While the global racing and breeding powerhouse, Godolphin took centre stage on Saturday when Daumier (Epaulette) landed the Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m), a Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) dream sprung to life for Laurel Oak Bloodstock when their homebred filly Fireburn (Rebel Dane) landed the Sweet Embrace Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) at... Read More

Lickety Split (AUS) 2 f Turn Me Loose – She’s Slinky by Handsome Ransom O: M Delahunty, D & T Hawkins, Mrs C A & N D Hewson, J & M Kilkenny B: D Hawkins & N D Hewson T: Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman W: Thomsons Foodservice 1100, 1100m, February 18, Ellerslie Windsor Park... Read More

In snooker, it’s all about precision. And in the making of picket fence builder Corner Pocket, one of two new stakes winners for surging stallion Toronado (High Chaparral) last weekend, Swettenham Stud played all the angles with consummate skill before putting their queue in the rack. The mare Baize (Commands), from which the Lindsey Smith-trained... Read More

The Cranbourne training ranks have swollen in quantity and quality in the past 12 months, with the arrival of leviathan outfits and household names relocating from Caulfield. Despite the recent influx, long standing Cranbourne horsemen Enver Jusufovic and Julius Sandhu have been the flagbearers for south-east Melbourne’s excellent training facility over the past two weeks.... Read More

Douglas Whyte has put his faith in the European breed as a superior product when it comes to races over a mile plus in Hong Kong, but only when given the time and patience to flourish in what is a harsher, more alien racing arena to the open pastures they are accustomed to. That judgement... Read More