Currie posts memorable Sha Tin double after injury battle
Elated after the latest twist in a rollercoaster debut Hong Kong season, Luke Currie enjoyed a remarkable Sha Tin double for John Size yesterday to seal an inspiring return from injury. Likening victory aboard standby starter Touch Faith (Outreach) in the Class 5 Lau Fau Shan Handicap (1200m) to the emotion of major race success,... Read More
Fairhill Farm’s O’Donnell on cloud nine after Pierro filly fetches $400,000
Too Darn Hot, Toronado and Blue Point colts also find favour at Inglis Australian Weanling Sale Mike O’Donnell was sporting a million dollar smile after day one of the Inglis Australian Weanling Sale, having raked in more than $1.7 million at the Sydney foal sale where his Fairhill Farm operation set a new stud record... Read More
Jungle Magnate
It’s well known how success in breeding hinges on family connections. And now some such linkages – of the human kind – have led over several decades to a new stakes winner, in Adelaide last weekend. Around 1980, then-emerging breeder David Hains looked north, way north, and imported the Danish Oaks winner Love Song (Warpath),... Read More
Up and up for Toronado after first stakes winner in Hong Kong
Swettenham Stud stallion Toronado (High Chaparral) broke through for a milestone first stakes success in Hong Kong on Sunday when the Caspar Fownes-trained Senor Toba further franked the form of this year’s four-year-old Classic generation with victory in the Queen Mother Memorial Cup (Gr 3, 2400m) at Sha Tin. A fast-finishing fourth in the Hong... Read More
Bowman endorses Warrnambool May Carnival – Dunseath creates history
It would be gilding the lily to suggest that Hugh Bowman’s working holiday trek to the annual Warrnambool carnival has made it any grander. However, the appearance of the man who is arguably Australia’s most decorated current jockey given his international success which complements a domestic Group 1 winners tally second only to Damien Oliver,... Read More
‘To have a Hall of Famer go on and win a sire’s championship would be really special. It would be my proudest achievement’
Regal and beautiful. So You Think (High Chaparral) lived up to his very good looks on the racetrack. During the peak of his prowess, the ten-time Group 1 winner was the pin-up horse of Australian racing. Pictures of him staring through the gloriously thick forelock of his handsome head regularly adorned the front covers of... Read More