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Tara Madgwick - Friday, 22 September 2017
The new fibre sand
track at Seymour received a glowing endorsement, with its first major public
test, the Victorian breeze-ups for next month's Magic Millions Gold Coast
2YOs in Training Sale, declared a great success.
Tara Madgwick - Friday, 22 September 2017
The
well-known colours of the Esplin family were carried to victory in impressive
fashion at Scone on Friday by a half-sister to their Group I winning mare Plucky
Belle by Aquis Farm's Dream Ahead (USA).
Tara Madgwick - Friday, 22 September 2017
Successful Australian breeder-owners Donna and
Rob Love made a splash at Taupo on Friday when their filly Serenity opened her
three-year-old season in fine fashion.
Tara Madgwick - Friday, 22 September 2017
The
Spring Carnival is in full swing so we have stakes racing every weekend and for
breeders and stallion owners it’s all about which sires are doing well and
getting the stakes winners when it counts - to get them you need runners, so
let’s take a look into the crystal ball to see which stallions can fire up this
weekend.
Racenet - Friday, 22 September 2017
The two year-old’s really kicked off in the past
week with trials all around the country and hundreds of youngsters seen out for
the first time so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale
information.
Tara Madgwick - Friday, 22 September 2017
With
little more than 18 months until the running of the inaugural $1 million VOBIS
Sires two year-old race, a record number of stallions have been nominated to
the scheme.
Tara Madgwick - Thursday, 21 September 2017
As
a three-quarter sister-in-blood to champion mare More Joyous, expectation
probably started high with this four year-old mare and while she will never
scale the heights of her famous relation, she is now at least a winner.
Tara Madgwick - Thursday, 21 September 2017
Birthday-boy All Too Hard celebrated more happy returns when
Darhad became his 8th individual winner this month at Hawkesbury on Thursday.
Tara Madgwick - Thursday, 21 September 2017
The
global Darley breeding operation has seen a number of high class Australian race
mares given their chance at stud in the Northern Hemisphere and one of those
mares is Divorces, who produced her first winner for Godolphin in the UK on
Wednesday.
Mark Smith - Thursday, 21 September 2017
Making his third start on September 19th, 2009, High Chaparral colt So You Think earned his first stakes win in the Group III Gloaming Stakes at Rosehill, two starts later he won the Group I WS Cox Plate and he was on his way to fame and fortune.
Tara Madgwick - Thursday, 21 September 2017
A daughter of emerging Fastnet Rock sire Highly Recommended, Greenpark Gem will be a force to be reckoned
with next year, but she might still rise to a more immediate Group One
challenge.
Tara Madgwick - Thursday, 21 September 2017
The
rise of underdog sire Kodiac and his quest to set a new world record for two
year old winners is something that has captured the attention of our audience, with
a new milestone passed overnight in the UK where he sired his 44thtwo year-old winner of the year.
Tara Madgwick - Thursday, 21 September 2017
The
stalwart on the roster at Darley Victoria, Reset is the sire of quality Group I
placed performer Disposition who gave popular WA owner breeders Bob and Sandra
Peters another stakes success on Wednesday when taking out the Listed Hannans
Handicap at Kalgoorlie.
Tara Madgwick - Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Sepoy
sired his first Australian stakes-winner last Saturday when Alizee powered home
to win the Group II ATC Tea Rose Stakes and may not have to wait long for his
second with promising Regimen staking her claim for future Black Type success
with a stylish win at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.
Tara Madgwick - Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Torryburn
Stud have been enjoying a great run of success with their homebred sprinter
Deploy and were back in the winner's circle at Warwick Farm on Wednesday with talented
Your Song filly Memento.
Tara Madgwick - Wednesday, 20 September 2017
The Ciaron Maher-trained Naantali has defied a tough run to score in maiden
company at Cranbourne on Wednesday and looks destined for better things.
Tara Madgwick - Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Vinery
Stud's champion sire More Than Ready (USA) is seldom without a good horse and
posted an impressive debut winner at Warwick Farm on Wednesday when Star of Africasurged clear to win in the China Horse Club colours.
Tara Madgwick - Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Xbox cut the prettiest of pictures on Wednesday
for equine photographer Trish Dunell.
Tara Madgwick - Wednesday, 20 September 2017
A
fast stayer with an exceptional pedigree by an outstanding shuttle sire in
Shamardal, Crackerjack King (IRE) is all class and stands at Wyndholm Park Stud
in Victoria this spring.
Tara Madgwick - Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Another
Frankel is ready to step out for the first time at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.
Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 19 September 2017
There's never been a better time for
Australasian breeders to experience the new Horseco Exchange with an exciting
announcement on Tuesday.
Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 19 September 2017
The
second highest priced offering at the NZB Ready to Run Sale last year was a
clear pick as the 'One to Watch' on Tuesday after bolting in at Wangaratta.
Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 19 September 2017
A
brilliant early two year-old that won the 2014 Magic Millions 2YO Classic,
Unencumbered fired up with his first two year-old trial winner with a fast
finishing win at Gosford on Tuesday for well named colt Swoop.
Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 19 September 2017
Sir
Patrick Hogan is urging racing participants to vote New Zealand First in
reaction to the party's announcement that it is backing the establishment of an
all-weather track.
Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 19 September 2017
The
field and barrier draw are out for the first Group I event of the season for
three year-olds, the $1million ATC Golden Rose, so let's take a look at who
bought and sold these 14 runners that do not include a single horse for
Godolphin, who have won four of the last eight runnings of this race.
Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 19 September 2017
Royal
Symphony's freakish win in the Listed Pin & Win Plate at Flemington on
Saturday, has again shone the spotlight on Inglis online trading.
Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 19 September 2017
Outside
of the official two year-old trials at Canterbury on Monday morning there were
also two heats for the babies at Cranbourne in Victoria, both won by graduates
of the 2017 Magic Millions Yearling Sale.
Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 19 September 2017
Champion
sire Fastnet Rock has come out firing with his three year-olds this season
posting four stakes-winners since August 1, which is the most of any stallion
and has a blue-blooded filly making her debut on Tuesday that could easily add
to the tally.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 18 September 2017
Sir Owen Glenn's Go
Bloodstock enjoyed a winning weekend with the success of Criterion's
progressive half-brother Comin' Through and the arrival of another stunning
foal by Criterion himself.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 18 September 2017
Coming
off a weekend when he sired a new stakes-winner in Fox Swift and stakes
performers Foxplay and Albumin, Foxwedge kept the momentum going with an impressive
debut winner at Goulburn on Monday.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 18 September 2017
Humidor's stunning victory in the Group I Makybe
Diva Stakes (1600m) provided his New Zealand connections with a result to
savour.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 18 September 2017
It's been a progressive weekend in both hemispheres for Animal Kingdom, thanks to his third stakes-winner, an impressive debut winner, a repeat winner and a Grade II placegetter.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 18 September 2017
I'm
not at Canterbury, but watching these on Sky Thoroughbred Central, so let's
take a look at the bloodstock and breeding angles behind these first season two
year-old trial winners at Canterbury on Monday morning.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 18 September 2017
Medaglia
D'Oro (USA) already has a very good three year-old colt stepping out for him in
Astoria, who won the Group III Spring Stakes last Friday at Newcastle and at
Morphettville on Saturday we saw a filly that looms as the next 'Guru' to taste
Black Type success.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 18 September 2017
Class
miler Twickenham, a seven year-old Australian bred son of Artie Schiller (USA),
posted his second successive win in the $200,000 Committee's Prize Sng G3 at
Kranji on Sunday.
Tara Madgwick - Sunday, 17 September 2017
Sonntag
delivered Henry Dwyer with his first Group I winner when taking out the
Queensland Derby in 2014 and his three year-old half-sister had the trainer back
in the winner’s circle at Geelong on Sunday.
Tara Madgwick - Sunday, 17 September 2017
Aquis
Farm's Artie Schiller (USA) added a new stakes-winner to his tally in the US on
Saturday with a stylish win in the $80,000 Shakopee Juvenile Stakes at
Canterbury Downs for unbeaten filly Amy's Challenge.
Mark Smith - Sunday, 17 September 2017
The Tetsuya Kimura-trained Primo Scene, a daughter of Fastnet Rock's 4-time Group I winning daughter Mosheen, was sent
off
favourite in her career debut in a Newcomer race over 1600 metres for 2-year-old fillies at Nakayama on Sunday but ran into one who may be very smart.
Tara Madgwick - Sunday, 17 September 2017
In
great news to supporters of Group I winning stallion Charge Forward, the son
of Red Ransom (USA) has got his first two mares in foal since moving from Arrowfield
Stud to Murrulla Stud under the guidance of Tim and Celie Nolan.
Mark Smith - Sunday, 17 September 2017
There's little doubt two of the most noteworthy performances on a champagne day of racing at Flemington and Randwick on Saturday came from the imported stayers Almandin (GER) and Libran (IRE).
Tara Madgwick - Sunday, 17 September 2017
Peter
O'Brien of Segenhoe Thoroughbreds has Tweeted the happy news that Vegas
Showgirl, the dam of superstar Winx, safely delivered a filly by Exceed and Excel
last night.
Mark Smith - Saturday, 16 September 2017
It must have been heartbreaking for the Moodie family with the loss of their much-loved mare Razor Blade but the homebred daughter of Blazing Sword is still the gift that keeps on giving with her granddaughter Sword Of Light claiming Saturday's Group II Let's Elope Stakes (1400m) at Randwick.
Mark Smith - Saturday, 16 September 2017
Former champion Sepoy has five stakes winners to his credit in Europe but was still waiting for his first on Australian soil when Godolphin's giant filly Alizee took her place in Saturday's $200,000 Group II Tea Rose Stakes (1400m) at Randwick.
Tara Madgwick - Saturday, 16 September 2017
The
Group I ATC George Main Stakes won by Winx was not the only Group I event run
in Australia on Saturday with the VRC Makybe Diva Stakes at Flemington throwing
up a hugely impressive winner that was not the favourite Hartnell.
Mark Smith - Saturday, 16 September 2017
Redzel continued his march to the top of the sprinters ranks with another thoroughly professional performance, setting a new track record in Saturday's Group II The Shorts (1100m) at Randwick.
Mark Smith - Saturday, 16 September 2017
Not for the first
time there were more than a few worrying moments but in the
end it was again a matter of who can doubt her as Winx ran her winning sequence to 20 in Saturday's $500,000 Group 1 Colgate Optic White George Main Stakes (1600m) at Randwick.
Tara Madgwick - Saturday, 16 September 2017
A
brilliant winner of the Group I MRC Blue Diamond Stakes at two, powerhouse
Fastnet Rock filly Catchy is no stranger to beating up on the colts and she did
it again at Flemington on Saturday when surging clear to win the Group II VRC
Danehill Stakes.
