Waterhouse and Bott have a day out at Sydney session with seven juvenile scorers Darley’s northern hemisphere first season sire sensation Blue Point (Shamardal) made an immediate impact on yesterday’s official Sydney two-year-old barrier trial session, siring two winners including probable Breeders’ Plate (Gr 3, 1000m) favourite Scampi. The 12 heats also unearthed a potential... Read More

The first foal from one of Australia’s all-time great race mares, 25-time Group 1 winner Winx (Street Cry), will be offered at next year’s Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, ensuring the world thoroughbred industry’s focus is squarely on Sydney next April. The connections of the four-time Cox Plate (Gr 1, 2040m) heroine have made the... Read More

Mr Brightside’s purple patch of form flourished even further as the rampant six-year-old notched a fifth consecutive victory by winning yesterday’s Makybe Diva Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) at Flemington.  Racing in the presence of the great, three-time Melbourne Cup (Gr 1, 3200m) winner Makybe Diva (Desert King), who was trackside at Flemington on view for... Read More

Flemington was also the scene for another sire to earn a first-crop stakes winner yesterday, as Archo Nacho provided Sioux Nation (Scat Daddy) with a breakthrough black type success from his one and only southern hemisphere-bred crop in the Poseidon Stakes (Listed, 1100m).  Taking on much more fancied rivals, the Matt Laurie-trained Archo Nacho ($13),... Read More

Widden Stud stallion Trapeze Artist (Snitzel) earned a maiden first-crop stakes winner when Griff produced a swooping display to land yesterday’s Exford Plate (Listed, 1400m) at Flemington, putting himself in contention for a tilt at the Caulfield Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) on October 14.  Four-time Group 1-winning sprinter Trapeze Artist, who was a high-profile acquisition... Read More