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New industry investors buy Rushton Park
Johnsons land quick sale as Scott-Smith and Kerr decide to make leap into thoroughbreds Victoria’s Rushton Park has been sold and the new owners are set to ramp up their involvement in racing and breeding by taking over the reputable thoroughbred establishment in the heart of the state’s Goulburn Valley. David and Kayley Johnson placed... Read More
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Tasmanian breeders up the ante as state’s 2024 catalogue released
A total of 140 lots to go under the hammer as Magic Millions commits to Quercus Park The collective investment by breeders from the Apple Isle will be on show when the majority of the state’s best-bred horses are offered at next year’s Magic Millions Tasmanian Yearling Sale. Continuing the rolling out of catalogues for... Read More
Sire power: stallion strength to the fore as catalogue for 2024 NZB Karaka Yearling Sale released
The best-bred crop of champion New Zealand sire Proisir (Choisir), the return of boom shuttler Satono Aladdin (Deep Impact) and a number of must-have Savabeels (Zabeel) are among the highlights of the 2024 New Zealand Bloodstock Karaka Yearling Sale. On the back of a successful Ready to Run Sale, the auction house yesterday released a... Read More
Williamson’s Playing God prophecy
Star Western Australian stallion delivers on Perth racing’s biggest day When Gray Williamson handed over the stud duties of Playing God (Blackfriars) to fellow Western Australian farm Darling View Thoroughbreds, he told Brent Atwell that the horse would set him up. In the almost four years since that conversation in the winter of 2020, Playing... Read More
The Parnhams land their first Railway as Bustler dazzles in the Group 1
Brilliant day for Darling View Thoroughbreds with Playing God chalking up stakes double By Lydia Symonds Neville Parnham, his son Steven and his former stable star, Playing God (Blackfriars), celebrated a day at Ascot that will live long in the memory, as they teamed up to win the WA Guineas (Gr 2, 1600m) and Western... Read More
Railway Stakes hope Alsephina out to give Star Turn a second Group 1 winner
WA runners could hold an advantage over their rivals from the eastern states as temperatures rocket in Perth Sun-seeking trainers-turned-breeders Carolyn and Michael Grant are hoping their patience with a delicate broodmare is rewarded when another western leading lady – Alsephina (Star Turn) – seeks a second elite-level win for her sire as the heat... Read More