Lim’s Saltoro gives his all to claim final Singapore Derby
Lim’s Saltoro (Shamexpress) did not disappoint his connections and supporters after he fought hard to win the SGP$400,000 Singapore Derby (Listed, 1800m) on Sunday. History was made for the mighty Lim’s Stable, whose famous blue and yellow star silks dominated the Group races in Singapore over the last few years, trainer Daniel Meagher and jockey... Read More
‘I genuinely feel vendors in this part of the world are very well serviced by the auction houses’
Entries open for Inglis’ 2025 sales season The appetite from breeders to offer yearlings at select sales and the competition for places at Australasia’s premier thoroughbred auctions next year will be as hot as ever, according to Inglis’ Bloodstock chief executive Sebastian Hutch. His early assessment of the 2025 yearling market comes as Inglis officially... Read More
Golden Rose aim for Fastnet Rock colt Mayfair
Spring stakes races are on the radar for lightly raced colt Mayfair (2 c Fastnet Rock ex Cicatrix, by Violence) after he broke his maiden in a 1200-metre contest at Rosehill on Saturday. One of Newgate Farm-China Horse Club’s portfolio of colts, the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained juvenile was able to cross from barrier... Read More
Dominant Colmar delivers Rosemont’s Strasbourg his first stakes winner
Colmar (Strasbourg) showed his toughness and his speed to become the first stakes winner for Rosemont Stud’s first-season sire Strasbourg (I Am Invincible) when the gelding landed Saturday’s South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes (Gr 3, 1400m) at Morphettville. Trained at Murray Bridge by Ron Daniel and Trish Stanbury and ridden by Samuel Payne, Colmar bounced... Read More
Arrowfield’s Dundeel holds Derby Ace
Arrowfield stallion Dundeel (High Chaparral) already looks to hold a strong hand for the first staying Classic of the season – the VRC Derby (Gr 1, 2500m) – after his sons ran the quinella in Saturday’s traditional early lead-up at Flemington. The Nick Ryan-trained Red Aces (Dundeel) and Danny O’Brien’s Politely Dun (Dundeel) fought out... Read More
Lofty spring goals set for exciting colt First Settler
Written Tycoon colt will be targeted at the Coolmore Stud Stakes this spring The Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained colt First Settler (Written Tycoon) lived up to his small odds and large price-tag when he added further trimmings to Written Tycoon’s (Iglesia) two-year-old sires’ title by taking Saturday’s Russell Dawson Plate (1000m) at Flemington.... Read More