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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
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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
I Am Invincible just that in 2023-24
Champion sire closing in on breaking Australian prize-money record Australia’s twice reigning champion stallion I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit) could break the all-time general sires’ prize-money record as soon as this weekend – with almost four months of the racing season still to go. And if the record of $29,243,613, set in 2017-2018 by four-time... Read More
Orchestral on song as she lands Vinery
NZ Derby winner draws comparisons to Anamoe after Rosehill success on Australian debut James McDonald compared Orchestral (Savabeel) to the champion Anamoe (Street Boss) after New Zealand’s latest female superstar was crowned the trans-Tasman queen of racing on taking the Vinery Stud Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m) in her Australian debut on Saturday. She was given... Read More