Monday, 1 March 2010: Windsor Park Stud stallions currently figure prominently on the Dewar Stallion Award table.
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As at February 28 High Chaparral, whose oldest crop are 3YO's, leads the way ahead of champion sire Zabeel.
While his G1 Cox Plate winning son So You Think has had his autumn campaign set aside, High Chaparral still has plenty of depth and class to represent him.
His G2 winning son Shoot Out is on track for his G1 autumn assignments in the Randwick Guineas and Doncaster Handicap following his cracking run for second in Saturday's G2
Hobartville Stakes in Sydney.
Next Saturday his VRC Derby winning son Monaco Consul will bid to complete a trans-Tasman Derby double in the $2.2 million Telecom New Zealand Derby at Ellerslie.
In fourth position is former Windsor Park sire Montjeu who was represented by his 76th stakes winner at the weekend when Old Jock was successful in the Listed Victoria Gold Cup over 2000m in Melbourne.
Old Jock's success added to an amazing record for Montjeu, who can be regarded as possibly the world's most dominant source of Group One stayers among current sires.
Montjeu has left 18 individual Group I winners worldwide and will look to increase that tally next week when his daughter Passchendaele contests the 3200m G1 Stella Artois Auckland Cup for which she is favourite.
Also winning in Melbourne last Saturday was Velocitea, a daughter of Windsor Park's 7-times champion sire Volksraad, who features in 8th position on the Dewar Award sire's table.
Velocitea charged home for a 2 ¼ length win in the Listed JRA Plate over 1100m at Caulfield and is unbeaten in two stakes winning starts for Caulfield trainer Mick Price.
She will now contest the G1 Sportingbet Classic, formerly the Robert Sangster Stakes, in Adelaide next month.
In 10th position is exciting young stallion Thorn Park.
Last Saturday his Windsor Park-bred daughter Miss Thorn almost completed an unprecedented third successive win for her sire in the G2 Matamata Breeders Stakes when she figured in a close photo finish for the prestigious 2YO fillies feature.
Miss Thorn became Thorn Park's 16th individual stakes performer, continuing an excellent season for her sire that also includes siring G2 winners La Etoile and Jimmy Choux as well as Australian stakes winners Centennial Park and Swiss Rose.
