Racetree duo Hotel Grand (Grand Lodge - Terrestial, by Star Watch) and Monashee Mountain (Danzig - Prospector’s Delite, by Mr Prospector) continued to represent their Queensland base with distinction by combining for a winning treble on Friday.

Hotel Grand produced his first double of the season with winners at Cranbourne and Ipswich.

Call Me Paris (Hotel Grand - Demanding, by L Cassidy) posted a win over older opposition in the TPI Queensland Maiden Plate (1350m) at Ipswich before Catawumpus (Hotel Grand - Myamble, by Sir Dapper) surprised with his 100-1 win in the Star News Group Maiden Plate (1300m).

Monashee Mountain contributed to the treble when his Guy Walter-trained son Monashee Woods (Monashee Mountain - Robina Woods, by Baltusrol) claimed the Storage King Maiden (1200m).

Monashee Mountain has produced 35 winners for the season with 23 of those successes coming in his home state of Queensland.

Hotel Grand is standing for $13,200 (inc. GST) while Monashee Mountain is working through his 2011 book of mares at a service fee of $8800 (inc. GST).

Racetree sires took the honours in the $20,000 Two-Year-old QTIS Handicap (1100m) at the Sunshine Coast on Sunday afternoon. (more…)

METONYMY, the eye-catching winner by a margin of three lengths of the juvenile event which opened the program at Moonee Valley last Friday evening, is a further example of the valuable legacy that former shuttle sire Grand Lodge has left to Australian breeding. (more…)

Racetree’s young stallion Hotel Grand is off the mark with his first winner when Metonymy led from barrier to post at Moonee Valley on Friday night to score her maiden win. (more…)

  ONE of the best bred sires at stud in Queensland is Monashee Mountain, an imported resident at the young Racetree stud at Innisplain who made his presence as a good sire felt on Saturday with smart 3-year-old winners on two metropolitan tracks. (more…)

Dinner Date will be sent to the paddock for a break after she scored a strong win in Saturday’s listed $100,000 Merson Cooper Stakes (1000m) at Sandown. (more…)

YACKI, a length-and-three-quarter trial winner for juveniles at Townsville on September 15, is from the first crop of a sire who has the qualities and the opportunity to spearhead a neighbour of the Queensland breeding powerhouse Glenlogan Park in the Innisplain valley quickly to the top. (more…)

An early love of racing was put aside as Kevin Dixon concentrated (more…)