Trainer Phillip Stokes and OTI Racing are hoping lightning can strike twice as bargain two-year-old Kazaru (Embellish) continues building her career in Saturday’s South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes (Gr 3, 1400m) at Morphettville Parks. Plucked out of Karaka Book 2 by OTI’s New Zealand agent Phill Cataldo for just $27,500, Kazaru is a half-sister to... Read More

Too Darn Hot (Dubawi) has become an unqualified siring sensation, following up his stellar debut season with an ultra successful second term which underpins his service fee leap to $275,000 (inc GST) on his return to the shuttle this spring. But though we’re amongst the last flickering embers of the season, Too Darn Hot is... Read More

A Jekyll and Hyde character she may be, but Illyivy’s (Flying Artie) breeder – and soon to be trainer – Kasey Besanko is willing to forgive the progressive filly almost anything given the inseparable bond the pair have formed. Besanko will officially become the fourth generation of her storied family to enter the training ranks... Read More

The older brigade knows that time is unstoppable and not just for we humans. Thoroughbreds are not immune and Waikato Stud’s Ocean Park (Thorn Park) will soon turn 17. That doesn’t mean he’s finished, far from it, but it does mean that he is finding that the competition is getting ahead of him. The stallion... Read More

A Kitasan Black (Black Tide) colt out of the four-time Australian Group 1 winner Mosheen (Fastnet Rock) proved the most popular during the yearling section of the JRHA Select Sale on Monday when he was purchased by Nebraska Racing for a session-topping ¥420,000,000 (approx. AU$4,344,842).  The daughter of Fastnet Rock (Danehill), whose top-flight wins included... Read More