It’s all smiles as the thoroughbred is promoted at Stud Cutting Competition
There were plenty of smiles and laughter at Friday night’s Thoroughbred Stud Cutting Competition in Scone, as some of the racing and breeding industry’s leading Hunter Valley-based farms and personalities switched helmets for cowboy hats and jockey boots for chaps as they pitted their skills against one another in an entirely different equine discipline. Yet... Read More
Three-year-olds lay down spring markers as carnival ramps up
Giga Kick puts in classy performance to win Vain Stakes for Jonathan Munz’s Pinecliff Racing The impressive Giga Kick (3 g Scissor Kick – Rekindled Applause by Royal Applause) laid down a marker as a prominent spring contender when running out a ready winner of the Vain Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m) at Caulfield yesterday for... Read More
Spring clues galore for Glentree in both Melbourne and Sydney
Emerging Victorian farm set for busy day with trio of first-up three-year-olds and an exciting import in action Glentree Farm launches potentially their most rewarding spring yet with key first-up runners in Melbourne and Sydney today – three well credentialed three-year-olds and an exciting import starting his second Australian campaign. The emerging Victorian farm is... Read More
Sirius Suspect
The best laid plans always start with a few beers. Well, maybe not, but inspiration drawn from some stubbies with his boss all of ten years ago enticed Dennis Lewis into the world of racehorse ownership with Darren Dance’s Australian Thoroughbred Bloodstock and from there he’s had the ride of his life. “It was a... Read More
Chain Of Lightning
Rough shod is not a phrase you’d normally want associated with your gallopers, but breeding behemoth Stuart Ramsey hopes those words are the key to exciting times ahead for unbeaten mare Chain Of Lightning (Fighting Sun). The four-year-old homebred made it four wins from four in adapting smoothly to the Flemington straight and Benchmark 84... Read More
Aft Cabin (AUS)
Aft Cabin (AUS) 3 c Astern – Shelters by Lonhro O: Godolphin B: Godolphin T: James Cummings W: Tile Importer Maiden Plate (1400m), Sandown-Hillside, August 10 James Cummings and Godolphin look to have a real Caulfield Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) contender on their hands following Aft Cabin’s (Astern) dominant performance in a Sandown-Hillside maiden on... Read More