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Lunar Fox causes a 300-1 boilover in Australian Guineas
Foxwedge colt upstages stud-bound rivals in Flemington upset Two high-profile stud-bound three-year-olds could be set for immediate racetrack retirement after another colt, the Horsham-trained Lunar Fox (Foxwedge), caused a massive upset in the $1 million Australian Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) at Flemington yesterday. On a day where there was Group 1 racing in Sydney, Melbourne... Read More
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Surge in bloodstock demand expected to continue at Premier
Victorian buyers are anticipated to underpin successful three-day Inglis sale beginning tomorrow The Victorian marketplace is expected to underpin a vibrant Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale market when the state’s major thoroughbred auction gets underway tomorrow, with Victorian owners and trainers predicted to make up for lost time and continue the recent surge in bloodstock... Read More
Roll The Dice Racing expands into Sydney & aligns with Matt Smith
Dissident ex Excess Love and Rubick ex Lady Rah Rah fillies are the first set to join the Group 1-winning Warwick Farm trainer Fresh off the back of two-year–old colt Profiteer’s (Capitalist) stunning success in the $2 million Inglis Millennium (RL, 1100m) earlier this month, Roll The Dice Racing has expanded into the tough Sydney... Read More
Racing NSW inject a further $20 million prize-money
New metropolitan Midway races and boost to Epsom Handicap part of increases across the board Racing NSW yesterday announced increases in annual prize–money to the tune of $20 million, in a show of further investment to the racing industry from the state’s governing body. Among the changes is the creation of a new tier of... Read More
Melbourne lawyers living Slipper dream with share in star colts Profiteer and Stay Inside
Couple hit the jackpot as Newgate swoops on stallion prospects in a matter of weeks Melbournian couple Nadia Angelo and Anna Dodgshun are on the equine ride of their lives, sharing in the ownership of arguably Australia’s most valuable two-year-old colts, leading Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) seeds Profiteer (Capitalist) and Stay Inside (Extreme... Read More
‘If you tread water eventually you will drown, so you get bigger or you will go backwards’
Historic Widden Stud takes over Sun Stud’s Victorian operation Antony Thompson says to survive in an increasingly global thoroughbred breeding industry, stud farms need to get bigger to compete, a realisation which led to his decision to take on a Victorian holding with his family’s famed Widden Stud, Australia’s oldest thoroughbred farm. Widden principal Thompson... Read More