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Marine One (AUS)
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
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Naboo Attack takes aim for his forgotten sire
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
25 for Caravaggio
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
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
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