Probabeel the headline act but Cambridge Stud owners have two exciting three-year-olds engaged in Melbourne tomorrow The way in which Zouzarella (Zoustar) won her debut at Moonee Valley last month and the wide grin across jockey Brett Prebble’s face as he excitedly steered her back to scale, left us in no doubt that she’s a... Read More

Darby Racing were active at the second session of the Tattersalls August Sale yesterday, picking up two colts by the late Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) from the Ballydoyle draft. The Aidan O’Brien-trained three-year-olds Father’s Day (Lot 391) and Iowa (Lot 393) were secured in a matter of minutes by Hubie De Burgh of De Burgh Equine... Read More

This year will be a year like no other for the Melbourne Cup. With the backdrop of a pandemic and the introduction of additional vetting procedures in the face of a series of fatalities in the race, the Road to the Cup is a chequered one for many international aspirants dreaming of winning the Race... Read More

It’s a fine line between pleasure and pain. So, too, between madman and genius.  When Rick Jamieson watched Masked Crusader win the Group 3 The Heath so effortlessly at Caulfield last Saturday, hanging over the pride in another cracking piece of breeding was a large cloud of melancholy.  It was the Gilgai Farm maven who... Read More

At first glance, it makes perfect sense why Waikato Stud would have been attracted to a yearling bred the way Banquo (Written Tycoon), the stud’s latest addition, is bred. When the well is deep, why not go back? Since the announcement that he will join a formidable stallion line up, it has been well publicised... Read More

Ottavio Galletta’s phone was ringing so incessantly in the hours after Profondo (Deep Impact), the $1.9 million colt he bought “on a whim” last year, made the perfect start to his highly touted career that he told trainer Richard Litt to wait to give him the post-race rundown until last night. One of the first... Read More