Too Darn Hot returns to Darley’s Kelvinside base where he will stand for a fee of $275,000 In an exciting coup for Australian breeders, Darley have announced that elite stallion Too Darn Hot (Dubawi) will return to Kelvinside for the 2025 southern hemisphere breeding season, where he will stand for a fee of $275,000 (inc... Read More

After victory for Scenic Point (Written Tycoon) extended their lead in the chase to be crowned Australia’s most prolific trainers of juveniles, Lindsay Park set about replenishing their stable stock by acquiring three yearlings at the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale, including a colt whose dam is close to the Hayes brothers’ hearts. Having been taught... Read More

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