The 2010-11 ANZ Classifications have been released reflecting the best individual performances by horses during the recently concluded racing year in Australia and New Zealand.
Two horses dominated the last season and in many ways they are completely different. Black Caviar (Bel Esprit) dominated the sprinters, So You Think (High Chaparral) was the dominant middle-distance runner.
At the start of August last year, few punters would have been prepared to back Lonhro to win the Australian General Sires Championship, but with just over a month of the season to go the former Horse of the Year has it in the bag.
Fairytale filly Yosei ended the season on a high for Inglis graduates when upsetting odds-on favourite Beaded in the Group 1 Tatt’s Tiara at Eagle Farm today.
WYONG trainer Stephen Farley and a huge team of owners turned the Eagle Farm parade ring into an arena of joy after Sincero charged home to win the $1 million Stradbroke Handicap yesterday.
Sincero stamped himself as one of Australia’s best three-year-olds when coming with a well-timed run to gun down top mare Beaded in today’s $1Million Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm.
With eight winners in the past seven days including Group I Doomben 10,000 heroine Beaded, Darley based Lonhro has edged to the lead on the Australian Generals Sires List by earnings.
Response atoned for a luckless first up defeat when taking the Group 1 Robert Sangster Stakes, while in Sydney Galizani proved herself a stayer of the future in a great day for Easter Session II graduates.
BLUE-BLOODED colt Light Brigade is coming into "prime time" and now needs to live up to his pedigree as he tackles the middle-distance Classics, starting with Saturday's Group 1 Rosehill Guineas.
As Black Caviar once again routed a top-class field of sprinters in the time-honoured Newmarket Handicap (G1) at Flemington on Saturday it is clear that the hulking daughter of Bel Esprit is, quite scaringly, improving with every run.
Between them Lonhro’s daughters Obsequious and Beaded have accumulated over $1 million from 20 starts and they took centre stage at Randwick and Caulfield on Saturday with a Group double.
The people's mare, Hot Danish, is heading north for Saturday's Doomben 10,000 and trainer Les Bridge is confident the strapping six-year-old will receive a surface to suit in the group 1 event.