After having been able to hand pick the best of Darley's two-year-old arsenal for years, Kerrin McEvoy's wide-ranging pursuit of another autumn major may come a little closer to home.
Mark Newnham has been crowned the inaugural winner of the Thoroughbred Excellence Award at the Australian Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff Awards at Randwick on Tuesday.
Bernadette Hamill, Don Healy and Richard Nettleton were tonight announced as winners of their respective categories in the inaugural Australian Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff Awards. They join last week’s category winners Ben Cadden and Mark Newnham in vying for the prestigious Australian Thoroughbred Excellence Award.
Chris Waller will be hoping two of his well-performed stable servants Junoob (GB) and Pythagorean (GB) can leave his care in winning form. The imported pair are listed to go to auction in Melbourne on December 11 but not before they contest feature races this weekend in NSW and Victoria.
With a bevy of bluebloods and a last start stakes-winner engaged in the Group III VRC Emirates Airline Plate for two year-old fillies at Flemington on Cup Day, modest Nicconi filly Concealer got under the guard of punters to score a powerful win.
Hawkesbury trainer Joan Pracey claimed her second the $100,000 Inglis Trophy (1400m) at the Sale Turf Club in Victoria on Sunday. Asked To Leave won the lucrative event yesterday in very much the same manner as Upstacker in 2011, both having travelled 1,000 kms from Pracey’s home base.
As a three-quarter brother-in-blood to Group I winner and leading sire Snitzel, three year-old Redoute’s Choice colt Dark Steel has stallion potential written all over him and a win at Canterbury on Wednesday has him on the path to racetrack success.
The finalists for the seven award categories at the 2015 BMW Australian Racehorse of the Year Awards have been revealed today, setting the stage for yet another intriguing battle for the title of the nation’s top galloper.
Thoroughbred Breeders Australia (TBA) and Racing Australia have launched the Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff Awards which acknowledges the dedication and hard work of stud and stable staff.
Peter Snowden walked into the ring to try and buy a Lonhro filly at the Inglis Easter Sales last year and was blown out of the water but minutes later he was offered the chance to train Kangarilla Joy.
$160,000 is not a lot to pay for a colt by champion sire Redoute’s Choice, which is why promising three year-old Raphael’s Cat (pictured as a yearling) found himself as one of the cheapest yearlings by his sire at the 2014 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
Australian bred and Inglis sold fillies Enitsaar and Alboran Sea received accolades at the 2015 South African Racing Association Equus Awards overnight, Champion Two-year-old Filly and Champion Three-year-old Filly titles respectively.
Queensland apprentice Travis Wolfgram has often thought about heading home in the past three months he has been in Sydney, but a change of master to former champion jockey Ron Quinton has made him reassess.
"They’re kidding themselves” was what winning jockey Josh Parr said about his rivals after being handed the Sky Racing Benchmark 79 Handicap (1200m) aboard Inz’n’out at Randwick on Saturday.
As we celebrate the southern hemisphere’s first foals in 2015, and while breeders across the country are cementing mating plans for their broodmares, several of Victoria’s leading stallion farms will proudly showcase their first season sires at the 2015 Inglis August Thoroughbred Sale from 10.00am on Friday 21 August at Inglis’ Oaklands Junction in Melbourne.