An imperious Romantic Warrior (Acclamation) made light work of five rivals at Sha Tin on Sunday afternoon by winning a second Hong Kong Gold Cup (Gr 1, 2000m) for Danny Shum and James McDonald, following on from his success in 2024. Sauntering to a four-length victory in the Triple Crown’s second leg, which follows his... Read More

Ryan Arnel had a hunch he was doing the right thing in 2014 when he bought a property near Eddington, between Ballarat and his home town Bendigo, on which to produce racehorses. For a start there was a babbling brook running through it, and he liked the sound of it in more ways than one.... Read More

A combination of two expert judges of fillies by Zoustar (Northern Meteor), a powerful cross, and the buying power of Ozzie Kheir combined to produce the top lot on a particularly strong first day of trading at the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale at Oaklands. Lot 238, the second foal out of $1.2 million prize-money earner... Read More

Golden Slipper (Gr 1, 1200m) aspirations crystallised at Randwick on Saturday as Spicy Miss (Trapeze Artist) and Campione D’Italia (Snitzel) claimed their respective Group 2 races, each earning a coveted berth in the $5 million juvenile feature. Spicy Miss took the stage first and kicked off her trainer Ciaron Maher’s fantastic afternoon when she produced... Read More

Shortly after Tempted’s Surround Stakes win, her stablemate Observer (Ghaiyyath) parlayed the success for Ciaron Maher and Godolphin with his classy triumph in the Australian Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) at Flemington. The versatile son of Ghaiyyath (Dubawi) claimed the VRC Derby (Gr 1, 2500m) last November and resumed in February with a win over the... Read More