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Bookmaker Merlehan banking on a Debutant boilover with his young Pride Of Dubai colt

Milo Racing syndicate excited about Lindsay Park’s Dubai Oak having first start in stakes race Big-betting corporate bookmaker Tristan Merlehan hopes the latest member of his family’s expanding racehorse portfolio can spring an upset in the Debutant Stakes (Listed, 1000m) at Caulfield and go some way to helping the balance sheet on two fronts. The... Read More

Group 1 winner Portland Sky to stand at Widden Stud

Top-class sprinter Portland Sky (Deep Field), the first Group 1 winner by Deep Field (Northern Meteor), has been retired from his racing career and will join the Widden Stud roster for the 2022 season.  Portland Sky showed his stakes potential early on in his career, winning his debut maiden at Ballarat on August 25, 2020. ... Read More

It’s Go Go on the Gold Coast

Bowditch adamant all is on track to welcome interstate participants for a big season-opening January yearling sale Magic Millions has given the biggest indication yet that it is full steam ahead towards the Gold Coast in January, moving to allay fears that the vital Australasian season-opening yearling sale in early 2022 could be without key... Read More

Fast Knightstown out to put Gumeracha and Summerset Park Stud on the map

Valentia three-year-old given chance in Caulfield Guineas three years after half-brother did the same South Australia hamlet Gumeracha, population 701, is famous for the world’s largest rocking horse, but come Saturday the town could also lay claim to another equine title, the breeding ground of a Caulfield Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) winner. The said horse... Read More

Heroic Valour hits the mark immediately for Queensland’s Raheen Stud

Doomben win of Kenmore Lodge-bred colt Heroic Son a first for long-time studmaster Basil Nolan Snr Sometimes racecourse victories mean more than others and cannot be measured simply by a race’s status or the prize-money it carried and one result in particular last weekend was an example of that for the tight-knit Nolan family and... Read More

Australian buyers forecast to be out in force at Tattersalls

Marketing director Jimmy George believes exploits of flagbearers will lead to spike in demand at October Book 1 sale which begins today Tattersalls’ flagship October Yearling Sale is set to take prominence with Book 1 getting underway today. The auction arrives in the context of what, so far, has been a strong European yearling market,... Read More