Speedy Storyville gunning for unlikely Group 1 victory
Overshare filly bids to give Team Williams a fifth win in the Northerly Stakes toryville (Overshare), who was bred for speed and shows middle distance promise is rated a strong chance by bookmakers of becoming the latest Grant and Alana Williams-trained filly to lift the Northerly Stakes (Gr 1, 1800m) this Saturday. Team Williams have... Read More
Counting down
The NZB Karaka Yearling Sale catalogue is out and the countdown to the 2025 or 99th National Sale begins. Over the next eight weeks stakes races may impact, particularly sires, as well as pedigree pages as the results unfold and last Saturday’s New Zealand racing got the ball rolling. Buyers often react to current fashion... Read More
Ho and Bowman excel with Sha Tin trebles as Newnham slots three-timer
Vincent Ho completed preparations for his defence of the International Jockeys’ Championship (IJC) at Happy Valley on Wednesday night with a treble at Sha Tin on Sunday – a haul matched by Hugh Bowman and Mark Newnham. Four days after becoming only the 11th jockey to ride 600 or more winners in Hong Kong, Ho... Read More
‘Everything we hoped would happen did happen’
Victoria’s Woodside Park had quadruple cause for celebration on Saturday as they look ahead to hopefully more success – and more patronage from breeders – with stallions Shalaa (Invincible Spirit) and Vancouver (Medaglia D’Oro). First, Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou’s Eagle Nest (Shalaa) won Rosehill’s Starlight Stakes (Listed, 1100m), becoming his sire’s third stakes winner... Read More
Opportunities in abundance at the Tattersalls Mares Sale
Lots with southern hemisphere covers to Too Darn Hot headline ‘special’ catalogue Australian breeders were dealt a bitter blow when Darley announced that international sire sensation Too Darn Hot (Dubawi) would not be shuttling to the operation’s Kelvinside base this spring. Connections have stated that they remain open to travelling the son of Dubawi (Dubai... Read More
Amo Racing go to record-equalling 2,500,000gns for Chaldean’s Frankel sister
Amo Racing principal Kia Joorabchian picked up where he left off at Book 1 with the 2,500,000gns (approx. AU$5.13 million) acquisition of a Frankel (Galileo) sister to Chaldean during a dramatic session of the Tattersalls December Foal Sale on Friday. Whitsbury Manor Stud’s filly had been widely expected to prove the headline act of the... Read More