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Blueblood colts primed to extend Godolphin’s purple patch
With Godolphin Australia currently riding the crest of a wave, managing director Andy Makiv is hopeful a trio of blueblood colts can ensure another red-letter day for the racing and breeding behemoth when the curtain is raised on the acclaimed Melbourne Cup Carnival at Flemington this coming Saturday. Buoyed by Godolphin’s triple stakes success last... Read More
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Southern hemisphere buyers set to play a starring role at Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Sale
The Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Sale (HIT) gets underway in Newmarket on Monday and it is a sale that has become an annual pilgrimage for many buyers from the southern hemisphere, who are expected to be active once again this week. The Newmarked-based auction, the world’s largest horses in training sale, has built a... Read More
Breathtaking Attica bags Spring Champion
Attica (Lonhro) capped a golden day for Godolphin colts and his departed stallion while stamping himself a stud-bound star of the future with a breathtaking victory in Saturday’s Spring Champion Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m) at Randwick. Sent out a $4 second-favourite at the fourth start of his first preparation, the Joe Pride-trained colt faced an... Read More
Napoleonic marches to Red Anchor glory
Outstanding stallion Wootton Bassett (Iffraaj) may be gone but he might have left a potential stallion in the making in Napoleonic if Saturday’s Red Anchor Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) is any indication. After wins at Wyong and Warwick Farm for his trainers John O’Shea and Tom Charlton, the three-year-old colt took his Sydney form to... Read More
Bargain buy Salty Pearl lands Fillies Classic
After waiting more than a year for his first Group winner, Yulong Stud stallion Tagaloa (Lord Kanaloa) now has two in the space of a week after bargain buy Salty Pearl won Saturday’s Fillies Classic (Gr 2, 1600m) at Moonee Valley. A week after two-year-old Listed winner Spicy Lu scored Tagaloa’s Group breakthrough in Caulfield’s... Read More
History maker
Via Sistina lands titanic Cox Plate as Waller and McDonald rewrite record books Via Sistina (Fastnet Rock) became the oldest mare to land the Cox Plate (Gr 1, 2040m) when she joined an elite list of dual winners in a fittingly classic edition of the race in its last staging at Moonee Valley before its... Read More