Status quo maintained at Novara Park
Novara Park’s stallion line up remains unchanged for 2024, with all four of its stallions maintaining their 2023 service fees. Deep Impact’s (Sunday Silence) son Staphanos got off to a great start with his debut crop led by Group 1 winner Pignan, and that debut crop who are now three-year-olds have continued to progress at... Read More
Patient Peters snaps up weanlings for racing team
Western Australian owner and breeder Bob Peters and his grandson Liam Peters also made an early impression, buying two weanling colts – a $280,000 filly by So You Think (High Chaparral) and a $260,000 son of Toronado (High Chaparral) – to add to the familiar cerise and white silks’ racing division either in Perth or... Read More
Boomer buys I Am Invincible colt for end user
Another foal-shared weanling to sell during the opening session was an I Am Invincible half-brother to Group 2-winner Shades Of Rose (Rubick) and Group 3-winner Scallopini (Snitzel). Boomer Bloodstock’s Craig Rounsell spent $360,000 on behalf of a client who intends to race the son of the record-breaking stallion. Offered by Yarraman Park Stud, he is... Read More
Kaha Nui makes mark during Australian Weanling Sale session
Kiwis snap up I Am Invincible filly at record-breaking Inglis Sydney foal sale A $575,000 I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit) filly and a colt by $370,000 Capitalist (Written Tycoon), the two-highest priced foals sold during a record-breaking opening Inglis Australian Weanling Sale session on Monday, will head to New Zealand. The high-priced weanlings were purchased... Read More
Seth looking super
The two-year-olds took centre stage of Saturday’s New Zealand racing and the Listed race at Te Rapa resulted in Waikato Stud’s Super Seth (Dundeel) siring Super Photon, his first New Zealand black-type winner. Linebacker (Super Seth), who landed the TL Baillieu Handicap (Gr 3, 1400m) on March 30th and ran second in the Champagne Stakes... Read More
Yarraman pays tribute to I Am Invincible
Yarraman Park has acknowledged the momentous milestone achieved by its champion stallion I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit) after adding another record to his glittering CV since retiring to stud. A runaway leader on the Australian general sires’ premiership, I Am Invincible has surged past Snitzel’s (Redoute’s Choice) seasonal prize–money record, set back in the 2017/2018... Read More