Image: Ladies Pro (Credit: Western Racepix) There’s another potential star filly rising up in the west who’s giving a kick not only to her NSW sire D’Argento (So You Think) but to other facets of an intriguing pedigree. Ladies Pro, bought for a mere $45,000 at Magic Millions Adelaide by trainers Grant and Alana Williams... Read More

Image: Cellarmaster (Credit: Grant Peters) From one of New Zealand breeding’s most storied families – the famed “Belle Line” – comes Cellarmaster (Bivouac), the brood’s latest stakes winner after taking Saturday’s Winx Guineas (Gr 3, 1600m). His tail female line’s history reads like a weighty chapter of New Zealand breeding itself; at times told in... Read More

Image: Midnight Dynamite (Credit: Sportpix) 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... Read More

Image: Cilacap (Credit: Racing Photos) 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... Read More

Snitzel Dancer (Credit: Bradley Photos) 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... Read More