Although he has decided against running talented filly Angelic Light in the Group One Goodwood, trainer Robbie Griffiths is still looking for success in two states this weekend. Griffiths decided to send Robert Sangster Stakes runner-up Angelic Light to the spelling paddock rather than to Saturday’s Goodwood at Morphettville as [...]
Galah heads to the Group One Goodwood in Adelaide on Saturday as the Darley team continues to chase a feature win with the well-bred four-year-old. The Peter Snowden-trained son of Redoute’s Choice out of Australasian Oaks winner Rinky Dink will be first-up in the feature sprint at Morphettville where he [...]
As Australian racing loses Black Caviar and All Too Hard, their half sister Belle Couture is ready to begin her career in earnest. After pre-training out of town, the two-year-old will arrive at Danny O’Brien’s Flemington stable on Tuesday in preparation for her racecourse debut late in the season. Speaking [...]
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. [...]
It probably doesn’t count as family support, but Black Caviar will have a couple of relatives on track at Randwick on Saturday. The great mare will have one of her cousins and an aunty competing in separate races on the Derby day card. Scandiva, a daughter of Black Caviar’s granddam [...]
Redoute’s Choice maintained his place as the country’s premier thoroughbred stallion and Fastnet Rock made it clear he was the heir apparent at a record-breaking Australian Easter Yearling Sale. The three-day sale that ended in Sydney on Thursday also added further to the standing of world champion sprinter Black Caviar [...]
Cars are George Altomonte’s business. Racehorses are his passion. The prominent Sydney car dealer’s Corumbene Stud in the Upper Hunter Valley has been the nursery for many horses who have given Altomonte some of his great highs in racing. He began Corumbene in 1978 to foster his interest in thoroughbred [...]
A new “pick of the sale” has emerged from Australia’s most successful ever yearling auction with a son of super sire Fastnet Rock topping the day-two offerings at the Australian Easter Yearling Sale at $4 million. Dubai businessman Nasser Lootah paid the highest price ever offered for a Fastnet Rock [...]
The legend of Black Caviar has translated into the highest price ever paid for a thoroughbred yearling at public auction in Australia with her half-brother making $5 million at the Easter Yearling Sale. A huge crowd gathered when the colt by Redoute’s Choice out of Helsinge entered the ring at [...]
It began with an opening bid of $2 million and ended three minutes later with a successful offer of $5 million and the announcement that history had been made. But the most expensive thoroughbred yearling ever sold in Australia almost didn’t make it into the ring. The colt, a half [...]
