Yarraman Park’s Harry Mitchell vividly remembers the late Guy Walter cornering him in the Scone mounting yard during the 2014 Cup Carnival early in Sense Of Occasion’s career to tell him how good he believed the horse was.
Impressive two-year-old Look To The Stars has taken her career earnings past $220,000 today with a powerful win in the $250,000 Group 2 BRC Sires’ Produce Stakes at Doomben defeating Blueberry Hill and Cylinder Beach.
The reputation of Newgate Farm among the Australian breeding ranks continues to rise after it secured the rights to stand Royal Ascot-bound Wandjina at stud.
Triple Crown Syndications’ three-year-old Northern Meteor colt Courtza King secured his second win from just three starts yesterday when landing a two length victory in a No Metro Wins (1400m) event at Warwick Farm.
Max Hinton had success with his mare Sophie Princess at the 2002 Melbourne Cup Carnival, nearly a decade later he snagged a Group 3 race with her daughter Sophie's Spirit which won the Herald Sun Stakes.
The EW Barker Trophy lived up to its wide-open race billing with a thrilling finish that saw forgotten giant Any Humour sneak up on the rails to bag his second Group success in the smart time of 1min 22.04secs for the 1400m trip on the Short Course.
Fuelled by a tremendous program of racing at Randwick, the crowd turned out in droves for the opening session of the 2007 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale: a night session containing a relatively small, yet lucrative team of youngsters .