We’re not saying The Black Cloud (Shamus Award) is plainly-bred or anything, but it’s a good thing there’s black in her name. Because there’s bugger all on her page. On her catalogue entry from the 2022 Inglis Classic sale, there’s space for no fewer than five dams, liberated as the family is from such space-hogging... Read More

What’s gone around has come around for Queensland’s Lucas Bloodstock as they celebrate their first stakes winner – and a duck-breaker for stallion Sun City (Zoustar) – in Itchintogo, winner of Saturday’s Phelan Ready Stakes (Listed, 1110m) at Doomben. Ben Lucas not only bred the two-year-old gelding but his dam Itchintowin (Nothing To Lose), who... Read More

Death, taxes and Sadler’s Wells over Dubawi. That last certainty has been shown to work again with a new stakes winner in Ruska Roma (Super Seth), Pinecliff Racing’s homebred three-year-old filly who took out Caulfield’s Twilight Glow Stakes (Listed, 1400m) on Saturday. Sadler’s Wells (Northern Dancer) runs through the top line of Ruska Roma’s pedigree... Read More

Talk about hitting your bullseyes. Four years ago, long-time Queensland hobby breeders Fred and Desley Monsour were looking for a stallion to cover their mare Sheza Gypsy, by the relatively obscure stallion Shaft and out of a fairly plain female family. Their trusted associate Verna Metcalfe went out on something of a tangent, and told... Read More

It might seem a little odd to speak of a run of terrible luck with a mare who’s thrown three stakes winners, but the story of Lovely Jubbly (Lion Hunter) and her offspring is not your usual one. The 26-year-old is the dam of Chautauqua (Encosta De Lago), the 12-time stakes winner including six at... Read More