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Newgate buys into Capitalist colt Profiteer

Odds-on Inglis Millennium (RL, 1200m) favourite Profiteer will have a new majority owner when the Capitalist (Written Tycoon) colt runs in Saturday’s $2 million juvenile race after Newgate Farm negotiated a deal to buy into the son of its promising Golden Slipper-winning sire. Newgate Farm managing director Henry Field announced  late yesterday that the Hunter... Read More

Speedster Pippie first big-name recruit heading to Chairman’s Sale

Dual Group 1 winner confirmed for Inglis breeding stock auction, but no decision on Melody Belle Inglis has landed the first blow in the competitive auction house rivalry to acquire high-end breeding stock with confirmation that dual Group 1-winning sprinter Pippie (Written Tycoon), a valuable outcross mare, will be offered at this year’s Chairman’s Sale.... Read More

Enthaar electrifies Caulfield in Chairman’s Stakes

Gimcrack winner makes it two from two and heads markets for Blue Diamond, Golden Slipper Enthaar (2 f Written Tycoon – Final Agreement by Not A Single Doubt) is set to start the shortest-priced Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) favourite in a decade when she lines up in the $2 million feature on February... Read More

Galvin: Melody Belle ‘on the edge of history’

Fortuna champion looks to join ‘the mare of the world’ Sunline as New Zealand’s most prolific thoroughbred of all time  For 18 years and 10 months, to the day, the incomparable Sunline (Desert Sun) has sat alone atop the list of New Zealand’s most successful trainees of all time. With that famous Doncaster Handicap (Gr... Read More

Arrowfield back and set to hold court at Easter

Stellar line-up of yearlings to go under the hammer at Inglis’s flagship sale Arrowfield will return to the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale ready to reclaim its mantle as the leading vendor at the prestigious thoroughbred auction, a year after John Messara’s bombshell decision to withdraw the 2020 draft from Riverside Stables, with a startling... Read More

‘I had the bit between my teeth and fillies like that are quite rare’

Roger James takes shine to $200,000 daughter of Churchill as first Book 2 session produces pleasing metrics at Karaka  Prominent trainer Roger James’ admiration for champion European racehorse Churchill (Galileo) combined with South Island breeders’ foresight to buy a mare from Australia in foal to the Coolmore shuttle sire has paid a big dividend, with... Read More