Kiwis do early legwork ahead of this week’s New Zealand Bloodstock two-year-old sale If Graeme Rogerson’s experience is any guide, agents and buyers intending to participate in this week’s New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale have heeded the call to undertake their pre-auction work early. The two-day sale of juveniles, the largest of the... Read More

Victory in the Group 1 brought up the trainers 50th elite level winner and Savabeel’s 26th  Just when you thought Jamie Richards couldn’t get anymore dominant, the young trainer took his career into another stratosphere yesterday when The Perfect Pink (Savabeel) landed the New Zealand 1,000 Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) at Riccarton, leading home an... Read More

Fast stakes-winning Karakontie mare Karak continues strong Australian interest in US breeding stock market Kestrel Thoroughbreds’ Bruce Slade made his first successful foray into the US mare market on day two of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale as southern hemisphere breeders continued to plunder Kentucky in search of outcross pedigrees. Slade teamed up with... Read More

Magic Millions’ juvenile auction exceeds expectations in face of closed border with three youngsters breaking $300,000 mark A colt by sire of the moment Extreme Choice (Not A Single Doubt) will head to Victoria after Baystone Farm’s Dean Harvey made a strategic call to target the juvenile at yesterday’s Magic Millions 2YOs In Training Sale... Read More

Breeding and racing operation’s bold stallion switch rewarded with yet another spring carnival Group 1 success Earlier this year, Godolphin made the bold call to switch stallion Street Boss (Street Cry) to Darley’s Hunter Valley base from Victoria and send Kermadec (Teofilo) south to Northwood Park, moves which had the potential to upset some of... Read More