Mark Smith - Saturday, 16 September 2017
Making his first start of the season, Redkirk Warrior (GB) blew away his opposition with a display of sustained speed in Saturday's $200,000 Group II Bobbie Lewis Quality (1200m).
Tara Madgwick - Saturday, 16 September 2017
Now
heading straight into the Group I ATC Epsom Handicap in two weeks time is royally
bred Fastnet Rock stallion Comin' Through, a half-brother to $7million earner
Criterion.
Tara Madgwick - Saturday, 16 September 2017
Exceptional five-year-old Dolcetto took his
career to another level at Awapuni where he comfortably put away a talented
field of black type hopefuls.
Tara Madgwick - Saturday, 16 September 2017
Prom Queen capped a dream home meeting on
Saturday for her trainers when the dashing filly once again proved too slick
for her rivals.
Mark Smith - Saturday, 16 September 2017
With winners at Epsom, Doncaster, Turffontein and Evreux in the past week, Dubawi's son Poet's Voice has been having a fine run of late particularly when adding in Poet's Word's excellent second in the Group I Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown and Perfect Rhyme's brave performance when second to Zanbagh in Friday's Group III Tibbies Stakes at Newcastle.
Tara Madgwick - Saturday, 16 September 2017
Sadly
no longer with us, High Chaparral (IRE) is well known for his classic horses
and stayers, but he can get a speedier steed and one of those is
Theanswermyfriend, who won the Listed VRC Sofitel Stakes at Flemington on
Saturday.
Tara Madgwick - Saturday, 16 September 2017
Aquis
Farm's Domesday may very well have the best three year-old colt in the country
with unbeaten colt Royal Symphony scoring a remarkable victory in the Listed
VRC Pin & Win Plate at Flemington on Saturday.
Mark Smith - Saturday, 16 September 2017
Progressive Foxwedge filly Fox Swift had her first taste of stakes company in Saturday's $120,000 Listed Cap D'Antibes Stakes (1100m) and passed the test in style.
Mark Smith - Friday, 15 September 2017
It seems a lifetime ago when Zanbagh came off a Ballarat maiden win to finish second to Kirramosa in the Group 1 Victorian Oaks.
Tara Madgwick - Friday, 15 September 2017
Debut
winners from the powerful Darren Weir stable at this time of year by High
Chaparral (IRE) are always worth a much closer look.
Mark Smith - Friday, 15 September 2017
The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Broadside kept up a relentless down the long Broadmeadow straight to earn a career highlight victory in Friday's $175,000 Group III Newcastle Gold Cup (2300m).
Mark Smith - Friday, 15 September 2017
Unplaced in his past five starts, locally trained gelding Got Under pulled off a $26
shock in Friday’s $150,000 Group 111 Cameron Handicap at Newcastle and credit his trainer Jay Hopkins with the biggest win of his career with a horse he purchased for just $1,250.
Mark Smith - Friday, 15 September 2017
Godolphin's Medaglia
d'Oro (USA) colt Astoria displayed a superior turn of foot to defeat the favoured Frankel colt Merovee in Friday's $150,000 Group III NJC 3YO Spring Stakes (1600m) at Newcastle.
Tara Madgwick - Friday, 15 September 2017
Two
Aquis Farm sires combined to produce a promising debut winner at Newcastle on
Friday for Team Hawkes.
Tara Madgwick - Friday, 15 September 2017
Inglis graduates will be represented in 10 of the 12 season-opening two-year-old barrier trials at Canterbury on Monday.
Tara Madgwick - Friday, 15 September 2017
The bullish market at
Keeneland's September Yearling Sale continued to generate strong trade among a
global contingent of buyers on Thursday, producing healthy results and the sale
of two fillies for $1 million each.
Tara Madgwick - Friday, 15 September 2017
Record-breaking sprinter Exosphere and multiple G1 winner Kermadec joined
the Darley stallion roster at Kelvinside in the Hunter Valley in 2016.
Tara Madgwick - Friday, 15 September 2017
The
official two year-old trials will be held at Canterbury on Monday featuring 12
heats over 900 metres with Newgate Farm's first season sire Sizzling represented
by an impressive five runners with only Exceed and Excel, I Am Invincible and
Snitzel listed as having more runners.
Tara Madgwick - Thursday, 14 September 2017
There
were four promising three year-old winners at Bendigo on Thursday and all have
been nominated for either the Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas or Thousand
Guineas.
Tara Madgwick - Thursday, 14 September 2017
It's often a hard slog
to make a shuttle sire work in this country and for many, a season or two is
all we see of them, and two that have fallen into that category are Camelot (GB)
and Declaration of War (USA), who have both made a promising start in the
Northern Hemisphere this year where their oldest progeny are two year-olds.
Tara Madgwick - Thursday, 14 September 2017
Waikato
Stud have offered heady support to the current 43-Lot gavelhouse New
Zealand auction with five yearling and eight broodmare entries.
Mark Smith - Thursday, 14 September 2017
The Snitzel dominance looks set to continue at Flemington on Saturday.
Tara Madgwick - Thursday, 14 September 2017
Winning
families produce winning families, and that is exactly what Counterattack provides through his
prolific dam Kisma, a Snippets mare from a Vain mare.
Tara Madgwick - Thursday, 14 September 2017
The
Spring Carnival is in full swing so we have stakes racing every weekend as well
as Newcastle on Friday and for breeders and stallion owners it’s all about
which sires are doing well and getting the stakes winners when it counts - to
get them you need runners, so let’s take a look into the Breednet crystal ball to see
which stallions can fire up this weekend.
