Dunaden’s next attempt to win a European Group One will come in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud on June 23. The Mikel Delzangles-trained globetrotter famously won the Melbourne Cup in 2011 and followed up in the Hong Kong Vase. He returned to Australia to win the Caulfield Cup last year [...]
Cox Plate invitations have been given to 20 highly rated overseas racehorses, the Moonee Valley Racing Club announced on Thursday. In a bid to make the weight-for-age race an international event, the MVRC has targeted the best-credentialled horses across seven countries. They include the Aidan O’Brien-trained Camelot and Magician as [...]
Caulfield and Melbourne Cup winner Dunaden will not return to Australia this year but Sheikh Fahad’s Pearl Bloodstock will target the Cox Plate with Side Glance. The Andrew Balding-trained six-year-old was fourth in the Dubai World Cup at his most recent start. He is likely to again take on the [...]
In 2007 the newly rich Nathan Tinkler set sales rings alight, spending millions of dollars on yearlings to build a thoroughbred empire he hoped would rival that of Sheikh Mohammed. Just six years later he is getting out of racing amid mounting debt and a fall in coal prices, the [...]
Melbourne and Caulfield Cup winner Dunaden is back in trainer Mikel Delzangles’ stable at Chantilly to prepare for what may be his final campaign. But it is likely it will be without his regular partner Craig Williams. Delzangles’ wife Ann said Dunaden had wintered well and would be aimed at [...]
Melbourne Cup-winning owner Lloyd Williams’s portfolio of imported horses will be boosted by the addition of one of England’s most promising young stayers. Williams confirmed he had purchased Sea Moon, a winner at Royal Ascot, via a text message to racing media. Sea Moon’s best win was in the Group [...]
The fact millions of dollars will be traded this week on thoroughbreds with pedigrees slanted towards a quick racetrack return isn’t lost on a syndicator trying to secure a stud deal for a Melbourne Cup placegetter. Magic Millions will offer the first yearlings for sale in 2013 and there will [...]
One-time Melbourne Cup favourite and 2011 Cup placegetter Lucas Cranach has been retired from racing due to persistent injuries. The classy German entire raced three times in Australia finishing fifth in the 2011 Caulfield Cup and third to Dunaden and Red Cadeaux in that year’s Melbourne Cup. He resumed in [...]
Australian veteran Alcopop has run a gallant third in the Hong Kong International Cup, coming from last on the home turn. Last year’s winner California Memory was a decisive winner over French filly Giofra with Craig Williams bringing Alcopop along the rail to snatch third. Eight-year-old Alcopop has been in [...]
Red Cadeaux, the 2011 Melbourne Cup runner-up, has scored a Group One win that will go down as one the most deserved in international racing, taking out the Hong Kong Vase. Running in his third top-level race in three countries in five weeks, Red Cadeaux survived by a short head [...]
