Ali and Frazier. Sampras and Agassi. Redoute’s and Encosta. Amid some of sport’s greatest rivalries, the battle between the last pair has become one of the tightest, and most engrossing, Australia’s thoroughbred landscape has enjoyed. There’s one major difference, of course: the competition between Redoute’s Choice (Danehill), born in 1996, and Encosta De Lago (Fairy... Read More

Justify is set to return to covering duties at Jerrys Plains in the coming weeks with his Coolmore connections undoubtedly boosted by the fact he appears to be responsible for Europe’s best juvenile colt and filly following the weekend’s action, writes Paul Eacott.  City Of Troy rocketed to the head of the betting for both... Read More

With the final meeting of the campaign having been run on Sunday, this Hong Kong season was all about records. Lots of them, and tumbling.  From Zac Purton’s much vaunted record-breaking campaign in the saddle, to John Size claiming a record 12th trainers’ title, while in the equine department Deep Field (Northern Meteor) smashed his... Read More

New winners Blue Point (pictured above) – Darley’s Blue Point (Shamardal) was handed his 17th and 18th individual winners last week, beginning when Specific Times (2 f ex Daily Times by Gleneagles) scored in a six-furlong nursery at York. Specific Times is the first foal out of the winning Gleneagles (Galileo) mare Daily Times, herself... Read More

Building talented colts into stallions can be a lucrative business model for any stable. By The Numbers looks at the trainers with the most graduates on Australasian stallion rosters. John Hawkes built his reputation as a maker of future stallions in his tenure in charge of Bob and Jack Ingham’s Crown Lodge operation. In the... Read More