Jockey Jamie Kah’s success is likely to prove the racing story of the current season.  That will be especially so if she were to go on to claim the Victorian metropolitan jockeys’ premiership in which she currently has a seven win lead over Damien Oliver and a winning  strike rate of 20 per cent, which... Read More

New first season sire winners Belardo  Haunui Farm shuttler Belardo (Lope De Vega), who will have his first southern hemisphere two-year-olds this season, sired his 14th individual winner on Sunday when Lenny Belardo (2 c ex Tina’s Spirit by Invincible Spirit) took out a handicap over 1200 metres at Pisa. Lenny Belardo got off the... Read More

Avonallo (NZ) 2 c Belardo – Real Angel by O’Reilly O: C A Rutten & Little Avondale Trust B: Little Avondale Trust T: Jamie Richards S: 2020 NZB National Yearling Sale V: Little Avondale Stud P: Chris Rutten Bloodstock, NZ$30,000 W: Listed Welcome Stakes, 1000m, November 14, Riccarton The debut victory of Avonallo (2 c... Read More

The Australian racing and breeding industry, so often in competition with each other and berated for its constant internal division, must once again unite for the greater good to immediately lobby against a Hunter Valley mining application which threatens prime agricultural land. Coolmore and Godolphin, the biggest players in the world of thoroughbreds, have the... Read More

In racing and breeding, sometimes champagne and caviar can come disguised as flat beer and sardines, with one person’s poison morphing into another person’s meat.  In 2013, Gai Waterhouse and James Harron Bloodstock shelled out half a million dollars for a well-bred yearling – by Fastnet Rock out of Legally Bay.  She was a bay,... Read More