Fastnet Rock strikes stakes success on both sides of the Tasman with champion Kiwi mare a New Year’s Day highlight David Ellis’ Te Akau Racing and trainer Jamie Richards dominated Ellerslie’s Christmas Carnival to the extent that anything other than a win to champion mare Avantage (Fastnet Rock) in the Sistema Railway (Gr 1, 1200m)... Read More

Vandersluys takes over lease of Aquis Victoria property while maintaining pre-training facility Racing can be an ego-driven industry which attracts those who like to be front and centre but Luke Vandersluys, the man behind Victoria’s Leneva Park, is not one of those and so it again proved when the spelling and pre-training operation announced it... Read More

Any review into 2020, whether it be about thoroughbreds or typographers or everything and anything in between, will state the obvious – it has been a year unlike any other, with tribulations unmatched in the modern era. Hardly a soul on the planet has been untouched by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which a year ago had... Read More

There is no doubt that 2020 will be remembered for all the wrong reasons, with very few completely unaffected by the Covid-19 pandemic that has wreaked havoc across the world.  In March, it seemed like racing was just a heartbeat away from shutting down, right in the middle of the lucrative autumn carnival. When New... Read More

The six-year-old is now the second most successful two-year-old sire of all time Tally-Ho Stud’s first-season sire Mehmas (Acclamation) became the second most successful two-year-old sire of all time on Sunday night, as the Richard Hughes-trained Nelson Gay (2 g ex Rublevka Star by Elusive Quality) landed a maiden at Southwell to bring up his... Read More