Yulong came away with the highest-priced lot at the most recent Inglis Digital Sale, when going to $365,000 to purchase the stakes-placed Gibraltar Girl (Manhattan Rain), who is foal to Newgate sire Capitalist (Written Tycoon).  Gibraltar Girl, who placed in the Mode Plate (Listed, 1200m) on the track, is a daughter of dual Listed winner... Read More

Sire of first crop Classic winner and Nunthorpe favourite to make belated southern hemisphere appearance Group 1-winning European sprinter and exciting northern hemisphere sire Aclaim (Acclamation) will shuttle to Aquis Farm in Queensland this year, three years after he was initially slated to do so. ANZ Bloodstock News can reveal that Aclaim, the sire of... Read More

  Tasmanian nursery Grenville Stud celebrated a new milestone last weekend when one of its graduates led the way as the sales topper at the 2022 Hong Kong International Sale at Sha Tin. The two-year-old gelding, by record-breaking sire Deep Field (Northern Meteor) out of former Darley mare Bousquet (More Than Ready), entered the makeshift... Read More

Dear Adam, In the wake of last week’s much ado about nothing in South Australia, I am compelled to write to you.  I have, like many Australians, become disillusioned with the two major political parties.  Thus, I should be a candidate to vote Greens but I am not and – like a great many Australians... Read More

Louis Mihalyka believes first season sires are not the breeder safety net that they once were, but the Laurel Oak Bloodstock principal and many of his fellow commercial breeders will be backing the freshman stallions in quality and numbers when the 2022 season gets underway on the first day of spring. Coolmore has dual Group... Read More

What seemed impossible midway through last century, now seems possible. The number eleven, a historical benchmark for premierships by New Zealand-based sires, might be under threat. Eleven is the number achieved by the great Foxbridge (Foxlaw) and is looking more and more likely to be matched, perhaps even bettered, by Waikato Stud’s own Savabeel (Zabeel).... Read More