New Hampshire
Trainer: Michael Moroney Race: Chairman’s Stakes (Gr 3, 1000m), Caulfield New Hampshire (I Am Invincible) will be out to prove his Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) credentials when he takes on the Chairman’s Stakes (Gr 3, 1000m) at Caulfield today. The Michael Moroney-trained colt has yet to be seen on the racetrack in either... Read More
Osborne’s Mane journey
Everyone told Neil Osborne he was mad when he bought Mane Lodge for $400,000 around 40 years ago. It was the early-80s – a time of big hair, synthesisers and shoulder pads, and some pretty grotesque interest rates as well. For Osborne to make it he’d have to abide with not just stallions and mares... Read More
Booming market set to flow on at Classic as buyers look for auction’s renowned ‘value’
Big numbers on the ground ahead of Inglis’ opening auction of the yearling sale season at Riverside Inglis is poised to maintain the momentum of a buoyant Australian bloodstock market when the Classic Yearling Sale gets underway tomorrow as a deep buying bench gathers in Sydney for the company’s opening auction of 2022. Speculation was... Read More
Six of the best at Inglis Classic
In no particular order, here is a guide to some of the hot lots on offer at the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale, which begins on Sunday. Lot 483: c. Epiphaneia ex Couronne (by Daiwa Major) On account of Arrowfield Stud One of the most interesting lots at the sale is this well-balanced, mature bay sent... Read More
Call for applications for latest Fast Track intake – a path for the industry’s future leaders
Kitchwin Hills’ Mick Malone believes graduates of the Australian thoroughbred breeding’s Fast Track program have proven so successful that many of the trainees over the past four years will become leaders of the industry. As Thoroughbred Breeders Australia, the organisation behind the traineeship, calls for applications for the 2022 Fast Track program, Malone cited the... Read More
Marquee Stud’s Alati labels Millennium hope Paris Dior as a ‘special’ filly
Sister to classy Peter and Paul Snowden-trained juvenile to be offered at Inglis Classic Yearling Sale Bookmaker and breeder Mark Alati will be keeping Paris Dior (Pierro) on his side of the ledger when the promising two-year-old, a filly bred and raised at his Hunter Valley farm Marquee Stud, contests Saturday’s Inglis Millennium (RL, 1100m).... Read More