Ross Daisley, the Hawkesbury Valley region breeder who achieved fame as the breeder of Choisir, the Danehill Dancer star who followed up Group 1 success in Australia with two glorious successes in two big sprints in a week at England's Royal Ascot carnival in 2003, gained new distinction at the weekend when another good performer he bred became the sire of the first Australasian two-year-old winner for 2006-07.

Successful over 800m at Wanganui on Saturday, the youngster, a filly by the name of Ovation, is from the second crop of Spectatorial, a sire located at the Hallmark Stud at Te Kauwhata, New Zealand who has only had five runners to date.

Bred by Daisley using the former shuttler Spectrum and the Military Plume AJC Reginald Allen Handicap winner Reign of Honour, Spectatorial was himself one of the best juveniles in Australia in 2000-01, racing four times at that age for two stakes wins, the VRC Sires' Produce Stakes and Talindert Stakes, and a third at Caulfield in the Blue Diamond Stakes.

A half-brother to Lord of the Manor, a showy looking son of Grand Lodge starting his career as a sire this year at the Piplyn Lodge Stud at Gundaroo near Goulburn, NSW. Spectatorial is one of three Australian Group 1 winners among the180 winners on the board got by Spectrum from six visits in the1997-2002 period to the Hunter Valley,

His other progeny include Woolspinner, a winner at Newcasle on Saturday, and Newton's Rings, the nose second to Eremein in the Group 2 Chelmsford Stakes at Randwick the same day.

Spectrum has had high class performers also from use in Ireland and is represented in Australia by a son bred in that country, Hemingway. Winner of his only two starts, both at two, he is on $5,500 at the Chatswood Stud at Avenel in Victoria.

One of the100 stakes winners by the Blushing Groom European older champion of 1985 Rainbow Quest, Spectrum was at his top himself in the 1600-2000m range. He only ran nine times but won four races, two of them, the Irish Two Thousand Guineas and Newmarket Champion Stakes, Group1 events.

He is by the same sire as Quest for Fame, the English Derby winner and two-times American Breeders' Cup third who does a very good job as a sire at the Woodlands Stud in the Hunter Valley.