Exuberant owner and breeder Bert Vieira will put up $2 million of his own money, such is his unwavering belief in his four-time Group 1-winning stallion Trapeze Artist (Snitzel), as a lucrative bonus with the sire’s first crop of rising two-year-olds closing in on their racetrack debuts in the new racing season. The Sydney businessman,... Read More

Funding assured but politician campaigning to shore up Canberra’s thoroughbred industry Canberra may be the capital of Australia, but its thoroughbred racing industry is in danger of becoming a national backwater, if not wiped out all together, as the ACT’s Greens Party pushes for the withdrawal of government funding for the sport. The ACT government... Read More

More than a week on from a breakthrough Flemington win by Skyphios (Fiorente) in the Byerley Handicap (1800m), a testament to owner-breeder Glenn Rogers’ unwavering belief in the lightly raced two-year-old, the Victorian farmer hopes the gelding can put Arrandale Stud on the map. Ballarat-based Rogers, in his early 40s, is an all-rounder and is... Read More

Magic Millions’ managing director Barry Bowditch believes the stage has never been better across the spectrum of nationwide sales for vendors to consign their yearlings to go under the hammer next year. The Gold Coast-based auction house opened its entries yesterday for their 2023 sales series.  The trading season will begin with the traditional curtain-raising... Read More

I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit) has completed his rags-to-riches rise to the pinnacle of Australian breeding as he all but secured a maiden sires’ premiership yesterday courtesy of a battling success in the Bletchingly Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) at Caulfield from his son King Of Sparta (3 g I Am Invincible – Octavia by Holy... Read More