Expectations high as Yulong’s foaling season kicks off
A host of star mares including Hungry Heart and Away Game set to deliver first produce Yulong Stud’s mammoth investment in broodmares in recent years is about to bear some of its most royally bred fruit, as a selection of Australia’s better-performed modern racemares prepare to deliver their first foals at the Victorian farm. Five... Read More
Belardo Boy strikes in Winter Cup
Awapuni visitor Belardo Boy (Belardo) claimed the first stakes race of the new season when he came with a determined late run to capture the Winter Cup (Gr 3, 1600m) at Riccarton yesterday. The Lisa Latta-trained five-year-old had been blocked for a run when finishing seventh in the Opunake Cup (Listed, 1400m) at his last... Read More
Progressive mare I Am Me leads them a merry dance in Missile Stakes
Season’s stakes-race opener goes the way of Dynamic Syndications’ colour bearer in an all-the-way triumph A slight drop back in grade yesterday saw I Am Me (I Am Invincible) land her maiden Group-race success as she dominated the Missile Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) at Rosehill, the opening stakes contest of the season in Sydney. Having... Read More
Warlords
TRAINER: Trent Busuttin and Natalie YoungRACE: VRC Member Matthew Hodder Plate (1410m) Following a taking winning debut at Sale last month, the Trent Busttin and Natalie Young-trained Warlords (Saxon Warrior) will make the jump up to Saturday company today when he contests the VRC Member Matthew Hodder Plate (1410m) at Flemington. Having been sent off... Read More
Missile shapes as a last chance saloon for regally bred Argentia
Breeding barn beckons if Frankel mare doesn’t fire at Rosehill for her new trainer Pride Regally-bred stakes-winning mare Argentia (Frankel) could be on her last chance to forestall a second scheduled retirement to the breeding barn in Sydney’s first black type race of the season for new trainer Joe Pride today. John Camilleri’s five-year-old, a... Read More
‘I loved working with the horses and going to the races’
Katherine Coleman is one of the most impressive and respected young people in Australian racing and on Tuesday the 30-year-old enjoyed a breakthrough moment saddling her first winner as co-trainer with Peter Moody when Runsir (Fighting Sun) won at Pakenham. It didn’t take the new partnership long to double their tally, with Insulation (Intello) scoring... Read More