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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

Newgate Farm secures share in Slipper hopeful Stay Inside

Extreme Choice colt snapped up after stud enjoys super Saturday  Newgate Farm continued its rapid ascent as a thoroughbred breeding powerhouse with two of its young stallions producing their first Group 1 winners at Caulfield on Saturday and in the wake of the milestone day on the racetrack managing director Henry Field yesterday confirmed that... Read More

Artorius goes one better than his sire with Blue Diamond success

Son of Flying Artie provides Anthony and Sam Freedman with their first Group 1 win as a partnership  Artorius was able to do what his sire Flying Artie (Artie Schiller) was unlucky not to have done in 2016 and win yesterday’s Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) at Caulfield, providing father-and-son training team Anthony and... Read More