Tara Madgwick - Thursday, 14 September 2017
Brisk commerce was the
hallmark of business on the third day of Keeneland's September Yearling Sale,
where spirited bidding among the industry's major buyers drove prices upward,
led by the $1,1 million paid by Coolmore's MV Magnier for a colt from the
final crop of the globally successful sire Scat Daddy.
Tara Madgwick - Thursday, 14 September 2017
Group
One winner Ugo Foscolo has returned to New Zealand for a period of
rehabilitation.
Tara Madgwick - Thursday, 14 September 2017
Highview Stud's young High Chaparral sire Wrote (IRE) has struck a
black type blow in the United States.
Tara Madgwick - Thursday, 14 September 2017
If a dominant display in Wednesday's $60,000 Listed HS Dyke Wanganui Guineas (1340m) is anything to go by, the $30,000 that trainer Andrew Campbell paid to buy Waldorf (NZ) (Highly Recommended) at the 2016 Select Sale has secured him one of New Zealand's brightest three-year-old talents.
Tara Madgwick - Thursday, 14 September 2017
Leading Queensland based
stallions BEL ESPRIT and LOVE CONQUERS ALL have each recorded metropolitan
doubles on Wednesday.
Tara Madgwick - Wednesday, 13 September 2017
Exciting
Pierro colt Levendi turned heads with his resounding debut win at Ballarat in
June and reappeared at Mornington on Wednesday to post another dominant win.
Mark Smith - Wednesday, 13 September 2017
The Written Tycoon gelding Balf's Choice looked anything but a future stakes winner when he travelled far and wide to break his maiden at Mildura at his ninth start.
Tara Madgwick - Wednesday, 13 September 2017
While
the fillies maiden at Canterbury produced the anticipated result with a debut
win for hot favourite Woman, the colts and geldings equivalent produced an
exciting winner from left field.
Tara Madgwick - Wednesday, 13 September 2017
Andrew Campbell has no doubt that his gifted
three-year-old Waldorf can excel over more ground and, to that end, he's
setting his sights on completing a notable 1600m family double with his gifted
colt.
Tara Madgwick - Wednesday, 13 September 2017
Sir Nate upset the hot-pot Beastmode in the first juvenile contest of the
season at Wanganui on Wednesday.
Tara Madgwick - Wednesday, 13 September 2017
Lisa Latta completed a smart piece of business
when she parted with $26,000 at Karaka last year to secure a daughter of young Redoute's Choice stallion Burgundy.
Tara Madgwick - Wednesday, 13 September 2017
When
John Singleton's champion mare More Joyous retired from racing in 2013, he
hatched an ambitious plan to send her to the UK for a covering with the world's
best racehorse Frankel, and that daring move paid dividends on Wednesday at
Canterbury when the resulting foal Woman became a winner!.
Tara Madgwick - Wednesday, 13 September 2017
The
decision to stand a Melbourne Cup winner is not one taken lightly, but a warm initial
response from breeders, followed by encouraging yearling sale results and now
winners on the track have made Swettenham stud's gamble on Americain (USA) look
like a good one.
Tara Madgwick - Wednesday, 13 September 2017
What a timely victory it was by Stone Warrior at Sandown last Wednesday with
Carin Park just days before announcing the arrival of the promising gelding's
sire Shamoline Warrior.
Tara Madgwick - Wednesday, 13 September 2017
Kerri Radcliffe
Bloodstock paid $950,000 for a colt from the final crop of top sire Scat Daddy
to headline a day of robust trade during Tuesday's second session of the
Keeneland September Yearling Sale.
Tara Madgwick - Wednesday, 13 September 2017
The
global nature of the Australian bloodstock industry was highlighted yesterday
when the top priced offering during the first session of Keeneland September
had a pedigree that would look familiar to many Australian breeders.
Tara Madgwick - Wednesday, 13 September 2017
A week that ranks as his best in Australia has capped
an outstanding few months worldwide for Darley's Golden Slipper-winning
stallion Sepoy.
Tara Madgwick - Wednesday, 13 September 2017
The
Daily Debutants list for Wednesday features two exceptionally bred fillies, one
that did make $1million at the sales and one that would have if she had been
offered.
Tara Madgwick - Wednesday, 13 September 2017
Last season's superstar three old filly Global Glamour is on the way back and tuned up at Randwick on Tuesday morning with a hard held trial win.
Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 12 September 2017
Fastnet Rock's top
class son Bull Point retired to Kingstar Farm last year covering 88 mares and
his first foals are the source of much delight.
Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 12 September 2017
Triple Crown Syndications and James Harron Bloodstock have teamed up to target the inaugural running of The Everest with Group 1 winning sprinter Redzel.
Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 12 September 2017
Two well-bred colts by champion sires opened their account at Pakenham on
Tuesday and both have been nominated for the Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas.
Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 12 September 2017
Group III SAJC Sires Produce winner SILENT
SURROUND made headlines on Saturday with her first foal SILENT COMMAND taking
out the Listed Morphettville Guineas in South Australia.
Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 12 September 2017
Waldorf is presented with a gilt-edged
opportunity to add to his black type record on Wednesday.
Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 12 September 2017
An international Group One winner is on his way
to the Auret family's thoroughbred operation on the outskirts of Wanganui.
Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 12 September 2017
World
class multiple European stakes winner, Illustrious Blue (GB), will be standing
at Sonia O'Gorman's Glen Eden farm near Kilmore for the 2017 breeding season.
Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 12 September 2017
Keeneland's reformatted
Week 1 of the September Yearling Sale produced eight million-dollar-plus horses
and fueled significant increases in trade during Monday's opening premier Book
1.
Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 12 September 2017
The direction of Summer Passage's spring campaign will become clearer after
Saturday's Group II Danehill Stakes at Flemington.
Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 12 September 2017
If
you missed the Darley stallion parades at Kelvinside and Northwood Park this
year, then now is the time to catch up and see the stallions you really want to
see showcased in a user friendly way in an outstanding stallion parade video.
Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 12 September 2017
Thoroughbred Breeders Victoria (TBV) is thrilled to announce that the
Avenel Equine Hospital has come on board as its newest major sponsor.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 11 September 2017
The
Muswellbrook meeting on Sunday produced the first winner for new Randwick
trainer Edward O'Rourke, who took over the stables of Michael Freedman.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 11 September 2017
Newhaven Park has announced the appointment of Katherine Sheridan to the management team.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 11 September 2017
Rheinwood
Pastoral Company is very pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Nevin as Stud Manager.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 11 September 2017
Champion
sire Fastnet Rock is having a very strong start to the season with his three
year-olds and produced another impressive blueblood winner at Wodonga on
Monday.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 11 September 2017
Widden
Stud's Your Song and Vinery Stud's All Too Hard have been trading blows since
August 1 and after posting a smart winner at Wodonga on Monday, Your Song has
drawn level with his arch rival, the pair now on eight winners apiece.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 11 September 2017
Footage from last week's Canterbury and Cranbourne breeze ups ahead of the 2017 Inglis Ready2Race Sale are available online.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 11 September 2017
A
new season delivers a new crop of stallion prospects as last season's two
year-olds step out at three and either soar like eagles or sink like the
proverbial.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 11 September 2017
Blue
Sky Bloodstock launch premium Racing & Breeding stock consignment operation
– Blue Sky Premium Consignment.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 11 September 2017
There is a definite
taste of spring in the air at Chris & Kathie Bakker's Lauriston Park with
the second crop of resident stallion Rock Hero starting to arrive.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 11 September 2017
A brilliant three-year-old season by Karaka graduate Bonneval (NZ) (Makfi) was honoured with four awards at Sunday evening's New Zealand Thoroughbred Horse of the Year Awards, including the coveted Horse of the Year title.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 11 September 2017
Exciting galloper Countofmontecristo (NZ) (Echoes Of Heaven) scored the sixth win in his seven-start career in Sunday's Jumbo Jet Trophy (1400m) at Kranji, leading home a trifecta of Karaka graduates in the S$200,000 race.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 11 September 2017
After
an outstanding Autumn campaign which resulted in three consecutive city wins,
trainer Brad Graham now has eyes set on an ambitious Spring campaign with the
promising Western Australian galloper Tonkatuff.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 11 September 2017
It was the Bonneval show in Auckland on Sunday night.
Tara Madgwick - Sunday, 10 September 2017
Thoroughbred
Breeders Queensland Association is proud to announce the 2017 Queensland
Breeding Champions.
Mark Smith - Sunday, 10 September 2017
A sister to Lloyd Williams' Group I Ranvet Stakes winner The United States, Hydrangea has played second fiddle to Ballydoyle stablemate Winter for most of the year, however, she turned the tables in the Group I Coolmore Fastnet Rock Matron Stakes at Leopardstown.
Tara Madgwick - Sunday, 10 September 2017
Last
Friday we ran a story on a new Breednet feature highlighting weekend stakes
runners for each sire and how prophetic that proved with the top three
stallions by number of runners hitting home runs from their opportunity.
Tara Madgwick - Sunday, 10 September 2017
Lope
de Vega (Ire) is the sire of one of the best horses in the country outside of
Winx in Vega Magic, so when he gets a six length winner that has the
connections talking ‘Spring Champion’ we want to know more.
Tara Madgwick - Sunday, 10 September 2017
Toby
Edmonds had to settle for third place in the Group II MVRC McEwen Stakes at
Moonee Valley on Saturday with his flying I Am Invincible filly Houtzen, but
would have gained some consolation with the impressive win of his I Am
Invincible gelding Whypeeo at Doomben.
Mark Smith - Sunday, 10 September 2017
The Group II Stutt Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley on September 29 is on the agenda for the Commands colt Silent Command following his surprise victory in Saturday's $100,000 Listed Goldin Farm Morphettville Guineas (1600m).
Mark Smith - Saturday, 9 September 2017
On the short list for New Zealand Horse Of The Year, the Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained mare Bonneval began the new season on the same note she finished the last.
Mark Smith - Saturday, 9 September 2017
Australian Bloodstock's Japanese import Brave Smash (JPN) broke
a near two-year drought in Saturday's Listed Bendigo Bank Stakes (1200m) at Moonee
Valley however his trainer Darren Weir sounded somewhat downcast.
Mark Smith - Saturday, 9 September 2017
The Snitzel juggernaut rolls on with strapping colt Menari ensuring his
favouritism for the $1 million Golden Rose with a bloodless win in Saturday's $200,000 Group II The Run To The Rose at Rosehill Gardens.
Mark Smith - Saturday, 9 September 2017
The fact that royally-bred Redoute's Choice mare Ravi is still in training rather than being in the broodmare paddocks is a good indication that connections felt that just one Listed
stakes win on her CV
was not a true indication of her class.
