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Market responds to Zoustar’s rising prowess

Filly by Widden’s champion stallion sets a record of $2.2 million, but for how long? Inglis set a new record price for a filly sold at its Australian Easter Yearling Sale, but the $2.2 million daughter of Zoustar (Northern Meteor) may have the honour for less than 24 hours. The Widden Stud-bred and sold filly,... Read More

Tassort on top after Manaal flies home

Sires’ Produce Stakes win a huge boost for Newgate Farm’s first-season sire  Young stallion Tassort’s (Brazen Beau) outstanding start to his stud career received Group 1 affirmation when Emirates Park’s exciting homebred Manaal flew home to win a thrilling Sires’ Produce Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) at Randwick on Saturday. Jumping from the outside gate of... Read More

Top end of the market set to maintain momentum at Easter

Big wet won’t stop Inglis’ premium offering with star colts and elite fillies Inglis has contingency plans in place if Sydney’s heavy rain impacts its Australian Easter Yearling Sale, with the predicted downpour also threatening Saturday’s opening The Championships race meeting at Randwick. The Bureau of Meteorology are predicting up to 300 millimetres of rain... Read More

Cards still to be played for Winx’s Easter ace

Peter Tighe, one of three co-breeders of the only foal out of champion mare Winx (Street Cry), has expressed strong interest in retaining a share in the globally appealing daughter of Pierro (Lonhro). Almost certain to eclipse the Australasian bloodstock sale record of $2.6 million for a yearling filly when she is auctioned on day... Read More

Globetrotting Benbatl to shuttle to Woodside Park

Group 1-winning son of champion sire Dubawi to make his way to Victoria Benbatl, a son of the globally influential Dubawi (Dubai Millennium) who gave Australia’s champion Winx (Street Cry) a huge fright in the 2018 Cox Plate (Gr 1, 2040m), will shuttle to Woodside Park Stud in 2024. The Eddie Hirsch-owned Victoria-based farm has... Read More

Gray’s Kranji days are over as Kiwi walks out on Singapore

Last of the ‘originals’ to return to New Zealand after 24 years training in Asia Accomplished trainer Stephen Gray has announced he will quit Singaporean racing imminently after walking out of a meeting with government officials last month feeling dismayed.  His Singapore training peers, which included fellow Kiwi expatriate Donna Logan, also left with a... Read More