New first season sire winners Astern Two of Darley’s first season sires produced new individual winners on Tuesday as Seradess (2 f ex Obsidian Dragon by Hidden Dragon) dead-heated with Cloudy (Frosted) in a thrilling finish to the Roll The Dice Racing 2YO Fillies Maiden Plate (1000m) at Bendigo. The former was a first winner... Read More

Mr Mozart (AUS) 2 c Snitzel – Euro Angel by Rip Van Winkle O: Jamieson Park, Mr D V Russo, Mrs P F Collins, Mr A R McDonald, Mr R L Milne, Mr PJ Duggan B: Jamieson Park (Australia) Ltd, David Russo, Phil Duggan, Russell Collins, Andrew McDonald, Ron Milne T: Michael, Wayne and John... Read More

A rare opportunity to participate in the world’s richest race on turf has arisen after it was announced that Greg Ingham’s GPI Racing will auction off its slot in The Everest (1200m). Inglis will manage the sale process, which will involve interested parties submitting bids during an expressions of interest period. The slot will be... Read More

‘You have got to make sure everyone remains in the industry, not just the few that can survive the humps and the hollows’ The Australian yearling market is like a runaway train, record after record with no end in sight. So what effect will the remarkable surge in demand have on the 2021 stallion service... Read More

You take a Group 1-winning mare, out of a Blue Hen of a mother, and put her with a sire renowned in two hemispheres for leaving top-notch offspring.  Et voilà – you make a Golden Slipper contender, this one known as O’President. Pretty straightforward, really. If breeding is this easy, why isn’t everyone doing it?... Read More

The deficit remains confronting, but Zac Purton breathed life into flickering hopes of a successful jockeys’ championship defence with a stunning quintet at Happy Valley yesterday evening to capitalise on Joao Moreira’s suspension. Posting his first five-timer for the 2020/21 season, Purton cut Moreira’s margin to 25 after triumphing on Wood On Fire (Per Incanto),... Read More