2 c Redoute’s Choice – Gresset by Hussonet  Trainer: Annabel Neasham Race: Elite Sand Soil Handicap (1200m), Rosehill  Sale: Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale. V: Bhima Thoroughbreds. P: Zhiqiang An, $1,100,000    Expensive yearling Military Expert (Redoute’s Choice) will bid to turn the tables on King Of Sparta (I Am Invincible) when the pair... Read More

2 f Lonhro – Yavanna by Redoute’s Choice O: Godolphin B: Godolphin T: James Cummings W: 2YO Fillies’ Maiden Plate (1100m), Randwick-Kensington, Wednesday, July 21  Laurelin (Lonhro), a sister to Randwick Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Kementari, looks one to watch next season after impressively landing the 1100-metre two-year-old fillies’ maiden at Kensington on Wednesday. ... Read More

When Gonnadancealot won the 1800m first race at Flemington last Saturday, it heralded the start of not just one but perhaps two exciting Australian careers – that of the two-year-old filly, and her sire Sir Prancealot.  The Irish-bred 11-year-old is a stallion who, in a way, may have slipped through some cracks on his way... Read More

When a smart three-year-old with Hong Kong connections places top-four in an Australian classic, what follows is often exportation to the Pearl River environs and a targeted Derby campaign. That is exactly what prominent owner Simon Kwok did with his homebred Beauty Bolt (Redoute’s Choice), and yet, rather than take the conventional route to Sha... Read More

Moneyball is the entertaining 2011 movie based on the Oakland Athletics baseball team’s success in building a team of undervalued players based on data analysis. Baseball, like cricket, is very much data analysis and statistics driven. Much more so than horse-racing despite the vast array of factors assessed, consciously or subconsciously, every time we look... Read More