It's In The Blood

Ole Kirk

The best-known link between Denmark and Australia probably comes in the form of Mary Donaldson, the former Tasmanian advertising worker who married the heir to the Danish throne and is now Crown Princess Mary. But you wonder if anyone in Denmark knows there’s an extremely formidable branch of Australian thoroughbred royalty that traces back, the... Read More

Verry Elleegant

Two academic points spring to mind in an assessment of Verry Elleegant.  The most obvious is that the spelling is a tiny bit off. The second, from the mare’s pedigree, suggests the maths don’t quite hit the mark either.  The factor that screams “potential champion” in the lineage of the five-year-old, who’ll attempt to become... Read More