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Great Southern and Melbourne Gold sales to go ahead as scheduled

Victorian Premier’s Covid clamp down will not stop Inglis’ live auction plans at Oaklands Junction Inglis remains committed to conducting live Great Southern and Melbourne Gold yearling sales in Victoria next month despite the state government being forced into reneging on a planned relaxation of coronavirus regulations after a sudden spike in Covid-19 cases in... Read More

Group winner Bellevue Hill to stand in Hunter at Aquis

Aquis Farm will launch the stud career of Group 3-winning juvenile Bellevue Hill this year with the lightly–raced sprinter to stand in the Hunter Valley alongside another son of Pierro (Lonhro), the All Aged Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) winner Pierata.   The former Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Bellevue Hill, who was victorious in the 2019... Read More

Oleksandra caps stellar Saturday for Australia, New Zealand

The Team Valor mare becomes the first Australian-bred horse to win an American Grade 1 since the pattern was introduced in 1974 The Australian flag proudly flew over New York yesterday Australian time, when Oleksandra (Animal Kingdom) won the Jaipur Stakes (Gr 1, 6f) on the Belmont Stakes undercard, the first Australian-bred horse to win... Read More

Tributes flow for ‘Subbie’s mate’ Salisbury

Much-loved Victorian horseman Graham Salisbury has died after a long battle with prostate cancer, aged 76. Racing journalist Bruce Clark, long a friend of the Salisbury family, announced his death through social media last night. Salisbury died at Bendigo Hospital yesterday with his family at his side. Salisbury, a clerk of the course for Racing... Read More

Corowa’s Front Page creates headlines at Flemington

Defeat in a Benchmark 58 handicap at Corowa hardly shapes as a pointer to Listed success at Flemington in the same preparation, yet that is exactly the path followed by Front Page (Magnus) on his way to victory in the A R Creswick Stakes (Listed, 1200m) yesterday. Almost a half-century after Geoff Duryea ventured to... Read More

Blue Gum’s Smith takes top honour at Stud and Stable Staff Awards

Wendy Smith has been named as this year’s Thoroughbred Excellence Award winner, the highest honour bestowed at the annual Stud And Stable Staff Awards, supported by Godolphin, in a ceremony held virtually last night. Smith, Blue Gum Farm’s yearling manager, joins David Merrick, Joe Agresta, Jeremy Rogers, Jenny Watson and Mark Newnham as a winner... Read More