Newgate buys into ‘special’ Ozzmosis
The Newgate Farm-China Horse Club colts partnership has made a multimillion dollar investment in trainer Bjorn Baker’s unbeaten juvenile colt Ozzmosis (Zoustar) on the back of his impressive Randwick victory last Saturday. Newgate’s Henry Field and his large group of partners swooped on the Darby Racing-owned colt after renowned ratings analyst Daniel O’Sullivan gave his... Read More
$20.3 million hike for Kiwi racing
Welcome New Zealand prize-money boost on eve of NZB National Sale An additional NZ$20.3 million in prize-money will be distributed to New Zealand’s thoroughbred participants next season as the first injection of cash is accounted for courtesy of the recently inked 25-year Entain-TAB NZ deal. Prize-money increases for the financially strained New Zealand industry will... Read More
Nordic Dragon posts fifth win of the season as emerging talents surface at Happy Valley
Nordic Dragon (Starspangledbanner) crowned an excellent debut season – and took his prize money earnings beyond his purchase price of HK$7 million (approx. AU$1.3 million) – to headline a string of impressive performances at Happy Valley on yesterday evening with victory in the Class 2 Cricket Club Valley Stakes Handicap (1200m). Notching his fifth win... Read More
Plenty to cheer about ahead of New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Weanling and Broodmare Sale
New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2023 National Weanling and Broodmare Sale takes place tomorrow, featuring 170 weanlings (after withdrawals). It will be a full day of trade and the weanling numbers alone represent an increase of 60 lots compared with the 2022 sale which turned out to be quite buoyant. Broodmares, which haven’t been part of this... Read More
King Colorado
Ciaron Maher and David Eustace powered to their 11th Group 1 of the season on Saturday when King Colorado (Kingman) – a colt with a scintillating pedigree in more ways than one – took the JJ Atkins Plate (Gr 1, 1600m) at Eagle Farm. The all-conquering stable’s surge towards its first national premiership this season... Read More
Snowden eyes stallion potential in Royal Ascot-bound Cannonball
Three-year-old son of Capitalist and Coolangatta continued their preparations for next week’s King’s Stand Stakes with an on-course gallop yesterday In a long and decorated training career, Peter Snowden has built a reputation for cultivating the stud careers of some of Australia’s most precocious equine talent, a feat no more exemplified than when delivering the... Read More