Muswellbrook to also benefit from $67 million state budget as Cessnock in line for upgrade A stable complex with the capacity for hundreds of extra horses and a new Polytrack will be built in the thoroughbred breeding heartland of Scone as Racing NSW’s long-slated plan to upgrade training facilities across the state won approval from... Read More

First for Profitable Quick Suzy (2 f ex Snooze by Marju) landed the Queen Mary Stakes (Gr 2, 5f) yesterday to provide first season sire Profitable (Invincible Spirit) with his first stakes winner. Quick Suzy was second in the Fillies Sprint Stakes (Gr 3, 6f) at Naas last month and went one better than that... Read More

Love (4 f Galileo – Pikaboo by Pivotal) was in the air at Royal Ascot yesterday as the Aidan O’Brien-trained filly produced a gutsy front-running performance to land the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes (Gr 1, 1m 2f).  Making her first appearance of the season after an unbeaten three-year-old campaign that featured wins in the 1,000... Read More

Day three at Royal Ascot offers the rare feat of two brothers contesting different races on the same card at the illustrious meeting. Even rarer when you consider that they are out of a mare by champion Australian sire Redoute’s Choice (Danehill) and rarer still that she has already produced a superstar breed-shaping champion in... Read More

Internationally renowned property up for sale for eight-figure sum  Lime Country Thoroughbreds’ move from the NSW Southern Highlands to Blandford in the Hunter Valley has paved the way for the estate of the late Dato’ Tan Chin Nam to place Think Big Stud on the market. The prized horse property, which has been tenanted by... Read More

If you’re into breeding horses, and don’t mind a bit of nominative determinism, you could hardly do better in your pursuit of a fast one than naming your galloper Ayrton.  That’s what Waikato boutique breeder and Formula 1 fan Greg McCarthy did two years ago with the second colt he created by outstanding former British... Read More