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Murdoch to sell-up Larneuk Stud with Nagambie on the horizon

$4 million property in tightly held part of north-east Victoria put on the market Neville Murdoch is selling Larneuk Stud and getting out of the cut-throat stallion game, but the expatriate Kiwi won’t be lost to the thoroughbred breeding industry altogether. The 84-hectare Victorian farm, located in a tightly held area of Gooram, near Euroa... Read More

Colt king pounces on Debutant chance Aardvark

Super quick Capitalist colt set for his first start in Harron’s silks at Caulfield Under different circumstances Aardvark (Capitalist) would have been heading to the Gold Coast this week as a possible sales-topping two-year-old, but instead he’ll race in tomorrow’s Magic Millions-sponsored Debutant Stakes (Listed, 1000m) at Caulfield. The juvenile was a member of trainer... Read More

‘She was the closest mare that I’ve had an affinity with in my lifetime’

Tributes flow for Winx’s dam Vegas Showgirl after her sudden death, aged 21 John Camilleri, Peter O’Brien and the wider Segenhoe Stud team are mourning the death of champion broodmare Vegas Showgirl (Al Akbar), who died suddenly yesterday, but her ongoing influence on the Australian Stud Book is likely to be felt for decades to... Read More

Cox Plate on the table for Fangirl

Chris Waller will now consider a tilt at the Cox Plate (Gr 1, 2040m) for Fangirl (Sebring), after the mare captured the third Group 1 of her career in yesterday’s King Charles III Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) at Randwick.  Sporting the Ingham family’s famous cerise silks, the daughter of Sebring (More Than Ready) produced a... Read More

World class!

Think About It (So You Think) cemented his position as Australia’s newest sprinting star as he produced a scintillating display to win The Everest (1200m) at Randwick yesterday. The five-year-old’s triumph also markedly increased the chances of Coolmore’s So You Think (High Chaparral) being crowned Australia’s Champion Sire for the first time at the end... Read More

Big day for Widden’s Trapeze Artist as Griff takes Guineas

Maher and Eustace colt becomes the stallion’s first elite-level winner with Caulfield win Widden Stud’s second-season sire, Trapeze Artist (Snitzel), was provided with his best result since joining the stallion ranks, when his son Griff became his first Group 1 winner, shocking more fancied rivals to win yesterday’s Caulfield Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m).  Trained by... Read More