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Options open for Group 1 winner Atishu
Dual Group 1-winning mare Atishu (Savabeel) is likely to be retired at the end of her autumn campaign, but Go Racing’s Albert Bosma hasn’t ruled out continuing on with the rising seven-year-old mare in the spring if her form warrants it. The Chris Waller-trained Atishu has won the Queen Of The Turf Stakes (Gr 1,... Read More
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Hayasugi
Veteran breeder Mike O’Donnell bought an unraced mare by Commands called China Road online in July 2017 and then found out she only had one ovary. Didn’t matter. He would have bought her anyway, had he known, and she only cost ten grand. O’Donnell of Fairhill Farm bought China Road because her two-year-old Dynastic (Love... Read More
Three to follow on the weekend
Veight (Moonee Valley Race 9 #8) TRAINER: Tony and Calvin McEvoy RACE: Australia Stakes (Group 2, 1200m) One of the boom youngsters of the spring, the Tony and Calvin McEvoy–trained three-year-old Veight (Grunt) will attract plenty of attention at Moonee Valley. He hasn’t been seen since his respectable fifth in the Coolmore Stud Stakes (Gr... Read More
Fully Lit (AUS)
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Plenty of optimism in New Zealand racing industry
There’s plenty of optimism in the Kiwi racing industry, buoyed by this week’s injection of new money, via the NZ$4.5 million The NZB Kiwi (1500m) and a reshaped summer-autumn carnival, but New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing chief executive Bruce Sharrock isn’t resting on his laurels. Among the 2018-tabled Messara Report’s recommendations was the outsourcing of the... Read More
Fully Lit
There have been a few false dawns along the way, but out of the some dark times the landscape for Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott’s latest juvenile winner looks exactly as it sounds: Fully Lit. RedFox Thoroughbreds’ son of Hellbent (I Am Invincible) produced a sparkling debut to win by almost three lengths in Saturday’s... Read More