New first season sire winners Air Force Blue (pictured) Coolmore’s Air Force Blue (War Front) landed a second winner from his one and only southern hemisphere crop as Forceful Matilda (2 f ex Matilda’s Dance by Danehill Dancer) recorded a two-and-a-half-length win at Toowoomba in the two- and three-year-old maiden over 1200 metres. The filly... Read More

Abseiler and Direct set for important comeback Caulfield jump outs Melbourne trainer Lloyd Kennewell hopes to be a major player in a host of upcoming stakes races in Victoria and interstate despite the loss of one of his trump cards in promising colt Marine One (Capitalist) to a rival stable. Today’s Caulfield jump outs on... Read More

If Hollywood were to get hold of the following, they most likely would glorify the highs, emphasise the tragedies then simply script an ending in which everyone lived happily ever after. However, the subject is thoroughbred horse breeding, which is firmly based in reality, something that Hollywood can often struggle with. This is the story... Read More

Macau’s undisputed Derby king Joe Lau has his sights firmly set on a fifth Macau Derby (local Group 1, 1800m) with his rising star Snow Storm (Mossman), who has managed to gain a berth in Sunday’s race by virtue of his latest win in Class 3 company. Snow Storm, who only had his first race... Read More

It was meat pies all round after Good Luck Charm was punched home for trainer Donna Logan in the S$50,000 Top Knight Stakes Class 4 Division 1 race over 1400m. Glasses of bubbly are the usual celebratory drinks to go around the Kiwi’s table of friends upstairs when one of her wards scores, albeit not... Read More

In the depths of winter, training, riding and managing any type of horse is challenging and expensive. In the thoroughbred world, the off season is a prime time for decisions to be made to either race on or breed. Some put the cue in the rack and truck loads of horses are offered on the... Read More