The Twitter hashtag #snitzelstrikesagain is getting plenty of use this spring as Arrowfield’s brilliant young sire keeps rolling out gifted performers in several categories, and cementing his lead on three Australian stallion premierships. Today it was the turn of Snitzel’s 2YO daughter Golconda to generate a flurry of tweets with… Read More »
Girl Gone Rockin’ gave her champion sire Redoute’s Choice his third Cup Week stakeswinner when she landed Saturday’s VRC Matriarch S. G2 from a gallant Queenstown. She also gave her owners Anthony Mithen, his brother-in-law Nigel Austin and their team at Rosemont Stud in Victoria an unforgettable and very satisfying… Read More »
Girl Gone Rockin’ signed off an excellent week for champion sire Redoute’s Choice with a resolute victory in the $300,000 VRC Matriarch S. 2000m G2 on the final day of Cup Week at Flemington. The 5YO mare’s late charge at the gallant Queenstown (by Redoute’s Choice’s son Stratum) made for… Read More »
Having remained undefeated in four prior starts during the Spring including victory in the G1 Epsom Handicap to starts back, Bernardini four-year-old Boban lined up in the final G1 of the Flemington Spring carnival, the G1 Emirates Stakes on November 9. Settling mid-field in the run, the Chris Waller-trained gelding… Read More »
Champion sire Redoute’s Choice made his presence felt on Oaks Day at Flemington yesterday with a pair of impressive sprinting stakeswinners, Dystopia and Lankan Rupee. The colours made famous by Redoute’s Choice himself were carried to a thrilling victory in the $150,000 VRC Century S. 1000m LR by 4YO gelding… Read More »
Champion sire Redoute’s Choice will return to the Aga Khan’s Haras de Bonneval for his second northern hemisphere season in 2014. Redoute’s Choice’s exceptional achievements and continuing high-level success make his renewed presence in Europe a rare opportunity for international breeders. His progeny recorded two further Classic victories this season, taking… Read More »
Owners Steve & Louise Gillard and trainer Dan Bougoure liked Arrowfield’s Snitzel-Miss Kournikova filly enough to pay $400,000 for her at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Sale in January. Today, only 10 months later, they stood in the Group winner’s circle at Flemington after the filly, named Oakleigh Girl in honour of her… Read More »
Orb, winner of this year’s Kentucky Derby, has been retired from racing and will enter stud at Claiborne Farm in 2014. The homebred owned by Stuart S. Janney III and Phipps Stable will stand for an advertised fee of $US25,000 ($A26,400). Orb had been under consideration to start in the… Read More »
The first of Arrowfield’s 2014 yearlings began their sale preparation last Monday, and yesterday the first two runners from the Stud’s 2013 consignments made winning debuts at Rosehill and Morphettville. Racing over 1100 metres in Sydney, the 2YO Snitzel colt Time for War bounced out smartly from the gates, led the field round the turn and responded well when… Read More »
While Animal Kingdom happily attends to his first book of mares at Arrowfield Stud, Group 1 results in the United States and Australia during the past 24 hours have underscored the quality of his race record. Yesterday at Flemington Pearl Bloodstock’s Side Glance held off Dear Demi and Moriarty to win the $1 million VRC L.K.S. Mackinnon S. 2000m G1, a week… Read More »
A breeding partnership’s determination to pursue the Redoute’s Choice/Zabeel cross was rewarded on Friday evening when Gypsy Diamond won the $220,000 MVRC Fillies Classic 1600m G2. The 3YO filly is the 19th stakeswinner for Not A Single Doubt, and his second this season after the success of 2YO colt Risen From Doubt… Read More »
A few hours before Shamus Award broke his maiden in spectacular fashion at Moonee Valley, Snitzel’s fifth crop son Headwater Country made a brilliant debut over 900 metres at the Gold Coast. The 2YO colt jumped well and joined Lovelife to put three lengths on the rest of the field…. Read More »
“Over the moon!” was breeder Bob Hannon’s first reaction to Shamus Award’s history-making victory in today’s $3 million MVRC Cox Plate 2040m G1. The 3YO son of Snitzel is the first maiden to win Australia’s weight-for-age championship race, and joins a stellar group of 3YOs that have won the race in… Read More »
Australian and New Zealand breeders have supplied only six of the 14 runners in Saturday’s $3 million Cox Plate G1. Two of them are by Arrowfield stallions and one will join the Arrowfield roster at the end of his career. They bring three quite different stories to the race where… Read More »
Australian and New Zealand breeders have supplied only six of the 14 runners in Saturday’s $3 million Cox Plate G1. Two of them are by Arrowfield stallions and one will join the Arrowfield roster at the end of his career. They bring three quite different stories to the race where… Read More »
Retired champion racemare Black Caviar is expecting her first foal. Rated one of the best racehorses in the world before her retirement, Black Caviar is in foal to the champion sire Exceed And Excel. News of the famed racehorse’s pregnancy has been confirmed by Racing Victoria. The governing body said… Read More »
He has been labelled an excitement machine in Perth and Snitzel’s son Smoko certainly lived up to that billing at his season debut at Ascot today. He extended his unbeaten record with his fourth win when defeating a talented field over 1000 metres. The 4YO gelding jumped well from a… Read More »
Arrowfield’s now-retired champion sire Flying Spur notched up his 90th stakeswinner today at Caulfield when 4YO Spurtonic led all the way to take out the $150,000 MRC Coongy H. G3. He finished more than two lengths ahead of runner-up Bass Strait and recorded a time of 2:03.11 for the 2000-metre… Read More »
Reset gelding Fawkner became the third G1 winner for his sire with a brilliant win in the G1 Caulfield Cup over 2400m, October 19. Set for the race 11 months ago after running second in the G1 Emirates Stakes over 1600m, Fawkner was being tested at 2400m for the first… Read More »
The Transtasman Syndicate, which owns five-time Group 1 winner It’s A Dundeel (High Chaparral-Stareel, by Zabeel), announced today that its champion entire will stand at Arrowfield Stud in the Hunter Valley of NSW in 2014, after he has finished racing. Syndication of the stallion will be considered at a later… Read More »
