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Cool Aza Beel has first-season fee set by Newhaven Park
Newhaven Park has announced that Cool Aza Beel, their Group 1-winning son of Savabeel (Zabeel), will stand his first season at their Boorowa property for a fee of $16,500 (inc GST) in 2021. The winner of the Sistema Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) and Karaka Million (RL, 1200m) during an outstanding two-year-old season for trainer Jamie... Read More
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Anamoe
It’s taken 12 years, three countries and some of the best sires in the world, but Darley’s former Group 1-winning mare Anamato appears to have an out-and-out superstar on her hands in Anamoe. And in claiming his “when-not-if” Group 1 in Saturday’s Sires Produce Stakes at Randwick, the exhilarating colt also provided more power for... Read More
‘Maybe it was crazy training so young, but I just went with the flow’
Retired trainer Joe Hall is the patriarch of an immediate and extended family which has had an enormous influence on racing, plus he’s been a mentor and father figure to many beyond his kin. The breadth of the family’s influence is best kept simple by way of introduction. Hall, 82, and still living close to... Read More
Nine for Capitalist
Capitalist (pictured) Newgate Farm’s Capitalist (Written Tycoon) stretched further clear in the leading first season sire table by winners, as he scored an eighth individual winner in Australia and ninth overall when Elite Thoroughbreds’ Capital Reign (2 g ex Elle Lou by Snitzel) profited in a maiden handicap over 1000 metres at Canberra on Friday.... Read More
Yao Dash
Yao Dash – the compact gelding with the tiny weight in the Doncaster Mile – can truly be said to be riding on giants’ shoulders. The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained four-year-old led throughout to streak away with the Doncaster Prelude at Rosehill last weekend – his fifth win from 13 starts. Dropping 2.5 kilograms... Read More
I Am Invincible fillies sought after as Mills overcomes shakes to buy $1.95 million collector’s item
Inglis Easter sale comes to a close as 22 yearlings make seven figures at Riverside The final select yearling sale of the season, the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, has rounded out a remarkable surge in demand for bloodstock from buyers in 2021 with the highest-priced filly ever sold by I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit)... Read More