St Jean (Teofilo), the previously unheralded sire of this year’s Melbourne Cup (Gr 1, 3200m) winner Half Yours, has died after a paddock accident at Brackley Park. The 15-year-old’s death on Tuesday morning comes less than a month after Half Yours ended a 52-year drought for Victorian breeding in the Cup. Brackley Park principal Grant... Read More

She may be the small filly taking on some seasoned sprinters, but local trainer Trevor Andrews insists Luana Miss (Bivouac) is well capable of punching above her light weight as he gets set to unleash his stable star on Saturday’s Winterbottom Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m). The experienced Ascot horseman has celebrated eight Group 1 wins... Read More

A pre-Christmas juvenile winner for So You Think (High Chaparral) is a rarity, so if his two-year-old filly Almost An Angel can make it two from two in the Merson Cooper Stakes (Listed, 1000m) at Caulfield this Saturday it would deliver another posthumous accolade and further enhance the legacy of Coolmore’s late globetrotting trailblazer.  Almost... Read More

West Australian-based stallion Manhattan Rain (Encosta De Lago) sealed a feature double on the other side of the country when the born-again Jigsaw won the second edition of Cranbourne slot race The Meteorite (1200m) on Saturday. Geisel Park Stud will have been cheering loudly when emerging Manhattan Rain four-year-old Sabaj took the Cranbourne Cup at... Read More

Watch Me Rock (Awesome Rock) raised his West Australian–based sire’s first elite-level winner and gave jockey William Pike a huge decision to make on streaking to victory in the first top-tier feature of the Perth summer, the Railway Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m). Pike steered the Grant and Alana Williams trained five-year-old gelding to a clear-cut... Read More