Tara Madgwick - Saturday, 9 September 2017
Australia's
best bred filly Shoals kept her unbeaten record intact when resuming from a
spell to win the Listed MVRC Atlantic Jewel Stakes at Moonee Valley on
Saturday.
Mark Smith - Saturday, 9 September 2017
China Horse Club's striking Snitzel colt Russian Revolution stamped himself a star of the future when downing Golden Rose winner Astern and Golden Slipper winner Capitalist in the Group II Roman Consul Stakes at Randwick back in October last year and while his old rivals are currently covering their first book of mares, Russian Revolution continues to cover himself in glory on the
racetrack.
Tara Madgwick - Saturday, 9 September 2017
Fastnet
Rock sprinter Deploy is soaring to new heights this spring breaking the course
record for 1200 metres at Randwick when resuming from a spell last month and
then breaking the 1300 metre record at Rosehill on Saturday to win the Group II
ATC Theo Marks Stakes.
Tara Madgwick - Saturday, 9 September 2017
The
Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott unleashed a serious contender for the upcoming
$1million Group I ATC Golden Rose when progressive Sebring colt Gold Standard
scored a bold victory in the Group II ATC Stan Fox Stakes at Rosehill on
Saturday.
Tara Madgwick - Saturday, 9 September 2017
The
Northern Hemisphere racing season in Europe is fascinating for all sorts of
reasons, but one of them is the rise of Kodiac and his quest for a record
number of two year-old winners.
Tara Madgwick - Friday, 8 September 2017
The
fast start to the season for Vinery Stud's young gun All Too Hard gained further
momentum on Friday with a winning double of impressive maiden winners in Lakota
and Waimea Bay.
Tara Madgwick - Friday, 8 September 2017
Ampulla Lodge's I Am Invincible x Lustful colt (Lot 139) clocked 10,07secs for his 200m gallop at Canterbury today, making it the fastest breeze up time in the history of the Inglis Ready2Race sale.
Racenet - Friday, 8 September 2017
The first two-year-old trials of the new season
were held this week and the winners list saw the first of the Zoustars and a
$900,000 yearling, so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale
details.
Tara Madgwick - Friday, 8 September 2017
Progressive Victorian farm Rosemont has pulled off another
employment coup with the signing of Woodside stud manager Gerrard Jones to the
team.
Tara Madgwick - Friday, 8 September 2017
Champion
sire, Bel Esprit and 'proven source' Statue of Liberty have gotten off to
flying starts in 2017/18 with a host of winners between them.
Tara Madgwick - Friday, 8 September 2017
AMONG the most brilliant gallopers in the late 1960s
and early seventies were offspring of two imported sires who were juvenile
stars in Europe, Romantic (GB) (by Princely Gift) and Without Fear (Fr)
(Baldric 11) who helped establish Colin Hayes's Lindsay Park Stud at Angaston
in South Australia as one of Australia's best sources of excellence.
Tara Madgwick - Friday, 8 September 2017
Group One performer Aloisia
will be set for a potentially lucrative spring campaign after impressing OTI
Racing Director Terry Henderson in her trial at Sandown on Thursday.
Tara Madgwick - Friday, 8 September 2017
The catalogue for New Zealand Bloodstock's Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds is now online.
Tara Madgwick - Friday, 8 September 2017
The
Spring Carnival is in full swing so we have stakes racing every weekend and for
breeders and stallion owners it's all about which sires are doing well and
getting the stakes winners when it counts - to get them you need runners, so let's
take a look at a new innovation on Breednet showing weekend stakes runners for
each sire.
Tara Madgwick - Thursday, 7 September 2017
He’s
the latest winner from the famed South Australian ‘Discreet’ family, but does
not have the well -known moniker as part of his name.
Mark Smith - Thursday, 7 September 2017
Allen Paulson came to the notice of Australians when he purchased our
globetrotting star Strawberry Road to stand at his Brookside Stud in Kentucky.
Tara Madgwick - Thursday, 7 September 2017
Vinery
Stud's All Too Hard has opened up an early lead on the Australian Second Season
Sires list posting his fifth winner of the season a Seymour on Thursday with a stylish
victory for three year-old filly All Come True.
Tara Madgwick - Thursday, 7 September 2017
Changes are afoot at the New Zealand
Thoroughbred Breeders' Association.
Tara Madgwick - Thursday, 7 September 2017
Blanco Belle will face an early test in black
type company on Saturday and her performance at Wanganui could fuel a
longer-term dream of an Australian classic.
Tara Madgwick - Thursday, 7 September 2017
One
of a handful of Australian bred stallions to achieve global success in both hemispheres,
Choisir has sired 84 stakes-winners and left the winners of over $100million
worldwide with his sons now standing at some of the best farms in the country.
Tara Madgwick - Thursday, 7 September 2017
WELL
known gelding Restless (Thunder Gulch – Let's Hurry) – bred by the late Major
James Mitchell from his private broodmare band at Yarraman Park and sold as a
$150,000 Easter yearling, has retired on a high note after an astonishing 48
race starts and 33 eventing starts.
Tara Madgwick - Thursday, 7 September 2017
The
Hong Kong market is an important one for Australian breeders and a sire whose progeny excel in this jurisdiction
adds an important string to his bow.
