Australian bred sprinters Not Listenin'tome and Lucky Bubbles filled the quinella in the Group II Bochk Wealth Mgmt Jockey Club Sprint at Sha Tin on Sunday, the race also featuring the return of the great HK Champion Able Friend.
Four of the nine races at Turffontein in South Africa on Saturday were won by Aussie breds headed by champion Redoute’s Choice filly Majmu who beat older mares to win the Group I Empress Club Stakes.
When Oratorio sires a stakes-winner in Western Australia we tend to assume it's Australian bred Oratorio, but in the case of Miss Solis it was Irish bred Oratorio (IRE).
With more than 90 vendors consigning horses to the 2011 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale starting in Sydney next Sunday at Newmarket it’s easy for a brand new vendor to get lost in the crowd, but that won’t be happening to Mary Bray of Cinque Cavalli.
A pictorial of the televised TVN First Season Sires Weanling Parade conducted at Newmarket this morning ahead of the start of Inglis Australian Weanling & Breeding Stock Sale is now online.
Figures released by Michael Ford, Keeper of the Australian Stud Book, show that Thoroughbred coverings for 2008 will be around 26,100 mares with Fastnet Rock (pictured) the busiest of all stallions last spring covering 248 mares at Coolmore in the Hunter Valley.