You can have all the money in the world but it seems there’s one thing you can’t have: too much Snitzel. Breeding giant Coolmore isn’t short of cash, and they’ve used plenty of it to buy more and more sons of Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice) at the Inglis Easter sale. The mob from Jerry’s Plains already... Read More

Widden Stud flagbearer Zoustar (Northern Meteor) roared into action with two of the top three lots of the day – capped by a $2.6 million filly bought by American John Stewart – as a wildly successful, record-breaking Inglis Easter Yearling Sale concluded at Riverside on Monday. Bidding over the phone from Kentucky, Stewart of Resolute... Read More

As recently as March 25 this column discussed the results from the only two studs in the lower half of New Zealand’s North Island, Grangewilliam Stud in Waitotara and Little Avondale Stud in Masterton and the same two studs provided two of the stakes winners on day one of The Championships at Randwick . Evaporate... Read More

Continuing a prodigious rise among Hong Kong’s training ranks, David Eustace celebrated the first treble of his career in the city on Sunday afternoon at Sha Tin following the victories of Regency Happy Star (Lonhro), Good Luck Babe (Delago Deluxe) and Sea Sapphire (Husson). “I thought we were coming here with a strong team and... Read More

American John Stewart must be one of the more approachable billionaires going around. Trainer Calvin McEvoy wasn’t shy in hitting him up late last year via social media – a vehicle at which he was possibly more adept than father and co-trainer Tony. The result? The McEvoys teamed with the Resolute Racing boss to buy... Read More

Before the Easter sale, Segenhoe Stud’s Peter O’Brien described the farm’s son of Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice) and La Mexicana (I Am Invincible) as “an Adonis”. On Sunday the colt lived up to that statuesque billing, selling for $1.7 million to bloodstock giant James Herron, Tony Fung and his future trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott,... Read More