How many people that have worked long and hard enough in the racing and breeding industry, have said to themselves “I should write a book about this one day”? Such are the experiences and stories, I’d say there’s plenty who dance with the idea but there are very few who make the time or actually... Read More

California Deeply (AUS) 2 c Deep Field – Murtle Turtle by Murtajill O: Howard Liang B: Kingstar Farm T: Peter and Paul Snowden S: Coolmore Stud V: Asian Bloodstock P: $380,000 W: Harry Angel @ Darley Plate (1100m), Warwick Farm, December 8 Another potential Magic Millions horse reared their head this week when California Deeply... Read More

Like fathers, like sons. Among the many layers in the storied success of Written Tycoon (Iglesia), the great sire’s equal-top cross is via mares by Redoute’s Choice (Danehill), with 26 winners from 33 runners, identical to Flying Spur (Danehill). So, like going to school off a playing partner’s putt, a generation later it was with... Read More

To call a horse Simply The Best (Warhead) is to play games with fate. The late Fahd Salman learnt that truth in the 1990s with a colt he named The King (Lomond), being a half-brother to his excellent European champion Generous (Caerleon): The King never made the races, let alone challenged for any crown. Simply... Read More

New winners Caravaggio (pictured) – One-season Coolmore shuttler Caravaggio (Scat Daddy) picked up his 25th individual winner of his first northern hemisphere crop when Tiber Flow (2 c ex Malabar by Raven’s Pass) secured a promising victory on debut at Newcastle on Friday evening. The William Haggas-trained juvenile won by a length under Tom Marquand... Read More