Magic Millions heeds feedback and delays start of National Weanling Sale
Magic Millions has pushed back the start of its 2024 National Sale, condensing the up to three-week selling extravaganza on the Gold Coast in May and June into a fortnight. The auction house on Wednesday announced that its two-day National Weanling Sale would be held on Sunday, May 26 and Monday, May 27, with the... Read More
Globetrotting Benbatl to shuttle to Woodside Park
Group 1-winning son of champion sire Dubawi to make his way to Victoria Benbatl, a son of the globally influential Dubawi (Dubai Millennium) who gave Australia’s champion Winx (Street Cry) a huge fright in the 2018 Cox Plate (Gr 1, 2040m), will shuttle to Woodside Park Stud in 2024. The Eddie Hirsch-owned Victoria-based farm has... Read More
NZB release Online Yearling Sale catalogue on Gavelhouse Plus
New Zealand Bloodstock’s (NZB) 2024 National Online Yearling Sale is now live, with the 100-lot catalogue available to view on Gavelhouse Plus. For the fourth year, the digital edition to NZB’s National Yearling Sales Series is set to be conducted on the premium online platform Gavelhouse Plus with bidding closing on Wednesday, April 17, from... Read More
Racing NSW acquires Goulburn
Racing NSW will take ownership of Goulburn racecourse after members voted to transfer the club’s land freehold to the regulatory body. Goulburn District Racing Club members voted in favour of handing over the racecourse to Racing NSW during a general meeting on Tuesday night. ANZ Bloodstock News established that the members’ vote was carried 58-10... Read More
Snowden’s hoping ‘under the radar’ Fearless can come of age at Randwick
Son of Yulong’s Pierata attempts to land first stakes win in this weekend’s Inglis Sires’ Forecasts of an autumn carnival-style Biblical deluge and a feeling that Fearless (Pierata) has slipped under the radar has co-trainer Peter Snowden increasingly hopeful the colt can spring an upset in Saturday’s Inglis Sires’ (Gr 1, 1400m). At first glance,... Read More
Gray’s Kranji days are over as Kiwi walks out on Singapore
Last of the ‘originals’ to return to New Zealand after 24 years training in Asia Accomplished trainer Stephen Gray has announced he will quit Singaporean racing imminently after walking out of a meeting with government officials last month feeling dismayed. His Singapore training peers, which included fellow Kiwi expatriate Donna Logan, also left with a... Read More