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The Inferno
We all know the value of meticulous planning in breeding but also of its apparent antithesis – luck. Sometimes those two powerful forces combine. Sometimes one blows the other out of the water. It was lucky Pierro took ill in his third season of 2015. Not for Coolmore and his shareholders of course, but, six... Read More
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15 for Churchill
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Willa Mitchell: the 18-year-old who is making the most out of being in lockdown
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Profondo (AUS)
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Masked Crusader
It’s a fine line between pleasure and pain. So, too, between madman and genius. When Rick Jamieson watched Masked Crusader win the Group 3 The Heath so effortlessly at Caulfield last Saturday, hanging over the pride in another cracking piece of breeding was a large cloud of melancholy. It was the Gilgai Farm maven who... Read More