New first season sire winners Almanzor (pictured) First season sire Almanzor (Wootton Bassett) got off the mark with his first runner as Faro de San Juan (2 c ex Fixette by Kodiac) landed the Prix du Soleil de Bretagne (1100m) on debut at Chantilly last Monday. The Francis-Henri Graffard-trained colt defeated Perfect Colour (Ultra) by... Read More

Group 1-winning colt Sword Of State (Snitzel), arguably New Zealand’s best two-year-old this season, has had his future as a stallion assured after Cambridge Stud struck a deal to take on the exciting juvenile at the end of his racing career. The Jamie Richards-trained Sword Of State, a last-start winner of the Sistema Diamond Stakes... Read More

Kingstar lands big pinhook result as HTBA May Yearling Sale draws to a close Leading Singapore trainer Michael Clements will take charge of a $145,000 colt by first crop sire Russian Revolution (Snitzel), the highest-priced yearling sold and one of two lots to make six figures at Inglis’ HTBA May Sale. Kiwi bloodstock agent Bevan... Read More

Waikato Stud’s Mark Chittick had many reasons to smile over the weekend, especially after the running of two Group 2s on both sides of the Tasman.  The Travis Stakes (Gr 2, 2000m) at Te Rapa on Saturday saw Pierina (Savabeel) ring up her sire’s 114th stakes winner when the six-year-old bolted clear at the 300... Read More

Allen Tam’s Arriba Arriba (Denman) continued on his upward curve with a dominant win in Friday nights’ Class 3 over 1050 metres (sand), to make it five wins from only six starts in Macau. Ridden for the first time by Eric Cheung, the good-looking son of Denman bounded away from his opposition to score untouched... Read More

The “Scone sale”, held in Sydney last year by necessity but by choice 12 months later, yesterday continued the now predictable surge in yearling prices, as demand for ready to run stock came to the fore at Inglis’ Riverside Stables. The HTBA May Yearling Sale, the Hunter Valley auction rebranded by Inglis which traditionally is... Read More