Opening Group 1 of the season brings about family affair
It’s the most wonderful time of the year… That was an Andy Williams song, written about Christmas, but sod that. For those of us besotted with another, more enduring season, it applies to right now. The sun shines, the warmer breezes of spring fill the lungs, the mares are foaling, and the most alluring races,... Read More
Flying Mascot the star of the show as she sells for $600,000 on Inglis Digital
Arrowfield Stud come out on top for Flying Start Syndications’ mare as Gin Martini also finds buyer Talented mare Flying Mascot (Tavistock) provided her owners Flying Start Syndications with a memorable result yesterday when she was purchased by Arrowfield Stud for a sale-topping $600,000 via the Inglis Digital August (Late) Sale. Originally bought from the... Read More
Hello Youmzain youngsters star at Arqana
The Arqana buying bench took a healthy shine to the progeny of Cambridge Stud’s young shuttle stallion Hello Youmzain (Kodiac) at the August Yearling Sale at Deauville. The two-time Group 1 winner’s youngsters were keenly sought after with 20 through the ring and 19 sold for €2,447,000 (approx. NZ$4.5 million) at an average of €128,789... Read More
From Arqana August to Australia
Recent history tells us that the action at this week’s yearling sales in France are likely to have a bearing on Australia’s best races in the coming years. They have been selling yearlings at Deauville in August since 1887. But in that long history no sale has reached the heights of the 2023 Arqana August... Read More
Ace colts step out at Rosehill barrier trials with Group 1 ambitions
Coolmore, Golden Rose and Caulfield Guineas on agenda for partnership’s three-year-olds The Newgate Farm-China Horse Club colts syndicate has a strong hand heading into the new racing season, and yesterday the powerful partnership provided a glimpse of the cards they have to play this spring. With ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) and Champagne... Read More
‘You would be hard pressed to find a top trainer in Australia who hasn’t trained a good graduate’
Sale success to hold Inglis Ready2Race offering in good stead Inglis last night released its catalogue for the 2023 Ready2Race Sale as the company, and its competitors in the two-year-old breeze-up space, head into uncharted territory, the likely absence of Singapore racing’s owners and trainers. The auction house’s Sebastian Hutch hopes that the loss of... Read More