Star colt Pierro will stand his first season at Coolmore Stud for a service fee of $77,000. Coolmore secured Pierro in a deal announced last Friday, just days after he was retired following his second in the Doncaster Mile. Trained by Gai Waterhouse, the son of Lonhro won 11 of [...]
World Cup winner Animal Kingdom will stand his first season at stud in Australia at $38,500. Managing owner John Messara, the proprietor of Arrowfield Stud, said a decision on whether he raced at Royal Ascot before making the trip to Australia would be made in the next couple of days. [...]
A second multi-million dollar colt has been sold at the Australian Easter Yearling Sale in Sydney. A colt by Fastnet Rock was knocked down to Emirates Park for $4 million on Wednesday, a day after Black Caviar’s half-brother fetched a southern hemisphere record $5 million. The yearling is out of [...]
Another seven-figure yearling has passed through the ring early on day two of the Australian Easter Yearling Sale in Sydney. Following on from a day on which the half-brother to Black Caviar fetched an Australian record of $5 million, a filly by sire-of-the-moment Fastnet Rock sold for $1.55 million. The [...]
The Australian breeding industry has been sent in to a frenzy following Juddmonte Farm’s recent announcement that their unbeaten champion Frankel would be made available to a select group of mares to Southern Hemisphere time this September. In his first season as a stallion, Frankel will serve the cream of [...]
Expectations are that Black Caviar’s half brother will break the $3 million record for a yearling sold at auction in Australia when he goes through the sale ring in Sydney next week. But it is anyone’s guess where the bidding will stop on the blue-blooded yearling. The colt by Redoute’s [...]
With the running of the Golden Slipper 2013 on Saturday we take a look at the sale prices of each runner in the race. For the horses who went through the sales ring Havana was the most expensive horse with the Starcraft runner costing Blue Sky Thoroughbreds $290,000. We take [...]
Frankel has had his first mare scanned in foal at Banstead Manor Stud in Newmarket. The mare is the former David Wachman-trained Chrysanthemum, a dual Group Three winner and third in the Group One Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh in 2011. Frankel, who retired at the end of last [...]
We take a look at the sales prices for the two year olds for the Silver Slipper Stakes on Saturday at Rosehill. Looking at the field there wasn’t many horses that went through the sale ring but those that did Sweet Idea was the most expensive horse costing $240,000 with [...]
With the running of the 2013 Blue Diamond Stakes today we take a look at the sales prices for each of the runners in the field. With the most expensive horse being Casquets who was scratched during the week. The most expensive horse to take part in the race who [...]