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I Am Invincible proves Australia’s best after another stunning season
Yarraman Park’s star sire scores breakthrough general sires’ premiership I Am Invincible’s (Invincible Spirit) crowning moment, his and Yarraman Park’s maiden champion Australian sire title, has been more than five decades in the making for the Mitchell family. The studmasters have ridden the inevitable highs and lows of the industry and reached the pinnacle when... Read More
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Moir Stakes on the radar of Lightning Lucky
The sire phenomenon that is Extreme Choice (Not A Single Doubt) again showed his potent prowess in the breeding shed and may have another future star to add to his progeny CV, after the Will Clarken-trained Extremely Lucky (3 g ex Tamarind Lane by Stratum) delivered an outstanding performance to swoop from last to first... Read More
Pearce collecting a fleet of high-class broodmares
Bill Pearce, once a large-scale breeder of standardbreds before turning his attention to thoroughbreds, has been enjoying a quick winter escape in Far North Queensland but his growing breeding and racing interests are not far from the front of his mind. The Bromfield Park principal has made an increasing investment in the high-end broodmare market,... Read More
Bourne hoping Lightning strikes in Adelaide
David “Butch” Bourne’s dilligence more than two years ago, along with an ounce of good fortune, has paved the way for the Seymour-based trainer to chase the fifth stakes win of his nearly four-decade racing career. Ojosan, a $50,000 filly purchased by Bourne for owner Mike Howard at the 2020 Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale,... Read More
McDonald gets feel for Snitzel colt in late-season Randwick barrier trial
The new owners of talented rising three-year-old Best Of Bordeaux (Snitzel), potentially the best colt of his generation, got to see a glimpse of their high-profile purchase, with a low-key barrier trial in Sydney yesterday. With James McDonald in the saddle for the first time, and wearing Coolmore’s synonymous blue silks, noted on-pacer Best Of... Read More
Yarraman’s Vinnie is King after Sparta battles to win Bletchingly Stakes
I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit) has completed his rags-to-riches rise to the pinnacle of Australian breeding as he all but secured a maiden sires’ premiership yesterday courtesy of a battling success in the Bletchingly Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) at Caulfield from his son King Of Sparta (3 g I Am Invincible – Octavia by Holy... Read More