Nothin Leica Storm (Anabaa) – winner of a Cessnock maiden and a sometimes fertile broodmare – has become a million-to-one horse.  It cost Mackay breeder Paul Maguire just $1,000 to buy the daughter of Anabaa (Danzig), fresh from a not very good 12th of 12 at Port Macquarie, after she’d been passed in at the... Read More

Maher outlasts stallion syndicates to add top prospect to stable as three further lots pass $1 million barrier A colt described as a “once in a lifetime” horse and one of the last to be offered to market by Not A Single Doubt (Redoute’s Choice), lit up the second session of the Magic Millions Gold... Read More

Exactly a month after suffering multiple injuries in a Sha Tin fall, Zac Purton notched his 50th victory of the 2021/22 season as the champion hoop revived hopes of a fifth jockeys’ crown with a successful return at Happy Valley yesterday. Competing for the first time since December 12, Purton had to wait until the... Read More

Zac Purton’s return to action at Happy Valley tonight after a month on the sideline throws the spotlight back on to his title race tussle with Joao Moreira but, while that particular rivalry has been a Hong Kong sub-plot for eight years now, a compelling, and perhaps inevitable, new head-to-head is brewing in the trainers’... Read More

Shane Nichols had his heart set on buying the first foal out of his Group 1-winning mare I Am A Star (I Am Invincible) but he admits the Deep Field (Northern Meteor) colt’s price tag saw him pushed to the limit. “Eight hundred thousand is $800,000,” trainer Nichols said of Lot 125, the fifth highest-priced... Read More

Trilogy Racing is determined to make an impact – and fast – and there’s arguably no better way than doing that than by joining forces with one of the most successful colts partnerships of the past decade.  Not yet 12 months in existence, and already with a rapidly growing bloodstock portfolio under management, the NSW... Read More