Where only perfection will do.

Pencarrow Stud have welcomed the first foals of the new season, with a colt and a filly arriving safely to signal the start of the busy foaling period.

The colt, by the late, great sire Savabeel, was born Tuesday 25 August, and is out of Invincible Queen (NZ) (I Am Invincible), thus hailing from one of Pencarrow’s most proven families.

Progressive Pencarrow galloper Empirical (NZ) (Eminent) recorded his second win from only a four-race career when he made a winning start to his new season in Sunday’s $17,000 Charyn – World Champion Miler (1200m) at Taupo.

The super-consistent Altiplano (NZ) (Ace High) capped a sequence of placings with a deserved breakthrough victory in the $27,500 Saddlery Warehouse MAAT Final (1550m) at Cambridge on Wednesday.

The four-year-old Pencarrow homebred went into the race as a maiden, but had been a six-time placegetter from his 12 previous starts. Wednesday’s success means he has now had 13 starts for one win, six seconds, a fourth and a fifth, earning $39,277.

Lightly raced three-year-old Rebel Moon (Lope De Vega), who was bred by Haras d'Étreham and Pencarrow principal Sir Peter Vela, stamped herself as a high-class filly with a black-type success in the Group Three Al Shira'aa Racing Irish EBF Jannah Rose Stakes (2100m) at Naas late last month.

Trained by Joseph O’Brien, Rebel Moon now has a perfect two-start, two-win record. She has earned €55,200 in stakes for her owners Al Shira'aa Racing Limited, who sponsored the Group Three feature.