‘Our clients have got the appetite for them, so you have got to keep buying them’
Is the influx of internationals detrimental to the Australian yearling market? Victoria Derby Day, slated by many as the country’s most prestigious race day, is upon us and so too is the annual debate about Australia’s apparent inability to breed quality stayers capable of challenging the growing influx of internationals who are taking out our... Read More
Successful Fasig-Tipton sale closes yearling season
A total of 961 yearlings sold for $32,743,700, an average price of $34,073 After early season disruptions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the North American yearling sales market regained its footing and ended on a solid note with the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearlings Sale that concluded October 29 with figures slightly below last year’s record-setting... Read More
“God he made lockdown a lot more interesting!”
Connections react as English King breaks another record As an almost unprecedented offering at public auction, there had been much speculation as to what price English King (Camelot) would fetch when he was offered at Tattersalls on Wednesday. The answer, after a lengthy round of bidding, was 925,000gns (approx. AUD$1.79 million) as agent Armando Duarte... Read More
Palamos (AUS)
2 c Extreme Choice – Unrevealed by Forest Wildcat O: Edmund Wong B: SF Bloodstock LLC T: Jamie Richards S: 2020 New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale V: Ainsley Down Stud P: David Ellis, $85,000 S: 2019 Inglis Great Southern Weanling And Bloodstock Sale V: Newgate Consignment P: Paul Willets Bloodstock Consultancy, $65,000 W: NZB... Read More
Dual Group 1 winner Ole Kirk to stand at Vinery Stud
Royal Ascot on the table for richly bred Written Tycoon colt after Hunter Valley farm wins race for three-year-old Dual Group 1-winning colt Ole Kirk (Written Tycoon) could race at Royal Ascot next year to enhance his European shuttling credentials before retiring to Vinery Stud after the Hunter Valley farm yesterday secured the prized three-year-old... Read More
Moroney relishing opportunity to train record breaker English King
$1.7 million dollar purchase tops Horses In Training Sale Flemington trainer Mike Moroney is understandably enthusiastic about the prospect of training Epsom Derby (Gr 1, 1m 4f) fifth English King (Camelot) – the highest priced colt ever sold at the Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Sale and “by quite a way”, according to Moroney, the... Read More