Any stallion running at 12 per cent stakes-winners-to runners is always going to prove a commercial hit, but when you add in the scarcity factor of fertility limitation, it creates a formula where you can expect records to be broken. Such has been the tale of the latest yearling crop by Newgate’s Extreme Choice.
In this week’s Rowe On Monday, Peter Murray on owning a sudden blue hen, Linda Monds reflects on the state of the industry, Sebastian Hutch on where the new investment is coming from and Dr Ahmed's Australian flavour to his Libyan thoroughbred renaissance.
Newgate Farm principal Henry Field has struck an arrangement with his former employer Coolmore, with talented Group 1-placed colt Wodeton to stand at his Hunter Valley operation later this year.
As New Zealand edges closer to securing a fresh influx of international capital, industry leaders believe favourable economic conditions are helping attract a new wave of global thoroughbred investors.
After producing a string of Group 1 winners from Tyreel Stud, Linda and Laurence Monds are scaling down their operation to spend more time with family, bringing to a close a highly successful 12-year chapter in thoroughbred breeding.
The Magic Millions National sales series has turned over $97 million across five days of selling, with the yearling allotment contributing more than $12 million to the overall aggregate on the Gold Coast.
In the space of seven years, the number of broodmares and race fillies offered annually at live auctions in Australia has slumped by close to 70 per cent. The switch to digital sales has changed the landscape for selling breeding stock. Run The Numbers digs into the details.
A colt by international sire Lope De Vega and fillies by Extreme Choice and I Am Invincible have helped Magic Millions National Yearling Sale trade surge $1.5 million compared to the opening day of last year.
In this week's Rowe On Monday, a high-powered syndicate will have some thinking to do if Berzelius continues on his winning way in the JJ Atkins, double delight for All Too Hard at Sha Tin, and a Lindsay Park "win" over the McEvoy stable.
An “uneven playing field” which sees syndicators subject to greater compliance than trainers when it comes to the promotion or sale of racehorses is likely to continue, as Australia’s lead corporate regulator reviews the laws around managed investments.
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