Tony Cruz and Angus Chung combine with Stunning Peach for Year Of The Horse Cup glory
Tony Cruz will target Hong Kong’s elite 2000-metre races with Stunning Peach (Wootton Bassett) after the Irish-bred fulfilled long-held promise with dramatic victory in the Class 2 The Year Of The Horse Cup Handicap (1600m) at Sha Tin on Thursday. Ridden by Angus Chung, Stunning Peach fended off a desperate late challenge from Top Dragon... Read More
Bel Esprit dies aged 26
Bel Esprit (Royal Academy), the influential stallion best known as the sire of unbeaten champion sprinter Black Caviar, has died at the age of 26. Widden Stud announced on Thursday that the son of Royal Academy (Nijinsky) had succumbed to the effects of old age. The announcement of his death comes days before the Blue... Read More
Mills strikes online for $525,000 to snare Ridgeport’s Zoustar filly in Perth
Sparks flew early on day one of Thursday’s Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale when a filly by Australia’s reigning champion sire Zoustar (Northern Meteor) out of Group 3 winner Lubiton (Snitzel) topped proceedings, selling to Sheamus Mills Bloodstock for $525,000. Mills, bidding online from his home state of Victoria, delivered the final blow to outlast... Read More
Weeping Woman
Lonhro (Octagonal) over Street Cry (Machiavellian) and a tripling of the great Mr. Prospector (Raise A Native) are among the forces behind Weeping Woman, who claimed her second successive black type victory and fourth straight win in Saturday’s Triscay Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) at Randwick on Saturday. The Joe Pride–trained five-year-old is the latest star... Read More
Roll The Dice aiming to gatecrash the Blue Diamond party
This Saturday’s meeting at Caulfield shapes as a potentially defining day for Roll The Dice Racing with the syndicator’s first ever runner in the Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) set to be joined by one of the leading chances in the Oakleigh Plate (Gr 1, 1100m), A joint purchase with Mick Price Racing and... Read More
Strong buying bench and star graduates fuel confidence ahead of Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale
Western Australia’s premier yearling auction returns to the Swan Valley this week, with 358 lots catalogued for the 2026 Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale, which gets underway on Thursday. The two-day auction brings together a broad cross-section of yearlings by proven Western Australian stallions with a wave of emerging sires. All told, a total of... Read More