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$20.3 million hike for Kiwi racing
Welcome New Zealand prize-money boost on eve of NZB National Sale An additional NZ$20.3 million in prize-money will be distributed to New Zealand’s thoroughbred participants next season as the first injection of cash is accounted for courtesy of the recently inked 25-year Entain-TAB NZ deal. Prize-money increases for the financially strained New Zealand industry will... Read More
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Snowden eyes stallion potential in Royal Ascot-bound Cannonball
Three-year-old son of Capitalist and Coolangatta continued their preparations for next week’s King’s Stand Stakes with an on-course gallop yesterday In a long and decorated training career, Peter Snowden has built a reputation for cultivating the stud careers of some of Australia’s most precocious equine talent, a feat no more exemplified than when delivering the... Read More
Tassie experiment for Group 2 winner Oxley Road
Exceed And Excel stallion prospect joins Brunton stable in bid to rejuvenate career Well-bred Group 2-winning sprinter Oxley Road (Exceed And Excel) will race on after a stud deal for the rising six-year-old entire was unable to be reached. A brother to Vinery’s young Group 1-winning stallion Exceedance and half-brother to dual Listed winner Mac... Read More
Hitotsu returns to his birthplace after Arrowfield strike deal
History-making three-time Group 1 winner becomes the first son of Maurice to stand at stud in Australia, commanding a fee of $22,000 Brilliant three-year-old Hitotsu, a son of Japanese super sire Maurice (Screen Hero), will stand at Arrowfield Stud in the Hunter Valley after the stallion prospect fought back from life-threatening injury and illness. The... Read More
Victorian breeders provide formidable backbone to Inglis Premier sale
Local farms and vendors increase their presence for Melbourne’s flagship sale as largest ever catalogue released The growth in strength of the Victorian breeding industry is behind the recent success of the Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale, according to the auction house’s Victorian bloodstock manager James Price, and the state’s breeders and vendors have again... Read More
Million-dollar Godfather dominant in Phelan Ready
The juvenile scene took further shape at Eagle Farm yesterday, as the James Harron Bloodstock-owned colt Godfather (2 c I Am Invincible – Meliora by Ad Valorem) made the perfect start to his career when producing a dominant performance to win the Phelan Ready Stakes (Listed, 1000m). A $1.1 million Magic Millions buy from the... Read More