Tara Madgwick - Wednesday, 6 September 2017
Champion
sire Fastnet Rock reeled off two blue-blooded three year-old maiden winners at
Warwick Farm and Sandown on Wednesday.
Tara Madgwick - Wednesday, 6 September 2017
Promising
Sebring gelding Our Mantra opened his account with a strong finishing win at
Canterbury on Wednesday.
Tara Madgwick - Wednesday, 6 September 2017
Talented
All Too Hard colt Superhard made it two wins in as many starts when he saluted
at Sandown on Wednesday in the Champion Thoroughbreds colours.
Tara Madgwick - Wednesday, 6 September 2017
Chinese businessman Zhang Yuesheng's extensive bloodstock portfolio now
includes a significant investment in the New Zealand industry.
Tara Madgwick - Wednesday, 6 September 2017
The
Daily Debutants list for Wednesday features a half-brother to a dual Group I
winner and the last foal of Group I ATC Coolmore Classic winner Bollinger.
Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 5 September 2017
One
of the few top class North American sires to enjoy ongoing success as a sire in
Australia, Darley's Medaglia D'Oro (USA) was making news in the US this week
when siring his fifth Group I winner of the year.
Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 5 September 2017
Ultra
Racing have been making news of late with their rising star colt Addictive
Nature, but it was a homebred that had Sean Buckley’s black and emerald green chevrons
in the winner’s circle at Pakenham on Tuesday.
Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 5 September 2017
One of the fastest gallops at the Inglis Ready2Race
breeze up session at Cranbourne on Monday morning was turned in by a stunning
grey son of Aquis Farm's Artie Schiller (USA), who is closely related to former
brilliant grey filly Secret Land.
Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 5 September 2017
A
half-brother to Group I winner Complacent, Godolphin blueblood Ataraxia resumed
from a spell to score his first win at Newcastle on Tuesday downing the short
priced favourite Legendofoz.
Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 5 September 2017
Mungrup
Stud freshman Playing God jumped the gun when the first 2yo trials of the
season were conducted at Belmont on Monday morning.
Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 5 September 2017
Fraser Auret will always have the fondest of
memories of his two-time Group One winner Julinsky Prince.
Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 5 September 2017
Melbourne
Cup hopeful Chocante has impressed his connections with his third placing to
glamour mare Winx and bold front-runner Red Excitement in the Group II Chelmsford
Stakes (1600m) at Randwick on Saturday.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 4 September 2017
The Melbourne breeze-ups for the 2017 Inglis Ready2Race sale have today been completed at a wet and windy Cranbourne Turf Club, with 82 horses dashing around the track on their way to the sale.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 4 September 2017
So
You Think had runners in both the Victoria Derby and Oaks last spring, so when one
of his three year-olds breaks their maiden like this we want to know more.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 4 September 2017
Two
juvenile trials at the Cranbourne training track in Victoria on Monday morning
produced interesting winners for the Tony McEvoy stable by I Am Invincible and
first season sire Zoustar.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 4 September 2017
The
Rosehill barrier trials on Monday morning featured a heat for new season two
year-olds which was won by an I Am Invincible colt from the Gai Waterhouse and
Adrian Bott stable.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 4 September 2017
Top
class mare Savanna Amour burst back to her best form at Caulfield on Saturday
with a tenacious win in the Group III MRC Cockram Stakes, her dam Savanna La
Mar a confirmed booking to visit Newgate Farm's brilliant Group I winning
sprinter Flying Artie this spring.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 4 September 2017
The spring carnival is not just all about rising star colt Royal Symphony for Aquis Farm's Domesday.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 4 September 2017
What do Wolf Cry and Winx have in common?.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 4 September 2017
The Jimmy Choux
yearling colt at Lot 6 in the current gavelhouse.
Tara Madgwick - Monday, 4 September 2017
Westbury
Stud's dashing grey Group I winner Reliable Man (GB) has sired his first
stakes-winner with a dominant win in the Group III 144th Steinhoff
Zukunftsrennen at Baden Baden in Germany on Sunday for unbeaten filly Narella.
Mark Smith - Sunday, 3 September 2017
Kevin Manning rode the wonderful Alexander Goldrun (IRE) in all 31 starts around the globe so it was fitting he should be in the saddle when Alexander Goldrun's 3-year-old Frankel filly Goldrush carried the China Horse Club
colours to victory China Horse in a 17-runner maiden at h is career debut at Na van.
Tara Madgwick - Sunday, 3 September 2017
When
spring is in the air it's always the time to go looking for a High Chaparral
(IRE) three year-old on the up.
Tara Madgwick - Sunday, 3 September 2017
The
opening race at Caulfield on Saturday was won in good style by lightly raced
Sepoy filly Watchmespin, a $150,000 Magic Millions purchase from the Mill Park
draft with Group I aspirations.
Racenet - Sunday, 3 September 2017
Widden
Stud's Nicconi kicked the Hong Kong season of in style with a brilliant debut
winner in the first race of the new year.
Racenet - Sunday, 3 September 2017
With the first two year-old trials still a week
or two away we're focussing on the three year-olds of which there were plenty
in the past week, so here's the list of barrier trial placegetters from around
the country in the past week with breeding and sale details.
Tara Madgwick - Saturday, 2 September 2017
A
prolific winner of seven races before Saturday, talented Not a Single Doubt
mare Hell or Highwater finally gained the Black Type victory she so richly deserved
when taking out the Listed MRC Heatherlie Stakes at Caulfield.
