It has been 11 racing seasons since two sons of the same stallion quinellaed the Australian sires championship, but Snitzel and The Autumn Sun are, at this stage, on track to re-create that achievement. Run The Numbers digs into the detail.
Equine Growth Fund flexed its investment muscle at the Inglis Classic, paying $540,000 for a Harry Angel colt as founder Stefan Pardi detailed the group’s strategy to make a major impression on the Australian sales season.
In today's Rowe On Monday, agent Brett Howard comes out of retirement for Magic Millions' Tasmanian sale, everyone's a winner in Closer To Free sale, Arrowfield stallions on top in sires' premiership and the implications around counting bonus prize money.
Star Thoroughbreds is looking to reprise the formula which secured it Group 1 success with Espiona after purchasing a daughter of Extreme Choice on the first day of the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale.
Lynton Farm, the Southern Tablelands training base that produced Hellbent and Eckstein, has been reborn under new management, with Jonathan Scully and Jeremy Whale unveiling their second yearling draft at the Inglis Classic.
Amid the ups and downs of the thoroughbred breeding game, the coming, and going, of two champion stallions and personal upheaval, Gray Williamson remains content on the same Western Australian farm where he grew up. He tells Jessica Owers, there is much to be positive about.
Inglis heads into Sunday’s Classic Yearling Sale on the back of a steady start to the yearling season, with clearance rates and buyer engagement pointing to another competitive sale. Chief executive Sebastian Hutch says conditions feel much the same as last year.
Racing Australia’s enforcement of foal ownership declaration rules has placed two Magic Millions-sold fillies under embargo and unable to race, raising concerns about potential flow-on effects for upcoming yearling auctions.
Via Sistina has been accompanied on her trip to the Northern Hemisphere by three other highly credentialed Yulong-owned mares.
In this week's Rowe On Monday, former jockey Barend Vorster joins Racing SA, Hidrix provides a perfect autumn scene-setter for B2B Thoroughbreds and an ex-Macau trainer laments racing's demise in the Asian casino capital.
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