Veight shines at Moonee Valley
given another opportunity to add a Group 1 to his record this preparation after he made a winning return in the Australia Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) at Moonee Valley yesterday. The colt became the first three-year-old to win the Group 2 since Holler (Commands) in 2016 when he defeated the Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained... Read More
Brave Mead leads home smart Manfred Stakes field
Brave Mead (Brave Smash) provided another boost for his emerging sire and another late stakes win for Ciaron Maher and David Eustace with a commanding all-the-way victory in yesterday’s Manfred Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) at Caulfield. Having become Brave Smash’s maiden black–type victor with a Listed two-year-old win at The Valley last March, Brave Mead... Read More
Royal Meeting on the board with Hayasugi
Bargain weanling purchase Hayasugi (Royal Meeting) became the first winner – and stakes-winner – for her Victoria-based sire in producing a storming finish to take out the fillies’ Blue Diamond Preview (Gr 3, 1000m) at Caulfield yesterday. Bought by James Bester Bloodstock and associates at the Inglis Australian Weanling Sale of 2022 for just $47,500,... Read More
High Octane full throttle in Blue Diamond Preview
Newgate Farm, the China Horse Club and Snowden Racing flexed their two-year-old muscle with a one-two finish as High Octane (Deep Field) beat home Holmes A Court (Capitalist) in the colts and geldings’ Blue Diamond Preview (L, 1000m) at Caulfield yesterday. High Octane – Deep Field’s (Northern Meteor) most expensive yearling as a $1.05 million... Read More
‘I haven’t seen that sort of enthusiasm for the industry for a long, long time’
NZB confident of renewed middle market on back of Entain, Ready to Run investment The next six days is why New Zealand Bloodstock exists and the auction house’s managing director Andrew Seabrook is for the first time in many years not feeling the pressure. On the eve of Sunday’s opening session of the 98th NZB... Read More
MONEY TALKS
$1.05 million buy High Octane heads the betting for intriguing Blue Diamond Preview Newgate Farm will be hoping money talks when two of the highest-priced yearlings by their stallions Deep Field (Northern Meteor) and Capitalist (Written Tycoon) go on show in the Blue Diamond Preview (C&G) (Listed, 1000m) at Caulfield today. Bred and sold by... Read More