This was demonstrated again when two of the 2009 graduates supplied the quinella in the event for the age group which opened the program at Queanbeyan on Thursday and by the awesome effort of the new Macau budding superstar Happy Gladiator at the weekend.

Unbeaten after seven outings following his latest effort, a course record setting 2.8 length win, Happy Gladiator was bred by G.Young and sold at Scone through Woodlands Stud for $57,500. He is by the Quest for Fame Group1 winner Viscount and from Church On Sunday, a daughter of the Sunday Silence sire Bubble Gum Fellow.

Happy Gladiator is trained by Gary Moore, a son of the deceased Australian giant of race riding George Moore. Gary received his early grounding in horsemanship when his father had the Yarraman Park stud near Scone.

Coincidentally Yarraman Park, a prominent stud now conducted by the brothers Arthur and Harry Mitchell, stand the sire, Foreplay, and bred his first crop runner Happy Time, the second placegetter in the Queanbeyan juvenile event on Thursday. He was sold at Scone for $16,000 to Canberra trainer Gratz Vella.

The Queanbeyan race went by an awesome 5.5 lengths to Neville Layt (Queanbeyan) part owned and trained One More Grand, a colt in the first crop of the Arrowfield stud based Redoute's Choice (by Danehill) sire Snitzel. Arrowfield bred One More Grand using the imported Seattle Slew mare Lambada Lady, a close relation of Danehill and Northern Dancer, and sold him through the Bellerive Stud (Scone) consignment for $35,000 at the sale.

One More Grand became the third winner by Snitzel, a son of Redoute's Choice and the Snippet's stakes winner Snippet's Lass. It was an effort which was followed on Saturday at Randwick by a new significant winner for this up and coming young sire in the impressive Chance Bye.

She is another bargain buy from the Inglis sales, selling in Sydney twice for low prices, as a weanling for $11,000 (account her breeders Torryburn Stud, East Gresford, Hunter Valley) and then to her Kembla Grange based trainer and half owner Michael Tubman for $15,000 (account Glenlee, Wallabadah, NSW) at the Classic yearling sale.

In taking out Saturday's $250,000 Racing NSW Rewards Inglis Nursery, Chance Bye made Snitzel the first new sire to have four winners, gave him a big lead on the first season sire table and elevated him into second place in the overall juvenile list.

She also, most assuredly, boosted the appeal of the16 Snitzel yearlings in the Magic Millions yearling sale opening at the Gold Coast on January 6. One of those yearlings, a colt being offered by John and Gail Morrissey, Retreat Farm, Scone, is bred on the same cross as Chance Bye, both of them being from mares by Red Ransom.The yearling is the first foal of Hi Halo, a close relation of Circles of Gold, Elvstroem, Haradasun and Starspangledbanner.