Frankel fever as Brummitt and O’Brien sign for son of champion
Frankel’s (Galileo) burgeoning appeal Down Under has translated into sales ring demand from southern hemisphere buyers at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, as the champion racehorse and champion European sire elect saw a second son destined for Australia in as many days. Jeremy Brummitt and Danny O’Brien went to 160,000 guineas (approx.... Read More
Jerry Chau graduates in style as he clinches 70th victory
Marking the end of a decorated apprenticeship in emphatic style, Jerry Chau intends to capitalise on status as the second-fastest rider to make the graduation from indentured to senior ranks after Transcendent (Dabirsim) snared yesterday’s Class 3 Gloucester Handicap (1200m) at Happy Valley. Competing in his 639th Hong Kong race, 21-year-old Chau unfurled a clinical... Read More
Fast Knightstown out to put Gumeracha and Summerset Park Stud on the map
Valentia three-year-old given chance in Caulfield Guineas three years after half-brother did the same South Australia hamlet Gumeracha, population 701, is famous for the world’s largest rocking horse, but come Saturday the town could also lay claim to another equine title, the breeding ground of a Caulfield Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) winner. The said horse... Read More
Get In The Spirit
There’s a line from an American author named Jack Kornfield – not coincidentally a Buddhist practitioner – that says to let go and move on means we release “the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit”. Surely there can’t be a more apt setting for that than racing and breeding, where ifs,... Read More
Price and Baker strike for colts on solid opening session at Tattersalls
Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr and Bjorn Baker continued their northern hemisphere spending sprees at yesterday’s opening session of the Tattersall’s Book 1 Yearling Sale in Newmarket, purchasing colts by Frankel (Galileo) and Australia (Galileo). Following on from their US$275,000 (approx. AU$377,000) purchase of a filly by War Front (Danzig) at the Keeneland September... Read More
Heroic Valour hits the mark immediately for Queensland’s Raheen Stud
Doomben win of Kenmore Lodge-bred colt Heroic Son a first for long-time studmaster Basil Nolan Snr Sometimes racecourse victories mean more than others and cannot be measured simply by a race’s status or the prize-money it carried and one result in particular last weekend was an example of that for the tight-knit Nolan family and... Read More