French Endeavour (AUS)
2 f Rubick – French News by Anabaa O: Hobartville Stud Pty Ltd B: Hobartville Stud T: Matthew Smith W: Furphy Maiden Plate, 1100m, July 19, Warwick Farm A move to stakes company this spring looks to be on the cards for juvenile filly French Endeavour (Rubick) after she broke her maiden at the second... Read More
Miss Roseiano finishes on high for Gelagotis family
Miss Roseiano (Exceed And Excel), who was sold to Coolmore for $1.275 million through Inglis Digital this week, only had one official barrier trial in her career, on January 11 last year, 15 days before her Blue Diamond Preview (F) (Gr 3, 1000m) win, the only one of her 12-start career. The Peter Gelagotis-trained filly... Read More
MISSION POSSIBLE
IRT hold high-powered talks with Singapore Turf Club about repatriating horses An estimated 200 thoroughbreds will need to be relocated to other racing jurisdictions or repatriated to Australia when racing ceases in Singapore no later than October next year. International Racehorse Transport (IRT) has been looking at ways to deal with the massive logistical exercise... Read More
Lindsay Park’s Little Brose up for grabs, but when?
Hayes’ plan Group 1 spring for Blue Diamond-winning Per Incanto colt JD Hayes has laid down the welcome mat to stud farms, urging them to express their interest if they are wanting to buy into Lindsay Park’s Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Little Brose (Per Incanto), one of four juvenile colts to win... Read More
Coco Sun
Ali and Frazier. Sampras and Agassi. Redoute’s and Encosta. Amid some of sport’s greatest rivalries, the battle between the last pair has become one of the tightest, and most engrossing, Australia’s thoroughbred landscape has enjoyed. There’s one major difference, of course: the competition between Redoute’s Choice (Danehill), born in 1996, and Encosta De Lago (Fairy... Read More
European star Paddington enters the Cox Plate reckoning
Paddington (Siyouni), the breakout star of the European season, could be headed to Australia for the $5 million Cox Plate (Gr 1, 2040m) after connections described a tilt at the Moonee Valley contest as “tempting and exciting”. Coolmore’s Tom Magnier revealed the potential surprise move on the day it was announced that next month’s International... Read More