Sires With Winners - Tuesday October 8

New Zealand’s darling of the turf Orchestral is set to cross the Tasman this week to tackle the Gr.1 Toorak Handicap (1600m) at Caulfield on Saturday.

We’re getting into the swing of things in podcast land so here we go again in a new episode where we talk racing and how it relates to breeding, listen in to Craig “Clocker’ Tompson and Tara Madgwick each week during spring as we talk about the past weekend where we saw the first of the new season juveniles – what do you think about two year-old racing? it seems to polarise

A quality packed catalogue for the NZB Ready to Run Sale is now online and in the lead up to the sale we’ll go looking each week for some horses of interest that jump out on pedigree for various reasons

Disappointment gave way to unbridled joy for Hermitage Thoroughbreds and Arrowfield Stud when Inglis Easter graduate Lady Shenandoah secured G1 glory in today’s Darley Flight Stakes over 1600m at Randwick.

Proven stayer Mahrajaan remains firmly on target for a crack at the Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) despite the weather ruling out an intended lead-up outing.

The Everest picture is just about finalised with Godolphin announcing their runner and the newly vacant slot held by Max Whitby, Neil Werrett and Col Madden making their selection after Saturday’s races.

The Equimillion four day show at Sydney International Equestrian Centre wrapped up on Monday evening after a marathon day of showjumping and while there will be some follow up stories come out of it, yours truly is exhausted this morning so for now this just straight links to the various discipline results so if you had an interest in a particular horse or rider read on.

The last piece of Everest puzzle has fallen into place with news Yulong will  fill their slot for the $20million sprint on October 19 with three year-old Zoustar colt Growing Empire.

Australia is one of the great horse racing countries of the world, a fact that has come into sharp focus due to the world class performances of many of its racehorses on the world stage over the last twenty-five years. Consider the performances of the likes of Choisir, So You Think, Haradasun, Elvstroem, Black Caviar, Nature Strip and, of recent times, Asfoora, at Royal Ascot in the past 25 years.

In form gelding Wolfgang has secured a plane ticket across the Tasman this week to tackle Saturday’s Gr.2 Herbert Power Stakes (2400m) at Caulfield.