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
Aussie agent Boomer bound for Keeneland
Australian agent Craig Rounsefell, spurred on by a US Grade 1 winner this year, will make a long-awaited return to America to take in its bloodstock sales series over the next three months, starting with the Keeneland September yearling extravaganza. The Gold Coast-based Boomer Bloodstock principal, who has an extensive American client base, was like... Read More
Catalogue released for southern hemisphere’s biggest two-year-old sale
NZB auction features 322 lots by 83 different sires including champions Savabeel and Exceed And Excel The catalogue for the 2021 New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale will be released today as the company comes to terms with the fact that Australasia’s biggest two-year-old auction will again be unlikely to have international buyers in... Read More