Owner has no regrets in retaining his Widden Stud-based stallion who enters a third covering season at $66,000 Bert Vieira rejected a $36 million offer for Trapeze Artist (Snitzel) as a stallion prospect but, two years into the sire’s stud career, he has no regrets about retaining ownership rather than cashing in on the champion... Read More

Galileo (Sadler’s Wells), the sire of 338 individual stakes winners, including 91 at Group 1 level as he became one of the most decorated sires of all time with his offspring including the likes of Frankel and Australia, has died aged 23. Coolmore Stud, where the 12-time champion sire stood throughout his record-breaking career, announced... Read More

Cornerstone Stud’s Sam Hayes was midway through a mandatory two weeks of isolation on his South Australian property when Belle Of Yorkes rattled down the Murray Bridge straight to score a breakthrough win on Saturday. The neck-margin maiden victory by the Jon O’Connor-trained Belle Of Yorkes, who is by Cornerstone Stud’s first crop shuttler Sir... Read More

Fresh from siring a hat-trick of winners at Royal Ascot last week, Yeomanstown Stud stallion Dark Angel (Acclamation) will be offered to serve a limited number of mares on southern hemisphere time this year.  The ever-improving grey, who has risen from an opening fee of €10,000 to his current mark of €60,000 (approx. AU$95,100), has... Read More

From subfertile to sire sensation: how Starspangledbanner has defied the odds It has been 11 years since Starspangledbanner (Choisir) burst onto the European scene with a dazzling display of brazen speed in the Golden Jubilee Stakes (Gr 1, 6f) at Royal Ascot. That was, of course, after a highly successful time in his native Australia,... Read More