Corner Pocket
In snooker, it’s all about precision. And in the making of picket fence builder Corner Pocket, one of two new stakes winners for surging stallion Toronado (High Chaparral) last weekend, Swettenham Stud played all the angles with consummate skill before putting their queue in the rack. The mare Baize (Commands), from which the Lindsey Smith-trained... Read More
Merchant Navy colt tops Book 2 on the final day of record-breaking Perth Sale
Curtain comes down on two-day Magic Millions auction which has seen increases across the board Coolmore’s Merchant Navy (Fastnet Rock) claimed the highest price from Book 2 in another strong session at the Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale yesterday, with an Amelia Park-bred colt by the stallion selling for $160,000. As the sale closed with... Read More
Demand for yearlings continues apace on record-breaking day in Perth
Playing God colt realises $330,000 as local buyers dominate during red-hot Book 1 session of Magic Millions sale A colt by Playing God (Blackfriars) put a late West Australian stamp on Book 1 of the Perth Magic Millions sale as the nation’s rampant yearling boom continued unabated yesterday, snatching top billing as the fifth-last lot... Read More
McEvoy-Mitchell Racing to close historic Adelaide stable
An era in South Australian racing has ended with six-time champion Adelaide trainer Tony McEvoy announcing the closure of his historic Kildalton Park base at Angaston, the former revolutionary Lindsay Park complex established by Colin Hayes. McEvoy, a former head trainer for Lindsay Park after following on from the Hayes dynasty of Colin and sons... Read More
Hopes high at expanding Cranbourne as Group 1 targets loom large
The Cranbourne training ranks have swollen in quantity and quality in the past 12 months, with the arrival of leviathan outfits and household names relocating from Caulfield. Despite the recent influx, long standing Cranbourne horsemen Enver Jusufovic and Julius Sandhu have been the flagbearers for south-east Melbourne’s excellent training facility over the past two weeks.... Read More
Whyte to again test the European-breds’ Classic credentials after Emperor’s Gold display
Douglas Whyte has put his faith in the European breed as a superior product when it comes to races over a mile plus in Hong Kong, but only when given the time and patience to flourish in what is a harsher, more alien racing arena to the open pastures they are accustomed to. That judgement... Read More