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Promising Snitzel filly proves Ir-Resistible for Bell River
Raw Freedman-trained juvenile to aim up at Life Members Stakes at Eagle Farm with view to spring targets Bell River Thoroughbreds’ Ferguson family are no strangers to racing quality fillies and they hope they have another one on their hands in the form of Resistible (Snitzel), a dominant first-start winner at Newcastle earlier this month.... Read More
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Kiwi Rolston to join Hong Kong Jockey Club in International Sale and owners role
New Zealand Bloodstock will not be rushed into finding director of sales replacement at Karaka complex Long-serving New Zealand Bloodstock employee Danny Rolston will join the Hong Kong Jockey Club in a new position overseeing the International Sale while also liaising with the organisation’s influential cohort of racehorse owners. Rolston has been appointed as the... Read More
Bargain Wanda out to justify owners’ decision to hold on for Tiara
The owners of consistent mare Wandabaa (Wandjina) could easily have cashed in the Group 3 winner at last month’s breeding stock sales but instead the syndicate elected to race her at the Queensland carnival in the knowledge they could be leaving money on the table by doing so. The Kris Lees-trained rising six-year-old mare has... Read More
‘You don’t want to count chickens, because we’ve been close before, but it’ll be hard for So You Think to run him down from here’
I Am Invincible’s (Invincible Spirit) ascension from a non-Group 1 winning, $11,000 hit-and-hope stallion into Australia’s undisputed champion sire could effectively be sealed today, with Yarraman Park’s titan holding a stronger hand across the country than close rival So You Think (High Chaparral). The battle at the top of the general sires table has been... Read More
Brazen Beau’s The Ridler lands Norfolk Stakes
Australia’s remarkable Royal Ascot continued on the third day, this time through the exploits of Darley stallion Brazen Beau (I Am Invincible), who claimed a notable juvenile scalp when his son The Ridler ran out a controversial and shock winner of the Norfolk Stakes (Gr 2, 5f) Brazen Beau, who finished second in the 2015... Read More
The Aussies are back
Nature Strip out to end unfinished business for sire Nicconi in King’s Stand Stakes on opening day of Royal Ascot Royal Ascot organisers are delighted with the ‘stronger than usual’ contingent of horses to have jetted from Australia to take on Europe and the world’s best at the five-day extravaganza, which begins with keen anticipation... Read More