NSW trainer’s three-year disqualification over horse deaths stood aside

Leading Southern NSW trainer Trevor Sutherland has had a three-year disqualification thrown out by the Racing NSW Appeal Panel relating to the euthanasia of two retired racehorses he had re-homed to a third party prior to their death. Wagga-based Sutherland was yesterday in the process of re-applying for his trainer’s licence after the appeal victory... Read More

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They say fortune favours the bold, but it can scarcely have smiled more outrageously than it has on Mel Copelin and Brett Cornish since a daring day out at the sales four years ago.  The Torryburn Stud duo had a white-knuckle ride in securing broodmare Miss Interiors at the Inglis Chairman’s sale of 2017, beating... Read More

Murrulla Stud’s Tim Nolan has penalty reduced to 11 months on appeal over horse deaths

Hunter Valley nursery Murrulla Stud has been granted permission to continue to trade bloodstock, but its principal Tim Nolan will not be allowed to attend thoroughbred sales for the next 11 months after the NSW racing appeal panel yesterday handed down its decision relating to the death of two horses last year. Nolan was disqualified... Read More

Melbourne lawyers living Slipper dream with share in star colts Profiteer and Stay Inside

Couple hit the jackpot as Newgate swoops on stallion prospects in a matter of weeks Melbournian couple Nadia Angelo and Anna Dodgshun are on the equine ride of their lives, sharing in the ownership of arguably Australia’s most valuable two-year-old colts, leading Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) seeds Profiteer (Capitalist) and Stay Inside (Extreme... Read More

“Neither was a saint but each generous of spirit and wonderful company”

Lamenting the loss of two greats of the racing press room Paul Haigh and Ray Huxley died within three weeks of each other this year. Same age, 76. Same lament, prematurely – notwithstanding well lived lives and immeasurable contributions to the written word on horseracing. Their funerals were last Thursday, thousands of kilometres apart. From... Read More

Half-sister to Winx added to Chairman’s Sale

Sebastian Hutch, Inglis’ general manager of bloodstock sales and marketing, has labelled the addition of a half-sister to Winx (Street Cry) at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale as ‘a collector’s item’. Courchevel, the Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice) half-sister to Winx, joins dual Group 1 winners Pippie (Written Tycoon) and Danzdanzdance (Mastercraftsman) as the latest high-profile fillies and... Read More