Victorian syndicators Mark Player and Rob Roulston may have come away with an old-fashioned Inglis Classic “steal” in buying a filly from Newgate Farm’s draft yesterday.  Lot 392 looked one of the choice offerings of the sale, a bay by the all-conquering I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit) out of stakes-placed two-year-old winner Athena Lass (Snitzel). ... Read More

Gordon Bray is a name known to many Australians through various sports – chiefly rugby union, the Olympics and cricket – through more than five decades in TV and radio commentary.  Horseracing might not quickly spring to mind, but he’s been a player in the field for a good while (and with quite some success,... Read More

Burgeoning trainer Annabel Neasham was thrilled to yesterday snare the first yearling offered anywhere by the latest son of Deep Impact (Sunday Silence) to hit the sales ring, hoping she may have bought an Oaks filly for a bargain $140,000. Staphanos – a four time winner and triple Group 1 runner-up in Japan and Hong... Read More

Blake Ryan wants to make it as a trainer and, ten months after launching his fledgling stable at Hawkesbury, the son of Group 1-winning horseman Gerald was pounding the pavement at Riverside Stables yesterday inspecting Inglis Classic yearlings he hopes could become his flag bearers. While the Wallers, Waterhouses, Cummings’ and his father were at... Read More

Everyone told Neil Osborne he was mad when he bought Mane Lodge for $400,000 around 40 years ago. It was the early-80s – a time of big hair, synthesisers and shoulder pads, and some pretty grotesque interest rates as well. For Osborne to make it he’d have to abide with not just stallions and mares... Read More