Raw Freedman-trained juvenile to aim up at Life Members Stakes at Eagle Farm with view to spring targets Bell River Thoroughbreds’ Ferguson family are no strangers to racing quality fillies and they hope they have another one on their hands in the form of Resistible (Snitzel), a dominant first-start winner at Newcastle earlier this month.... Read More

New Zealand Bloodstock will not be rushed into finding director of sales replacement at Karaka complex Long-serving New Zealand Bloodstock employee Danny Rolston will join the Hong Kong Jockey Club in a new position overseeing the International Sale while also liaising with the organisation’s influential cohort of racehorse owners.  Rolston has been appointed as the... Read More

Connections set to call time on career of Home Affairs after stud-bound sprinter pulls up lame following Platinum Jubilee defeat The dust has barely settled on this year’s Royal Ascot carnival but already Chris Waller has his eyes set on a return to Europe’s showpiece meeting in 12 months’ time. Nature Strip (Nicconi) justified his... Read More

Australia’s remarkable Royal Ascot continued on the third day, this time through the exploits of Darley stallion Brazen Beau (I Am Invincible), who claimed a notable juvenile scalp when his son The Ridler ran out a controversial and shock winner of the Norfolk Stakes (Gr 2, 5f)  Brazen Beau, who finished second in the 2015... Read More

New Zealand Bloodstock will go against convention and conduct the Valachi Downs dispersal sale at Karaka this morning, prior to the start of the 112-lot National Weanling Sale, the company’s late autumn live auction offering. The decision by Kevin and Jo Hickman to sell their Valachi Downs property and training operation at Matamata, and disperse... Read More