A record individual broodmare price – to complement yesterday’s record individual weanling price - has seen the 2021 Great Southern Sale end as “the best ever’’.
Reigning’s win at Rosehill on Saturday recalls his stakes-winning half-sister Averau who was one of the first pin hooks sold by fledgling farm Burnewang North in 2010. This week they look forward to presenting the second-largest draft of weanlings (23) at the Melbourne Great Southern Sale commencing Sunday 21 June.
The Hunter Thoroughbred Breeders today welcomed the decision of the NSW Planning Assessment Commission that the economic benefits of the Drayton South project do not outweigh the potential demise of the Hunter Valley’s equine industry and that the project is not in the public interest.
Ryan Maloney declared unbeaten filly Girl In Flight a “star” as Robbie Griffiths unveiled Australasian Oaks ambitions following her win in today’s Leigh Thomas Gift at Caulfield.
A positive ride by Nathan Berry has given him his first Group win on Va Pensiero in the Run To The Rose and erased trainer Jason Coyle's pre-race doubts the colt could win.
The connections of Inglis graduates Samaready and Va Pensiero are set to aim higher at Group 1 events during the upcoming spring following victories at Group 3 level in Melbourne and Sydney respectively on Saturday.
Stratum colt Va Pensiero joined fellow Inglis graduates Snitzerland and Foxwedge as recent winners of the Group 3 ATC San Domenico Stakes when dashing away with the three-year-old feature in Sydney on Saturday.
The Hunter Thoroughbred Breeders Association has called for a Special Commission of Inquiry as a second Exploration Licence is referred by the NSW Government to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC).
Black Caviar’s trailblazing deeds have had a profound impact on the 2010-11 Stable Financial Victorian Owners and Breeders Awards which were presented at the MCG pn Friday evening, 29 July.