Zabeel; Commands; Lonhro; Exceed And Excel; Ad Valorem; Grand Slam; General Nediym; Northern Meteor; Husson; Redoute's Choice

* THE progeny of champion Zabeel are known to get better with age and its obvious his five-year-old daughter Lights Of Heaven still has the best ahead of her after her win in the G2 A D Hollindale Stakes at the Gold Coast.

Already the winner of the G2 Moonee Valley Classic and G1 Australasian Oaks at three and the G2 Brisbane Cup and G2 Eagle Farm Cup as a 4YO after finishing second in the 2012 Holllndale Stakes.

The Peter Moody-trained mare made it back to back wins after returning to top form at her previous start in the G3 Neville Sellwood Stakes at Rosehill and she is now on track for the G1 Doomben Cup, a race she also ran second in last year.

Lights Of Heaven (Zabeel x I’m In Heaven by Volksraad) is now the winner of eight of her 23 starts and over $1.5 million in prizemoney.

She is one of Zabeel’s 145 stakes winners and one of his six line-bred to the famed matriarch Somethingroyal (Princequillo) through her prolific sons Sir Gaylord (Turn-To) and Secretariat (Bold Ruler).

A daughter of the multiple city winner I’m In Heaven (Volksraad), Lights Of Heaven is a descendant of Chicquita (Blank).

* GROUP One placed 3YO Limes became the 57th stakes winner for his sire Commands when taking out the Saturday's Listed Hawkesbury Guineas.

Limes had been placed in seven stakes races during his 15 starts, including a third in the G1 ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes behind the recently retired champion Lonhro colt Pierro.

Limes is out of the Canny Lad mare Rum Cruise, a sister to the G2 winner Helm and a half-sister to the G3-winning and G1 placed Salty.

Rum Cruise is from the family of G1 winner Happy Sailing, G2 winner and multiple G1 placed Hello Darl and the Listed winners Greeting and Befriend.

She has a yearling colt by Exceed And Excel named Orujo and a weanling colt by Ad Valorem.

Commands is enjoying another big season to be third on the Australian General Sires’ prizemoney table behind Exceed And Excel and Fastnet Rock due in part to his G1 winners Appearance, Commanding Jewel and Epaulette.

* IMPRESSIVE Lonhro three-year-old Academus made a super start to his winter campaign by defeating a class field in the G3 Gold Coast Guineas on Saturday.

Spelled after a trip to Perth where he won the G2 WA Guineas in November, Academus was G1 placed at last year’s Brisbane carnival.

He is out of the Dehere mare Youthful Presence, a half-sister to the G3 winner Walking Or Dancing and the Listed winner Irongail.

The dam of four winners including the G1 South Australian Derby winner Kidnapped and the Listed winner Deledio, Youth Presence has a two-year-old Street Cry colt named Young, a Reset yearling colt and a Bernardini weanling filly.

Like Kidnapped (Viscount), Academus is line-bred to his own family, his fifth dam Courtessa (Supreme Court) being the third dam of Lonhro’s sire Octagonal (Zabeel).

Lonhro is the sire of 38 stakes winners highlighted by G1 winners Beaded, Mental, Pierro, Denman and Benfica.

* AEROBATICS became the 70th stakeswinner for her sire Exceed And Excel and helped him increase his lead on the Australian general sires premiership when she won the Listed Darley Crown at Hawkesbury.

Aerobatics, a 4YO mare out of the Rahy mare Grilse, is the fourth win in the race for the Darley stable after Sung Sung in 2008, Serenissima (2010) and Kanzan (2011).

Aerobatics, who has now won four of her 22 starts and prize money of $361,250, is a half sister to the G1 winner Alverta (Flying Spur) and Singapore G3 winner Revolte (French Deputy).

Her third dam is the Group placed Sous Entendu (Shadeed) who produced five winners including the stakes

winners Port Bonheur (Hennessy), Slip Stream (Irish River) and Banfsajee (Pleasant Colony).

Exceed And Excel’s winners this season include the G1 juvenile winners Overreach and Guelph. His older G1 winners include Reward For Effort, Excelebration, Margot Did and the triple G1 winner Helmet.

