Beginning his first season at stud this year is Little Avondale’s Little Brose (Per Incanto), the 2023 Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) victor. Although Little Brose carries the AUS suffix he was conceived at Sam and Dame Catriona Williams’ Little Avondale Stud. The same is true of Eurocanto (Per Incanto) whose debut in Flemington’s... Read More

The Coolmore Stud Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) has traditionally been the domain of the rich and famous, but David and Emma-Lee Browne will be gatecrashing the party with their $14,000 bargain buy McGaw after the speedy son of I Am Immortal (I Am Invincible) bounced out of his first stakes win last Saturday. Blueblood colts... Read More

Rabbit’s Foot (Golden Horde) topped the Arqana Arc Sale on Saturday evening after running the race of her life in the Prix de Royallieu (Gr 1, 2800m) at Longchamp only hours earlier. In finishing third to Consent (Lope De Vega) in the Group 1 event, Francois Rohaut’s filly had made herself a considerably more valuable... Read More

In an incredible feat of training from Henry Dwyer, the remarkable Asfoora (7 m Flying Artie – Golden Child by I Am Invincible) made further history on Sunday as she became the first Australian-trained horse to win in France when readily landing the Prix de l’Aabaye (Gr 1, 1000m) at Longchamp. Having scored in the... Read More

Newgate Farm boss Henry Field spent Sunday revelling in the glow of one of the stud’s most special days on the racetrack, after twin triumphs suggesting their “freak of nature” stallion is on his way to confirmation as a sire of sires. Sub-fertile sensation Extreme Choice (Not A Single Doubt) brought up his sixth elite... Read More

Manfred Man soared into select company at Sha Tin on Saturday when the veteran horseman snared his 700th win as a trainer to join an illustrious band of contemporaries with Ruby Sailing’s (Starspangledbanner) victory. A former champion apprentice jockey whose most significant success in the saddle came aboard Go-Getter in the 1979 QEII Cup, Man... Read More