Trader celebrates interstate double with exciting son of Flying Artie to follow proven Group 1 path Ask industry professionals, agents and studmasters alike, and the majority will agree that Rhys Smith has one of the best eyes for a horse in the business, not that the Kulani Park owner is one for self-promotion. Over the... Read More

Rosemont stallion bags a fourth Group 1 winner as former Queenslander shows he’s the real deal Cast our minds back to April this year when, on the 11th of the month, the Steve Tregea-trained Incentivise, a thrice-raced four-year-old maiden of uninspiring form turned up at the Sunshine Coast, and was sent off a pessimistic $17... Read More

Matt Smith-trained Japanese import and sibling to Fierce Impact makes second Australian start at Flemington Matt Smith knows what it takes to train a son of Deep Impact (Sunday Silence) to Group 1 success and he’s hoping he might be able to repeat the feats he achieved with Fierce Impact with his latest Japanese-bred and... Read More

Daughters of Bounding, Taste Of Heaven and Thyme For Roses to go under the hammer The Keeneland September Yearling Sale will get under way next week and the Australian representative of the US thoroughbred auction house believes a batch of fillies with potent southern hemisphere pedigrees could present buyers Down Under with a rare opportunity... Read More

Crippling cost of insurance cruelling capital’s training ranks with total costs ‘$60k’ higher than across the border Canberra may be the capital of the nation, but the Australian Capital Territory’s thoroughbred racing industry could be considered as withering on the vine as its trainers struggle to combat skyrocketing insurance premiums and inequitable restrictions placed on... Read More