* AD VALOREM mare Detours added to her good second-up record when she recorded a tough win in the Listed Silk Stocking at the Gold Coast.

A winner of the G3 How Now Stakes first-up last campaign, this was her fifth win from 15 starts for over $380,000 in earnings.

She is out of the Octagonal mare Hairpin, a three-quarter sister to the dam of the G3 Chairman’s Stakes winner Hioctdane as well as a half-sister to the dam of the G3-winner Aichi.

Ad Valorem has six G1 or G2 performers in his first two Australian crops, including G2 winners Free Wheeling, Pied A Terre and Meliora.

* THE US-bred import Mouro became the 70th stakes winner for his sire Grand Slam when winning

the Listed Hawkesbury Rowley Mile on Saturday.

Grand Slam stood at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Kentucky prior to his death last year.

Mouro (Grand Slam x Kalpita by Spinning World) defeated European import Beaten Up (Beat Hollow) by a half head for his fourth win in only eight starts including two starts in France for one win.

He is out of the winning Spinning World mare Kalpita and is a half brother to the dual Hong Kong Cup winner California Memory.

His third dam is the G1 1000 Guineas runner-up Konafa (Damascus) who produced the Group winning sire Keos (Riverman). The family also features Hector Protector (Woodman) and Bosra Sham (Woodman

* IMPROVING General Nediym three year-old General Peekay picked up another Adelaide feature win in the Listed Adelaide Guineas at Morphettville on Saturday.

Foaled and raised at Widden Stud, General Peekay has the overall record of five wins from 12 starts and more than $205,000 in prizemoney.

He is the second winner from Sydney metropolitan winner Barberton and was retained after being withdrawn from the 2011 Magic Millions Yearling Sale.

Barberton died prematurely in 2011, but has left a two year-old filly by Northern Meteor and a yearling filly by Haradasun that sold for $25,000 at the 2013 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale.

General Peekay is one of 46 stakes-winners by his late sire General Nediym, who died in 2009.

* NORTHERN Meteor colt Zoustar stamped himself as a Brisbane winter carnival prospect when he kept his unbeaten record intact at Hawkesbury on Saturday.

The Chris Waller trained colt was a big winner on debut at Canterbury on April 17 and ran right up to that form in Saturday's $100,000 juvenile event over 1300m.

Zoustar was a $140,000 Magic Millions purchase for Iskander Racing and is the first winner for his dam Zou Zou, a winning half-sister by Redoute’s Choice to stakes-placed Crestfallen and to the dam of G2 winner Dusty Star.

Zouzou went back to Northern Meteor in 2011 and produced a full sister to Zoustar last spring.

Zoustar is one of 10 first crop winners for Northern Meteor, who sits at the top of the first season sires table by winners.

* HUSSON has a strong winter carnival prospect in Peron following the impressive Gold Coast win by his three-year-old Peron.

The John Thompson-trained filly from Faster Pussycat has won four of her five career starts and looks destined for stakes races this campaign.

Husson is enjoying a great season with 19 individual winners and a list of promising types including G3 winner Lucky Hussler and stakes performers Ferment, Hi Son, Little Miss Smiley and 2YO stakes winner The Huntress.

Sister Souss, a Husson full sister to his Gimcrack Stakes winner Hussousa, will make her debut at Canterbury on Wednesday.

Husson was the leading freshman sire by winners in 2011/12 and has eight individual stakes performers.

* THE classy Redoute's Choice four-year-old Strawberry Boy looks set for a Brisbane campaign after winning first time out from the Peter Moody stable at Flemington.

John Singleton's home-bred looked ready to build on the G3 placings he achieved over longer distances in Sydney last spring when trained by Gai Waterhouse.

Strawberry Boy is a son of Strawberry Girl, already the dam of three stakeswinners including G2 winner Danroad.

Strawberry Boy has now won five of his 8 starts and more than $200,000 and looks a good chance to add to the 19 stakeswinners already posted by Arrowfield's champion Redoute's Choice this season.