Inspirational Girl
Inspirational Girl landed a windfall for favourite backers who crunched her from $3.50 to $2.60 in taking the Railway Stakes at Ascot last Saturday, becoming the first Group 1 winner bred by New Zealand’s Jamieson Park stud. The West Australian mare – yet another from breeder Bob Peters’ cerise and white production line – had... Read More
‘South Australian racing well placed for aggressive growth strategy’
Breeder bonus scheme receives $600,000 boost as industry hangs on state budget Investment in infrastructure will be the key to South Australian racing’s resurgence after the sport’s regulatory body made two significant prize-money increases in as many days and waits on further good news in today’s unveiling of the state budget. Thoroughbred Racing South Australia... Read More
Kah leads the pack in race to complete extraordinary achievement
Jockey Jamie Kah’s success is likely to prove the racing story of the current season. That will be especially so if she were to go on to claim the Victorian metropolitan jockeys’ premiership in which she currently has a seven win lead over Damien Oliver and a winning strike rate of 20 per cent, which... Read More
Gangemis’ Magic touch with tried horses on show in Winterbottom
Life left in veterans as trio line up in Perth’s $1 million feature sprint at Ascot Perth-based brothers Chris and Michael Gangemi have made an artform out of raiding eastern-state stables searching for relative diamonds in the rough in order to uncover horses capable of being rejuvenated in the west. The exercise has been rather... Read More
Pagan dips into December Yearling Sale as Sea The Stars steals the show with 300,000gns top lot at Tattersalls
Denis Pagan, who caused an upset in last month’s Victoria Derby (Gr 1, 2500m) when saddling six-race maiden Johnny Get Angry (Tavistock) to victory, was active at Tattersalls on Monday, going to 85,000 guineas (approx. AUD$162,250) to secure a son of Australia (Galileo) from the December Yearling Sale. The colt, who is out of an... Read More
‘Strongest Karaka yearling sale catalogue for some time’
Depth of stallions underpins New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2021 offering A concerted long-term commitment by New Zealand stud masters to improve the depth of the country’s stallion ranks is borne out in next year’s Karaka Yearling Sale with breeders no longer needing to solely rely on the progeny of champion sire Savabeel (Zabeel) to attract international... Read More