Portland Sky is this season’s newcomer at Widden Stud in NSW. The stud continues to expand its impressive list of largely unproven stallions across their two State operations. The stallion becomes the second son of Deep Field to go to stud with the other being the Newgate stallion Cosmic Force who is approaching his third season at Newgate this year. It will be interesting to see if the first foals of that stallion, who stands for $11,000 will have an impact on the future of Portland Sky. Such can be the fickleness of the breeding industry, and the misleading nature at times of tools such as Nicking theories, that some ideas will be tempered by such comparisons. That is not to say that lessons cannot be learned from similar sirelines, but rather we should be careful in how we use that information. But on to Portland Sky.
The stallion did not start his racing career until an early 3yo, winning his first start in a maiden on the synthetic track at Ballarat. He started at odds-on but was made to work hard before getting the upper hand near the finish, drawing away to win by over a length from the I Am Invincible filly, Baaqyah who had actuallyfinished second in the Maribyrnong Plate as a 2yo at her first start, beating Tagaloa. Taken
