Darling View Thoroughbreds stud manager Brent Atwell has been riding a roller-coaster of emotions with Playing God (Blackfriars) and I’m All The Talk (Stratum) this month. Atwell and his father Clive brokered Western Australia’s biggest ever deal for a locally-based stallion when they purchased Playing God from Mungrup Stud earlier this year. A week later... Read More

Inspirational Girl landed a windfall for favourite backers who crunched her from $3.50 to $2.60 in taking the Railway Stakes at Ascot last Saturday, becoming the first Group 1 winner bred by New Zealand’s Jamieson Park stud.  The West Australian mare – yet another from breeder Bob Peters’ cerise and white production line – had... Read More

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