Waller and Nature Strip headline NSWROA’s Racing’s Night of Champions
The winners of the New South Wales Racehorse Owners Association’s Racing’s Night of Champions Awards were announced yesterday at the Royal Randwick Ballroom for the first time since Covid restrictions were lifted. While international performances were not taken into consideration for the points tallying, the list of finalists included recent Royal Ascot performers Home Affairs... Read More
Churchill embarks on the ‘spring that never was’ for Galileo
Chris Waller-trained Conqueror can prove a pivotal winner for Coolmore stallion in tomorrow’s Up And Coming Stakes On tomorrow’s card at Rosehill, Coolmore shuttler Churchill (Galileo) faces a moment of reckoning as he bids to achieve what his revered sire Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) failed from his first crop of southern hemisphere-bred progeny – land a... Read More
Yulong flex muscles again on Inglis Digital
Queensland Oaks (Gr 1, 2400m)-winning mare Winning Ways (Declaration Of War) became the third-most expensive horse to sell online in Australia this year after she was purchased for $700,000 by the Lucky Vega Syndicate as the Inglis Digital August (Late) Sale came to a close yesterday. Offered by Ridgmont Farm (as agent), the seven-year-old is... Read More
Showmanship
Showcasing, the son of Oasis Dream who won York’s Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes, shuttled for seven seasons to Karaka’s Haunui Farm, where he stood for between $7,500 and $12,000. Right now, he commands the fifth-highest advertised service fee in Great Britain, standing at Whitsbury Manor Stud in Hampshire for £45,000, or around $85,000 in today’s... Read More
Freedmans’ colt talent set to be unleashed
Father-and-son training partnership looking to James Harron quintet as well as Daumier and Doull to provide spring ammunition No trainer would begrudge having in their care $5.85 million worth of six potently-bred colts, but as the spring riches ramp into gear, over the next ten weeks potential stallion careers will either be made or dissipated,... Read More
Aladdin and Glory catching eyes of Hong Kong buyers
Trying to determine the next big thing in Hong Kong bloodstock can be a crucial asset as owners search the world over for their next import into the city. While Hong Kong owners may generally be pretty unenlightened about breeding, they know a successful trend when they see one and – for instance – a... Read More