Fourth stakes winner for Time Test

Little Avondale Stud stallion Time Test was represented by a stakes winner in Italy on Sunday when The King's Horses won the Listed Criterium Nazionale (1200m) in Rome to advance his record to three wins from four starts. 

The colt also became the fourth individual stakes winner from the first crop of the Dubawi, who is also the sire of Group Three winners Rocchigiani and Romantic Time, as well as Listed winner Tardis. 

Bred in the purple, Time Test is out of Passage Of Time, a Group One-winning daughter of Dansili and a half-sister to Gr.1 Falmouth Stakes (1600m) heroine Timepiece.

A high-class performer on the track, Time Test was a multiple Group Two winner and Group One placed in the UK for Roger Charlton, while he also placed in two Grade Ones for Chad Brown in America.

Time Test, whose eldest Southern Hemisphere crop have just turned two, stands at Little Avondale Stud where he will cover a full book this season at a fee of $8,500 +GST.

Farr recuperating after Great Northern fall

Jumps jockey Emily Farr has been discharged from hospital after suffering injuries from her fall aboard Kaharau in the Great Northern Hurdle (4200m) at Te Aroha on Sunday.

The evergreen galloper misjudged a hurdle near the 1100m mark and fell, dislodging Farr, who sustained a number of injuries, and Kaharau was humanely euthanised after he was found to have fractured his right foreleg.

“I got knocked out for four minutes,” said Emily Farr in a statement. “I have a suspected broken cheek bone and have broken my collarbone.

“I have facial bruising around my right eye and forehead, severe swelling around my lung, neck and back, and I lost two teeth.

“All CT scans have come back clear and I discharged myself last (Sunday) night.”

While her injuries will see her sidelined for a while, Farr said she was more distraught about the loss of Kaharau, the winner of 14 races on the flat, including the Listed Dunedin Gold Cup (2400m), and two placings in the Gr.3 New Zealand Cup (3200m).

“I lost my favourite boy yesterday and that hurts more than all my injuries and will for a very long time,” she said.