TWO Coolmore first-season stallions recorded their first stakes winners during the past few days. Australia and War Command are the pair in question and both stallions were very different types of racehorses.

Anything Australia did at two was surely a bonus, as he was bred to be the champion three-year-old that he became. He won the Group 3 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Trial Stakes at Leopardstown from Free Eagle on his third outing at two, but the following year he notched up three Group 1 successes in the Derby at Epsom, the Irish Derby and the Juddmonte International. He is a son of the mighty Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) and the dual Oaks winner, dual Breeders’ Cup Filly And Mare Turf winner and European champion Ouija Board (Cape Cross).