Thompson digs deep for his Impending star at record Magic Millions Tasmanian Yearling Sale
Trainer Cameron Thompson yesterday fended off a powerful band of mainland buyers who dominated the top-end of the Magic Millions Tasmanian Yearling Sale to keep an impressive $150,000 son of Darley’s first season sire Impending (Lonhro) in his home state. The highest-priced lot sold at Quercus Park in Carrick, one of six six-figure yearlings in... Read More
‘If you tread water eventually you will drown, so you get bigger or you will go backwards’
Historic Widden Stud takes over Sun Stud’s Victorian operation Antony Thompson says to survive in an increasingly global thoroughbred breeding industry, stud farms need to get bigger to compete, a realisation which led to his decision to take on a Victorian holding with his family’s famed Widden Stud, Australia’s oldest thoroughbred farm. Widden principal Thompson... Read More
Sky’s the limit for outstanding Aegon
New Zealanders made their presence felt across the Tasman on Saturday with the superb winning performance by Probabeel (Savabeel) the Futurity Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) while most impressively, the star of Aegon (Sacred Falls) is rapidly ascending and his Australian debut in the Hobartville Stakes (Gr 2, 1400m), against some of Sydney’s best three-year-olds, had... Read More
Two for Belardo
Belardo Haunui Farm shuttle stallion Belardo (Lope De Vega) sired his second individual southern hemisphere winner on Wednesday when Midnight Rocket (2 c ex Midnight Breaker by Housebuster) made a successful debut at Te Aroha. The Stephen Marsh-trained juvenile showed ability in a number of trials prior to his first racecourse outing and he justified... Read More
Fung off to fast start
Tony Fung got his year off to a flying start by picking up Saturday’s feature, the Good Fortune Handicap (1500m), with six-year-old turf champion Lover Paradise (Canford Cliffs), and The Good Year Handicap (1350m) with his latest sand star Hostwin Aurora (Red Element). On Macau Jockey Club’s first raceday for the Chinese New Year, Fung... Read More
Newgate Farm secures share in Slipper hopeful Stay Inside
Extreme Choice colt snapped up after stud enjoys super Saturday Newgate Farm continued its rapid ascent as a thoroughbred breeding powerhouse with two of its young stallions producing their first Group 1 winners at Caulfield on Saturday and in the wake of the milestone day on the racetrack managing director Henry Field yesterday confirmed that... Read More