Laurel Oak hoping Fireburn can hand them Slipper glory
While the global racing and breeding powerhouse, Godolphin took centre stage on Saturday when Daumier (Epaulette) landed the Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m), a Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) dream sprung to life for Laurel Oak Bloodstock when their homebred filly Fireburn (Rebel Dane) landed the Sweet Embrace Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) at... Read More
A $675,000 Written Tycoon colt stands alone on bumper opening day at Inglis Premier
Spread of buyers and depth of market sets new record for Melbourne yearling sale The Written Tycoon (Iglesia) half-brother and final sibling to Group 1-winning sprinter The Quarterback (Street Boss), who sold for a day one high of $675,000 in the last half an hour of a record Inglis Premier Yearling Sale session yesterday, will... Read More
Japan’s stars shine brightly on rich Riyadh raceday
It may have hosted the world’s richest race ever staged, but the shock victory of Emblem Road (4 h Quality Road – Venturini by Berardini) in yesterday’s Saudi Cup (Gr 1, 1800m), worth a cool US$10 million (approx. AUS$13.85m) to the winner, played second fiddle to the exploits of the Japanese raiders who completed a... Read More
Upsides to Katak ‘scare’ Le Grange
South African import Katak (Potala Palace) well and truly put behind the disappointment of his early Singapore showings with an emphatic win in yesterday’s Kranji Stakes A race over 1600 metres. The five-year-old entire was chalking up his second win at Kranji following his local breakthrough in a Class 2 event over 1400 metres five... Read More
Hinged a Worthy winner of Surround Stakes
Among what was widely considered to be one of the best first season sire crops in recent times, Clear Mountain Fairview resident Worthy Cause (Choisir) may not have hit the Golden Slipper-winning headlines of Extreme Choice (Not A Single Doubt), nor that of the four juvenile stakes winners of another first-crop stallion Capitalist (Written Tycoon)... Read More
Marabi new queen of sprint ranks
Marabi (I Am Invincible) stamped herself as the queen of Australia’s sprinting ranks yesterday, landing her first top-level race in the Oakleigh Plate (Gr 1, 1100m) and in doing so put herself firmly in the mix for the Newmarket Handicap (Gr 1, 1200m) at Flemington in two weeks. Only once since the race’s inception in... Read More