Tara Madgwick - Saturday, 2 September 2017
Twice
second in Group I sprints last season, classy six year-old I Am Invincible gelding
Voodoo Lad resumed from a spell to score a comfortable win in the Group III MRC
The Heath Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday.
Mark Smith - Saturday, 2 September 2017
Despite earning over $2 million, a Group I win has proved elusive for Happy Clapper, however, the strapping son of Teofilo (IRE) will be among the main fancies for the Group I Epsom Handicap after earning a ballot exemption with his win in Saturday's Group II Tattersalls Club Tramway Stakes at Randwick.
Tara Madgwick - Saturday, 2 September 2017
Champion
sire Fastnet Rock had a great crop of two year-olds last season and that
success has quickly translated into serious spring aspirations with exciting
Group wins on Saturday for Formality in Sydney and unbeaten Merchant Navy in
Melbourne.
Mark Smith - Sunday, 3 September 2017
In the end it was not the heart stopping finish of the Warwick Stakes, however, Saturday's $250,000 Group II Tatts Club Chelmsford Stakes (1600m) at Randwick proved no less intriguing.
Tara Madgwick - Saturday, 2 September 2017
Shelley Hale's previous success with the family
of Close Up was trumped at Hastings where the eight-year-old came off the
ballot to triumph in Saturday's Group I Tarzino Trophy.
Mark Smith - Saturday, 2 September 2017
Kerrin McEvoy made sure he played to
Redzel's strength in Saturday's $150,000 Group III Concorde Stakes (1000m) at Randwick, firing the son of Snitzel from the barriers then grinding his three opponents into the ground with a brilliant display of speed.
Tara Madgwick - Saturday, 2 September 2017
Tony Pike won't be rushed into any decision on
the immediate future of the well-related Bostonian.
Mark Smith - Saturday, 2 September 2017
A star in his native Western Australia, Vega Magic is making a believer of even the most cynical easterner with another flawless performance when downing another former WA star Black Heart Bart in Saturday's $1million Group I New Zealand Bloodstock Memsie Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield.
Mark Smith - Saturday, 2 September 2017
Ben Melham spent the greater part of the Caulfield straight trying to extract Savanna Amour out of a zip fastener pocket, but once the daughter of Love Conquers All found clear air she accelerated quickly to claim the $150,000 Group III Ladbrokes Cockram Stakes (1200m).
Mark Smith - Saturday, 2 September 2017
John Ramsay needed just $5,000 to take home the broodmare Superb Lady at the 2016 Magic Millions Broodmare Sale and the foal she was carrying at the time, Super Ex, led home the $1,600,000 Frankel colt Merovee and Godolphin's blue-blooded Street Cry colt Beau Geste, who is out of a $1,150,000
mare, in Saturday's ANZ Bloodstock News Hcp (1300m) at Randwick.
Racenet - Saturday, 2 September 2017
A full field of 14 will line up in Saturday's A$200,000 Inglis
China-Australia Cup Final (1200m) at Yulong Racecourse in Shanxi.
Tara Madgwick - Saturday, 2 September 2017
Standing
at Coolmore Australia in the Hunter Valley this spring, Starspangledbanner
sired a stakes-winner overnight in France when classy mare Meliora took out the
Listed Grand Prix de Fontainbleau for the second year in a row.
Tara Madgwick - Friday, 1 September 2017
Group
III placed last season in the Kembla Classic, talented Snitzel mare Lubiton put
the writing on the wall she was in for a good campaign when winning first up at
Canterbury last month and went right on with the job when taking out the Listed
Mona Lisa Stakes at Wyong on Friday.
Mark Smith - Friday, 1 September 2017
Ageless warrior Destiny's Kiss kicked off his seventh season on the track with a typically fighting win in Friday's $160,000 Listed Carlton Mid Wyong Cup (2100m).
Tara Madgwick - Friday, 1 September 2017
AS
a full brother to Group I winner Sweet Idea it’s no wonder this colt made
$1,100,000 when offered at the Magic Millions by Arrowfield Stud.
Mark Smith - Friday, 1 September 2017
Having to compete for exposure with Triple Crown hero American Pharoah (USA) as the new boys on the Coolmore sire roster in 2017 would seem a daunting task, however, breeders have flocked to Air Force Blue (USA) and it's not difficult to see why.
Tara Madgwick - Friday, 1 September 2017
A
day after three-year-old Savabeel colt Addictive Nature recorded his first
stakes success by winning the Group III ATC Ming Dynasty over 1400m at Rosehill
Gardens, his dam Generous Nature foaled an impressive half-sister at Sledmere
Stud.
Mark Smith - Friday, 1 September 2017
Any number of three-year-old’s nominated for Saturday’s Group III H D F McNeil Stakes (1200m) would be a worthy candidate for Best On Breeding, however, we have settled on a colt that comes from the family of the highly promising High Chaparral filly Anchor Bid who did the right thing by us at Flemington recently.
Racenet - Friday, 1 September 2017
All
is in readiness for next week's official breeze-ups ahead of the 2017 Inglis
Ready2Race Sale.
Racenet - Friday, 1 September 2017
Launched in December
2014 after 3 years of development Bloodstock Auction has just celebrated their
100th Online Thoroughbred Auction.
Tara Madgwick - Friday, 1 September 2017
Aquis
Farm shuttler Dream Ahead (USA) has been in hot form during the month of August
adding yet another new stakes-winner to his tally with a victory in the Listed
Abergwaun Stakes at Tipperary in Ireland overnight for promising filly Gorane.