Four studs, four stories
Four leading New Zealand studs each had varying stories to tell this week. They experienced the highs, as well as the exasperations associated with racing and breeding. Grabbing headlines is not new for Waikato Stud’s Savabeel (Zabeel). Even when he sires the winner of the first two-year-old race for the season it is old hat.... Read More
15 for Churchill
New first season sire winners Churchill (pictured above) Snaffles (2 c ex Annabelle Ja by Singspiel) gave his sire Churchill (Galileo) his 15th individual winner when he easily took the Irish EBF Auction Series Maiden (7f) at Down Royal on Friday for trainer Joseph O’Brien. Despite ducking left out of the stalls, Snaffles was settled... Read More
Spieth on the board with two-year-old trial winner
Owner Man holds long term Hong Kong aspirations for juvenile he bred by Aquis’ first-season sire New season stallion Spieth (Thorn Park) drew first blood at yesterday’s barrier trials at Aquis Park on the Gold Coast with his two-year-old colt Victory Moments winning the opening heat of the morning impressively. With three of the five... Read More
Willa Mitchell: the 18-year-old who is making the most out of being in lockdown
When racing gets into the blood, the passion ends up running so deep it flows on like an incurable addiction from one family generation to the next. We’ve seen this through the racing dynasties that have formed during the past century – the likes of the Cummings and Hayes families and the Freedmans. On the... Read More
Hayes dominates season-opening with eye-catching treble
David Hayes has identified the Hong Kong Sprint (Gr 1, 1200m) on December 12 as Naboo Attack’s (Warhead) primary target after the hulking import’s impressive triumph in the Class 1 Chief Executive’s Cup Handicap (1200m) at Sha Tin yesterday. Fulfilling predictions that he was primed to have an immediate impact on the 2021/22 term, the... Read More
Trainer to fight disqualification over Berejiklian Facebook rants
A country trainer has vowed to appeal a three-month disqualification imposed by Racing NSW stewards for a social media tirade he posted about the state’s premier Gladys Berejiklian’s handling of the pandemic. Norm Loy, based at Albury on the NSW-Victoria border, was outed for three months at a stewards’ hearing on Friday, leaving him to... Read More