Proisir on target for second sires’ title
A flurry of recent winners has set up Rich Hill Stud’s champion stallion Proisir for a second champion New Zealand sires’ title.
He has been locked in a close battle with perennial champion Savabeel all season and two months ago it looked like the premiership would go down to the wire.
However, Proisir’s progeny have enjoyed a purple patch in recent weeks and he now leads the New Zealand Sires’ Premiership by $330,000 with just under three weeks of the 2025/26 racing season remaining.
It was another stellar day on Saturday for Proisir with a quartet of winners throughout Australasia.
His talented daughter Prioress set the ball rolling with a tenacious win in the open 1200 metre handicap at Hawera.
Debutante Latoya then created a huge impression when she won the two-year-old event at Ruakaka.
After sitting three wide throughout, the sister to Proisir’s five-time Gr.1-winning daughter Legarto kicked away to record a dominant win and looks destined for higher honours next season, based on her winning ratings.
Soon after in Sydney, Leovanni displayed a good turn of foot to record her second successive win in the Highway Plate over 1600 metres at Randwick.
To cap off a royal day for Proisir, his daughter Coeur Volante continued her excellent form with a third consecutive win when successful at Caulfield.
Proisir’s biggest and best credentialed foal crops are about to turn two and three and with around 120 rising two and three-year-olds in leading Australasian stables, Rich Hill can look forward to outstanding future racetrack results.
