Ageless trainer Les Bridge has an ominous warning for Sydney spring carnival aspirants, especially those targeting the $10 million Golden Eagle (1500m): Celestial Legend (Dundeel) has come back bigger, stronger and better than even in his all-conquering autumn. All going well, he could also be targeted at the Hong Kong Mile (Gr 1, 1600m) in... Read More

Grail Seeker (Iffraaj) threw the cat amongst the pigeons with a rousing performance in the Tarzino Trophy (Gr 1, 1400m), the first top-flight contest of the New Zealand season, proving that a different track provided a result different from either Ruakaka or Te Rapa, sites of the two races which supplied the two favourites for... Read More

Expectations high after record-breaking 2023 edition of the successful Karaka juvenile sale A total of 404 ‘quality’ two-year-olds have been catalogued for the 2024 edition of the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready To Run Sale which will begin its two-day run at Karaka on November 20. Last year’s edition of the sale saw records smashed across... Read More

Coolmore holds off three challengers for stake in Golden Slipper favourite The owners of $50 million colt Storm Boy (Justify), the unbeaten Magic Millions 2YO Classic (RL, 1200m) winner, knew they had a serious juvenile on their hands before he’d even raced. So, too, did a number of studmasters who made unsuccessful initial overtures about... Read More

The first foal of one of Australia’s all-time great race mares, 25-time Group 1 winner Winx (Street Cry), will be offered at next year’s Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, ensuring the world thoroughbred industry’s focus is squarely on Sydney next April. The connections of the four-time Cox Plate (Gr 1, 2040m) heroine have made the... Read More