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On welfare, racing needs to achieve where it has been unsuccessful before – with a national, co-ordinated approach
The much anticipated thoroughbred welfare report released last week by the Thoroughbred Aftercare Welfare Working Group (TAWWG) was outstanding. Appropriately entitled “The Most Important Participant’, the 46 well-thought-out recommendations within it were absolutely spot on. A number of the report’s concluding statements came as no surprise to many, with welfare challenges facing the industry labelled... Read More
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Ebhaar (AUS)
Ebhaar (AUS) 2 f I Am Invincible – Maroon Bay by Exceed And Excel O: Emirates Park B: Emirates Park T: Peter and Paul Snowden W: Thoroughbred Club Merson Cooper Stakes (Listed, 1000m), Caulfield, November 27 Emirates Park look to have another Golden Slipper (Gr 1, 1200m) candidate on their hands, this time a... Read More
Lady Laguna
If it was good enough for I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit), it should be good enough for one of his sons. That in part informed Spendthrift Farm’s thinking in retiring Overshare (I Am Invincible), who they’d owned from a yearling, to stud in 2018. So far the results have been encouraging. If you call 100... Read More
Spring plaudits belong to Waller and Maher-Eustace
The temptation in racing is always to vigorously sing the praises of the smaller trainer doing well with limited numbers. Nothing wrong with that, of course, although it is often accompanied by a tinge of dismissive contempt of those at the top of the training tree as if numbers are all that is required. Numbers... Read More
13 for Highland Reel
New winners Highland Reel (pictured) – Swettenham Stud resident Highland Reel (Galileo), enjoyed a good day when the Roger Teal-trained Dancing Reel (2 c ex Poisson D’Or by Cape Cross) made a winning debut over seven furlongs at Kempton on Thursday and in doing so became the stallion’s 12th first-crop winner. The two-year-old colt ran... Read More
Overflowing Hunter Valley braces itself for more rainfall
With a whopping 242mm of rain falling in Scone for the month of November, the highest amount ever recorded for this time of year, something eventually had to give and late last week the country’s breeding capital’s surrounding rivers and creeks ran bankers causing 48 hours of mayhem for some of the area’s biggest stud... Read More