From an agonising pinhooking failure – belying a family with several elite winners – Midnight Dynamite (Pierata) has gone on to shine as yet another success story for the power couple that is Darby Racing and Bjorn Baker. Bred by Rheinwood Pastoral, the southern highlands boutique nursery that’s brought us Group 1 heroes Private Harry... Read More

The greatest family of the late George Altomonte’s Corumbene Stud yielded more stakes success when Cilacap (Written Tycoon) lifted Saturday’s Queen Of The South Stakes (Gr 2, 1600m) at Morphettville. Grahame Begg’s four-year-old took another step on her black type progression with her fighting 0.3-length victory, which followed her Listed stakes breakthrough last February and... Read More

One of the great blue hens of modern breeding has come to the fore again with a first-time black type winner in Snitzel Dancer (Snitzel), who took out Saturday’s James H B Carr Stakes (Gr 3, 1400m) at Randwick. It was a stellar last day of the Randwick carnival for the late, great, general sires’... Read More

Diameter (Brazen Beau) provided another huge tick for his undersung sire and elevated his dam up another rung as a bonafide star of Darley’s breeding barn in taking Saturday’s important Fernhill Mile (Listed, 1600m). Godolphin’s Chris Waller-trained two-year-old colt became the third stakes winner from just five runners for his mother Circular (Street Cry), who... Read More

A large dose of intricate breeding appears to have worked wonders with Blue Door (Stay Inside), Bjorn Baker’s exciting two-year-old filly who followed a 7.63-length barrier trial romp with a debut victory in Saturday’s Kindergarten Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m). What immediately catches the eye is that she’s inbred to one of Australia’s great blue hens... Read More