Misty Legend TRAINER: Richard and Will Freedman RACE: The Agency Real Estate Handicap (1100m) Prominent owner Bon Ho will be hoping to add a second two-year-old win in as many days at Randwick today when colt Misty Legend (I Am Invincible) bids to follow the winning exploits of Snippety Legend (Snitzel) at Sale yesterday. Misty... Read More

Larry Young’s Speriamo Bloodstock purchased the top lot from Arqana’s Summer Sale, which concluded on Thursday. Blandford Bloodstock’s Stuart Boman signed for the three-year-old filly La Filomena (Lope De Vega), who finished a last-start third in the Prix Melisande (Listed, 2000m) at Parislongchamp, going to €395,000 (approx. AU$647,525) to secure the daughter of Lope De... Read More

The New Zealand Bloodstock National Online Breeding Stock Sale is now live on Gavelhouse Plus.  The 54-lot catalogue possesses an opportunity for breeders to access some of New Zealand’s elite-performing families and bloodlines.  Among the offerings is a five-lot draft from Windsor Park Stud, which includes the stakes-placed Artiste (Mastercraftsman), who is a sister to... Read More

Shipment of 18 horses bought at three sales in May expected to leave next month Exports of Australian thoroughbreds to mainland China are set to resume next month after the lifting of the country’s tacit ban on the trade four years after it was imposed. Permits for the importation of horses from Australia to China... Read More

Zac Purton has become only the second jockey in Hong Kong racing history to ride 1,600 winners as the Australian continues a relentless quest of history following a treble at Happy Valley yesterday evening. Douglas Whyte (1,813 wins) is the only other jockey to reach the 1,600-win mark in Hong Kong and Purton’s three-timer leaves... Read More

We take a look at the unlikely record of the Sir John Monash Stakes, to be run at Caulfield this Saturday, when it comes to unearthing future stallions. A mid-winter sprinting stakes race is not often the platform for the breed shapers of the next generation, but on a cool winter’s day in July 2009,... Read More