Invincible Spirit’s brilliant Group 1-winning son Shalaa returns to Arrowfield next week on a wave of racetrack and sale-ring success that will keep the spotlight on his first-crop Australian runners this season. The good news keeps coming from Shalaa’s first northern hemisphere juveniles. On Tuesday he recorded his 4th individual… Read More »
‘Physically, he’s a Zoustar clone,’ stated Antony Thompson of Widden Stud with news that Zousain is retiring to the Widden Valley it is season. ‘An easy Group 2 winning 2yo and half a length from emulating his sire as a 3yo when running a close second in the Golden Rose… Read More »
In announcing Xtravagant’s fourth season at Newhaven Park, John Kelly believes ‘the 30% reduction in his fee is reflective of the uncertain economic times.’ ‘It allows breeders to breed to a multiple Group One winner at a fee where there is scope to make a profit,’ John stated with Xtravagant’s… Read More »
What foresight does Oliver Tait processes! In weeks of Colette winning the Australian Oaks, Oliver had her sire Hallowed Crown take up residence at Twin Hills Stud. Two years-ago Oliver opened the gates of Twin Hills for Smart Missile to stand his first season, and in weeks his daughter Maid… Read More »
The former champion 3yo filly Sunlight heads Day 1 of the Gold Coast Broodmare Sale on Monday 27 July, the opening day of the 2020 Magic Millions National Sale. In winning the Newmarket Handicap, Coolmore Stud Stakes and William Reid Stakes, Sunlight was crowned Champion 3YO Filly of 2018-19, and… Read More »
The Group 1 winning Pierata retires to Aquis Farm, Hunter Valley as the winner of over $5.8 million in stakes having finished outside of the top five only twice in his 26 career starts. In defeating 39 individual Group 1 winners of 79 Group 1 races his highlight came in… Read More »
Take a bow Simon Johnson, ‘as a motivator in constantly leading your team toward excellence,’ you receive the Australian Stud and Stable Staff Award for Leadership in 2020. In nominating Simon Johnson as ‘the person these Awards were created for’ Kylie Mills stated “Simon is always fostering the careers of… Read More »
In Breeders’ Cup Classic hero Vino Rosso standing at Spendthrift Farm in Victoria it was his Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher who stated ‘I think he’s got a big future. He’s a very good-looking horse.’ ‘He was able to win at 2, 3 and 4 and is a classy… Read More »
The new Queensland breeding season is taking shape with Sun City, the first son of top sire Zoustar to stand in the state, joining the Telemon Thoroughbreds roster. Sun City, a Group Three winner, will stand for $7,700 this coming season beside another young stallion in Sidestep who has already… Read More »
Queensland’s Grandview Stud has announced a cut in the service fee for leading sire Whittington as the state’s breeders carefully watch the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Whittington is generally regarded as one of the best value stallions in Queensland, if not Australia. He is currently second on the… Read More »
So where would you rate this broodmare BAGALOLLIES in the pantheon of greats? She was already a superstar prior to the weekend, but after the past 72 hours, OMG, hasn’t she become something incredible? The sweetly named Bagalollies (Zabeel-Lady’s Night) herself a 2 x winner on the track is now… Read More »
“It’s the best catalogue of mares for the Australian Broodmare Sale for many years,” said Chris Russell, the Inglis NSW Bloodstock Manager. “Definitely a sale that discerning commercial breeders need to pay very close attention.” Conducted via the Inglis Digital Online platform on Sunday 10 May, it features a 343… Read More »
“This Chairman’s catalogue is filled with world-class athletes with some of the best and most commercial bloodlines in the world,” states Inglis’ NSW Bloodstock Manager Chris Russell in announcing The Chairman’s Sale for Friday 8 May. Commencing at 3pm the auction format will follow the Easter Yearling Sale with Virtual… Read More »
Darley has reduced most of its stallion fees for the upcoming breeding season with uncertainty continuing regarding the coronavirus pandemic. Exceed And Excel leads the roster and is the only Darley stallion to have his service fee increased, going from $88,000 to $132,000. “We’ve been supportive in our approach to… Read More »
Champion European sprinter Blue Point will join Darley’s southern hemisphere stallion roster along with Too Darn Hot and Microphone. Too Darn Hot was Europe’s champion juvenile of 2018 while Microphone earned the same title in Australia last season. Blue Point won the Group One sprint double, the King’s Stand and… Read More »
Day 1 of the prestigious Inglis Easter Yearling sale starts today. No buying bench present. No horses. These are terrible times and a large number of babies have already been withdrawn. But Inglis, to their credit, is soldiering on and the auction will be conducted online. So, here’s an exercise…. Read More »
Those looking for million dollars winners, and wearing Elton John ‘dollar sign glasses,’ then don’t go past Newgate Farm’s First Season Sire Bonus Incentive at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale. It may be your own Capitalist, the Golden Slipper Stakes winner, your own Blue Diamond Stakes winner in Extreme… Read More »
In major breeding countries across the globe, numbers mean dollars. Big, big dollars. You have a stallion who gets stakes winners and has a great winners-to-runners stat, or simply produces the odd superstar, you are in the clear. And so it is in Australia. Especially in Australia and right now,… Read More »
When a $15 chance at only her fourth start leads a quality field into the home straight in the $500,000 ATC Vinery Stud S. 2000m G1, her best hope seems to be to hang on for third or fourth as the favourites loom up behind her. A couple of things… Read More »
Outstanding young stallion HALLOWED CROWN (Street Sense-Crowned Glory), himself also the winner of 6 races including a pair of Gr 1 victories, has been moved. He will find his way to Cootamundra in NSW where he will stand this year with Ollie Tait at Twin Hills Stud. The farm also… Read More »
