Blue Diamond Stakes runner-up Revolutionary Miss a fifth starter in the world’s richest juvenile race for the prominent syndicator The 1995 Golden Slipper (Gr 1, 1200m) has, so far, had the greatest impact of any two-year-old race on Triple Crown Syndications, even though the business itself was not established until more than a decade later.... Read More

The retiring Murray Baker and his training partner Andrew Forsman provided a toast to the past and a glimpse to the future after lightly raced filly Lickety Split (Turn Me Loose) upstaged her more fancied rivals in yesterday’s Sistema Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) in New Zealand. Hall Of Fame trainer Baker will bring his long... Read More

The Jerome Hunter-trained Barb Raider (3 f Rebel Raider – Graebarb by Host) recorded successive stakes-race victories when she produced a career-best performance to win the Kewney Stakes (Gr 2, 1600m) at Flemington yesterday. Last seen winning the The Vanity (Gr 3, 1400m), the three-year-old bravely fought off the late challenge of Kevin Hayes Stakes... Read More

The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained Lighthouse (5 m Mizzen Mast – More Hoping by North Light) became the second US import in three years to claim the Coolmore Classic (Gr 1, 1500m) for the fillies and mares when the gallant five-year-old galloped clear of her rivals in yesterday’s feature at Rosehill.  Lighthouse, owned by... Read More

History will tell you that New Zealand-breds are famed for their staying power, sought for their Classic generation potency, while their precocious antipodean cousins from across the Tasman are better known for their early, sprinting prowess. But yesterday, New Zealand breeders celebrated both a $101 boilover in one of Australia’s most iconic sprints and a... Read More