Eureka sticks solid with Spirit Of Boom at $44,000
Eureka Stud will maintain the status quo heading into the 2020 breeding season with its proven pin-up stallion Spirit Of Boom (Sequalo) to remain at an unchanged service fee this year on the basis that the outcross stallion fits a rare niche for breeders. The Group 1-winning Spirit Of Boom, who is in the top... Read More
Exceed And Excel colt with big engine joins Riverdene
NSW operation Riverdene Stud has called on Group 3-winning juvenile McLaren (Exceed And Excel) to bolster the Riverina-based farm’s stallion roster. The Canonbury Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m) winning McLaren, who was rated highly in the arsenal of valuable colts owned by the China Horse Club-Newgate Farm partnership, will stand for an introductory fee of $6,600... Read More
Exceedance’s fee set at $38,500 to headline Vinery roster
Exhilarating sprinter Exceedance (Exceed And Excel) will stand for the same fee as two of his first season contemporaries after Vinery Stud yesterday confirmed the Group 1 winner would head the Hunter Valley farm’s 2020 roster of six stallions. Successful in last year’s Coolmore Stud Stakes (registered as Ascot Vale Stakes) (Gr 1, 1200m), Exceedance’s... Read More
Newcomers Give Danny Wong a Double
Trainer Danny Wong has his hands on two nice newcomers in Number Zero (Showcasing) and Beautiful Eighteen (Epaulette) who both scored impressive wins on Saturday’s turf racecard. Number Zero was the first of Wong’s winners when he hit the line strongly under five pound claimer Eric Cheung to race away with the Class 4 over... Read More
First for Contributer
New winners Contributer – Mapperley Stud resident Contributer (High Chaparral) landed his first winner on Thursday when Lion’s Roar (2 g ex Minnaleo by Black Minnaloushe) took out the two-year-old handicap (1200m) at Wagga. Lion’s Roar was purchased for $65,000 by Champion Thoroughbreds out of the Wellfield Lodge draft at last year’s New Zealand Bloodstock... Read More
Deep Field on the rise after stellar season
Deep Field (Northern Meteor) has assumed top billing at Newgate Farm and will stand for an increased service fee this year, as the Hunter Valley stud attempts to manage the exciting stallion’s “book” with a view to his long-term future. The decision to set Deep Field’s fee at $55,000 (all fees inclusive of GST), up... Read More