KINGSTAR FARM has thrown its support behind Inglis Digital’s Online Auction platform, entering dual G1-winning sire MONACO CONSUL in the unreserved section of the upcoming March Sale.
Uniquely, the Widden Stud in the Widden Valley, a spur off the south western end of the Hunter Valley, has two young sires in its historic stallion yards shaping up very good winner-getters who were not only brilliant Group 1 winning Australian racehorses, but also performers who turned in good efforts in one of England’s most prestigious sprints, the King’s Stand at Royal Ascot.
Five sires, all Australian products who have captured the annual Champion Australian Sire title on earnings, will be among the mouthwatering collection of at least 70 which will be shown to invited disciples of breeding and racing when Hunter Valley studs conduct their pre season Stallion Parades in the period August 21-25.
In the twenty times that the Group Two Schillaci Stakes has been run as a part of the Caulfield Cup carnival, it has been won by some of racing’s true stars.
Lightly raced Stratum gelding Unpretentious has been off the scene for 47 weeks, but was turned out in top order at Caulfield on Saturday to win the Group II MRC Schillaci Stakes.
The strong fields in the BTC Cup at Eagle Farm and The Goodwood at Morphettville on Saturday, both won by the great mare, are a lingering reminder of the sheer dominance of Black Caviar.
Champion racehorse Black Caviar has been retired. She made it 25 victories in a row winning the TJ Smith at Randwick on Saturday, bringing up an Australian record 15th group 1 win.
All Too Hard strengthened his already vice-like grip on next week’s Australian Guineas with a scintillating win in today’s Cathay Pacific Futurity Stakes at Caulfield.
Like his undefeated sibling Black Caviar last week, star three-year-old All Too Hard went to another level at Caulfield this Saturday, putting on a superb display to storm away to a three length victory in the $500,000 Group 1 MRC Futurity Stakes over 1400m.
Barriers were drawn for Saturday’s 2013 Patinack Farm Blue Diamond Stakes at a function in the ‘Connections’ Owners’ Pavilion at Caulfield Racecourse today.
Australia’s top rated three-year-old colt All Too Hard collected another Group 1 victory at Caulfield on Saturday, adding the weight-for-age C.F. Orr Stakes over 1400m to his Caulfield Guineas win earlier this season.
Racing Victoria (RV) today welcomed the start of racing’s newest event, the lucrative G1 Championship, at the stables of emerging star Callanish who begins his G1 assault in tomorrow’s opening leg, the Group 1 Sportingbet C.F. Orr Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield.
Caulfield Guineas winner All Too Hard heads an impressive list of 11 nominations for Saturday’s $400,000 Sportingbet C.F. Orr Stakes (1400m), the first leg of the G1 middle-distance championship.
There will be a taste of what is to come when Australia’s unbeaten champion Black Caviar returns to the racetrack for an exhibition gallop at Caulfield this Saturday.
It's with a pep in his step that one of Victoria’s most successful racehorse owners, Phil Sly, likes to live life as he continues to fight cancer, so it’s no surprise the popular builder is gleaming as two of his juveniles prepare for Australia’s two biggest two-year-old races, the Patinack Farm Blue Diamond and AAMI Golden Slipper.
Caulfield trainer Byron Cozamanis is still a chance of having a Patinack Farm Blue Diamond runner, after making the third acceptance payment on Tuesday for his pair of weekend two-year-old debutants, Feral Cowboy and Black Temptation.