By The Numbers
What age do stallions start their breeding careers?
The perception is that Australia’s best young colts more than ever are being rushed off to stud, but do the statistics bear this out? By The Numbers investigates. Of the 17 new Australian-bred additions to Australian stallion rosters in 2023, just four were beginning their breeding careers at four years of age. It’s a number... Read More
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International freshmen ready to make a mark
With the first two-year-old stakes races of the season to be contested at Randwick on Saturday, we look at the shuttle sires with their first Australasian runners this season and how their first-crop progeny have fared in the northern hemisphere. Darley’s Blue Point (Shamardal) is yet to have a runner on Australian soil, but the... Read More
Group 1-winning pair create contrasting history
Group 1-winning heroes Alligator Blood and Militarize created history in very different ways with their respective victories at Caulfield and Rosehill on Saturday. Alligator Blood’s (All Too Hard) ‘iron horse’ qualities were well known before Saturday’s Underwood Stakes (Gr 1, 1800m), when he became just the fourth Australian horse since 2000 to win a Group... Read More
Best sires on the big stage
As elite racing ramps up, we look at which of the current sires has the best rate of producing Group 1 winners and where their records sit historically. A quick scan of the sires represented in the two Group 1 races at Rosehill and Caulfield on Saturday highlights the achievement and influence of a trio... Read More
Best sires on the big stage
As elite racing ramps up, we look at which of the current sires has the best rate of producing Group 1 winners and where their records sit historically. A quick scan of the sires represented in the two Group 1 races at Rosehill and Caulfield on Saturday highlights the achievement and influence of a trio... Read More
The mega stables
In an era of more trainers having a large number of horses in their stables, we take a look at how the training landscape has changed over recent history and which stables are the biggest. In 2017/18, Darren Weir’s final full season before his much-publicised disqualification, he had an astonishing 3,177 starters, nearly 700 more... Read More