

The Robert Cowell-trained Goldream (Oasis Dream x Clizia by Machiavellian) won the G2 Palace House Stakes at Newmarket, becoming the 94th stakes winner for his sire.

Don’t Be, a Cape Cross mare trained by Sir Mark Prescott, won the Listed Conqueror Stakes at Goodwood to become the 95th stakes winner for her sire.

Godolphin’s 3YO colt Best Of Times (Dubawi x Nabati by Rahy) won the Listed Newmarket Stakes becoming the 88th stakes winner for his former shuttle sire.

• BERNARDINI filly Dame Dorothy shared the spotlight on Derby Day at Churchill Downs when she won the G1 Humana Distaff.

Dame Dorothy, a $390,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase, is out of the Woodman mare Vole Vole Monamour, dam of the G1 E.P. Taylor and G1 Prix Vermeille winner Mrs. Lindsay.

Dame Dorothy is the 10th G1 winner by Bernardini, whose best Australian runner has been triple G1 winner Boban.

His US G1 winners include Travers Stakes victors Stay Thirsty and Alpha, multiple G1 winner To Honor And Serve and his full sister Angela Renee.

• FRIDAY’S Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs was won by the bargain filly Lovely Maria, a daughter of Majesticperfection from the Thunder Gulch mare Thundercup.

Having been passed in for only US$5000 at the 2012 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, Lovely Maria has now won four of her eight career starts including the G1 Ashland Stakes at Keeneland last month.

• FRIDAY’s G1 La Troienne Stakes at Churchill was won by Molly Morgan, a 6YO mare by Ghostzapper from Capitulation (Distorted Humor).

The US$90,000 Keeneland September Yearling Sale graduate is the seventh G1 winner for her sire.