Purton makes inroads into Moreira’s gaping jockeys’ championship lead with a four-timer
Zac Purton’s pursuit of a fifth Hong Kong jockeys’ championship has continued with a Sha Tin quartet, capped by the success of Glorious Artist (Zoffany) in the Class 2 Cuckoo Handicap (dirt, 1650m), as he reduced Joao Moreira’s still imposing lead to 18. With a dead-heat on Lucky Fun (Proisir) and outright victories aboard Hang’s... Read More
Last of Bonnie Mac’s progeny expected to be sought after at Inglis Easter
Sale of Capitalist half-brother to Exceedance will be bittersweet for breeder Allam Stakes-winning race mare and exceptionally talented broodmare Bonnie Mac (Thorn Park) will have the last of her progeny go through the ring at the 2021 Australian Inglis Easter Yearling Sale in Tuesday’s opening session. Bonnie Mac, the dam of Group 1 winner Exceedance... Read More
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If you take an only sometimes fertile, thousand-dollar mare and put her with a misfiring first season stallion and get her in foal, that’s a result, right? If you can then sell the mare for $90,000, you’d be clicking your heels. But if the product of that mating goes on to win the most influential... Read More
B2B Thoroughbreds’ Surace takes bigger picture outlook with Easter draft
Ongoing property development likely to see breeder retain more horses to race Ricky Surace’s ongoing investment in state-of-the-art equine infrastructure at his boutique property B2B Thoroughbreds in the NSW Southern Highlands has forced the Sydney owner and breeder to withdraw his draft ahead of next week’s Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale. After taking ownership of... Read More
“The future belongs to those who plan for it”
Tony McEvoy celebrated his 60th birthday, in his hometown of Streaky Bay, last Sunday. That birthday milestone would spell imminent retirement in most professions. Not if you are a racehorse trainer. McEvoy-Mitchell Racing remains very much in the now and with an eye to the future which he explained, appropriately enough, from the hut atop... Read More
After Dubai all eyes are on the Osaka Hai
Forget Dubai – at least for a moment – the Takamatsunomiya Kinen (Gr 1, 1200m) at Chukyo was last weekend’s standout race. Danon Smash (Lord Kanaloa) edged the crack filly Resistencia (Daiwa Major) in Japan’s springtime sprint showpiece, with top-class miler Indy Champ (Stay Gold) enjoying his new beat in third. As the trio flashed... Read More