Bookmaker Merlehan banking on a Debutant boilover with his young Pride Of Dubai colt
Milo Racing syndicate excited about Lindsay Park’s Dubai Oak having first start in stakes race Big-betting corporate bookmaker Tristan Merlehan hopes the latest member of his family’s expanding racehorse portfolio can spring an upset in the Debutant Stakes (Listed, 1000m) at Caulfield and go some way to helping the balance sheet on two fronts. The... Read More
El Patroness (AUS)
El Patroness (AUS) 3 f Shamus Award – Sure You Can by O’Reilly O: Mr D T O’Brien, Balmerino Racing Partnership, Mrs J O’Brien B: Balmerino Racing Partnership Trust, O’Brien Thoroughbreds T: Danny O’Brien W: Super Impose Stakes (Listed, 1800m) Flemington, October 2 El Patroness (Shamus Award) set herself up for a possible Classic... Read More
Griffiths and De Kock buy Australia colt with Cup pedigree
Robbie Griffiths and Mathew de Kock extended Australian purchasing power on the third and final day at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, parting with 240,000 guineas (approx. AU$450,000) for an Australia (Galileo) colt out of a half-sister to Melbourne Cup (Gr 1, 3200m) winner Rekindling (High Chaparral). Agent Johnny McKeever signed for... Read More
Group 1 winner Portland Sky to stand at Widden Stud
Top-class sprinter Portland Sky (Deep Field), the first Group 1 winner by Deep Field (Northern Meteor), has been retired from his racing career and will join the Widden Stud roster for the 2022 season. Portland Sky showed his stakes potential early on in his career, winning his debut maiden at Ballarat on August 25, 2020. ... Read More
It’s Go Go on the Gold Coast
Bowditch adamant all is on track to welcome interstate participants for a big season-opening January yearling sale Magic Millions has given the biggest indication yet that it is full steam ahead towards the Gold Coast in January, moving to allay fears that the vital Australasian season-opening yearling sale in early 2022 could be without key... Read More
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