The fourth race on today’s Magic Millions series race day at the Gold Coast racecourse is the Magic Millions Sprint. We take a look at the sales prices and buyers of each of the runners in the field. Eagle Falls was the most expensive purchase at $170k followed by Confident… Read More »
The feature race of the day is the Magic Millions Classic in which we have a full field of two year olds who have gone through the Magic Millions sales last year. The early favourite for the race Assail is a late scratching in the race so the new favourite… Read More »
The prelude to the feature race today is the Magic Millions Guineas for three year olds. The current favourite is Sizzling who was a $260k purchase from the Magic Millions sales whilst the most expensive horse in the race is No Looking Back who has been heavily supported after losing… Read More »
The first of the major Magic Millions race series kicks off in race two with the Magic Millions Stayers Cup. We take a look at what each horse in the race cost when purchased through the Magic Millions sales ring with Bid Spotter being by far the most expensive horse at… Read More »
Australian Group One winners Sepoy and Helmet will stand for STG15,000 ($A23,000) and STG10,000 ($A15,300) respectively in their first northern hemisphere season. Helmet will stand at Sheikh Mohammed’s Kildangan Stud in Ireland while Sepoy will be based at the sheikh’s Dalham Hall in England. Darley have announced fees for all… Read More »
Champion racehorse Frankel will stand his first season at stud for a fee of STG125,000 ($A191,556). Rated as the best racehorse in the world after ending his career unbeaten in 14 races, Frankel will be based at owner Khalid Abdullah’s Banstead Manor Farm in Newmarket. He will be joined on… Read More »
The excitement of Ocean Park’s Cox Plate win has been tempered by concerns over the health of his sire Thorn Park who is battling laminitis. The 2004 Stradbroke Handicap winner was withdrawn from stallion duties at New Zealand’s Windsor Park Stud last month after contracting an infection leading to the… Read More »
Champion sire Flying Spur has been retired from the stallion roster at Arrowfield Stud at the age of 20 due to fertility issues. Arrowfield boss John Messara said the son of Danehill had experienced a sudden and irreversible decline in fertility this season. “Flying Spur is a very special horse… Read More »
Darley Australia’s plan to reinvent the southern hemisphere stud career of shuttle stallion Street Cry will have its first test under racing conditions at Rosehill on Saturday. The sire of Melbourne Cup winner Shocking, Street Cry will be represented by the pre-post favourite Crotchet in the Sydney Children’s Hospital Plate… Read More »
Exciting Victorian sire Zupaone offers superb value with his 2012 service fee at just $5,500. Zupaone is now standing at Rangal Park Stud located just five minutes out of Euroa. A Group 3 winner in his own right, Zupaone is the impeccably bred son of Group One winners Flying Spur… Read More »
Evergreen stallion Zabeel remains at the top of the tree as he prepares to begin his 22nd season at New Zealand’s Cambridge Stud. He added another string to his bow at the end of the 2011/12 season as the leading broodmare sire in both Australia and New Zealand. Zabeel has… Read More »
Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown will not be returning to Australia for the upcoming thoroughbred breeding season, Vinery Stud announced on Monday. A Vinery statement said the high-profile stallion was unfit to shuttle for a third southern hemisphere season because of a leg injury. Big Brown has reportedly sustained a… Read More »
A half-sister to Black Caviar has stolen the show at the second session of the Australian Easter Yearling Sale in Sydney, selling for $2.6 million. The daughter of Redoute’s Choice was knocked down to BC3 Thoroughbreds and will be trained in Melbourne by Danny O’Brien. Bidding on the filly was… Read More »
The 2012 Golden Slipper will be run on Saturday 7th April at Rosehill racecourse. The Golden Slipper is the richest 2YO race in the world and has prize money worth $3.5million dollars. We take a look at all of the runners in the race, who purchased the runner and how much the… Read More »
Zenyatta, US racing’s 2010 Horse of the Year, has foaled a colt sired by 2006 Preakness winner Bernardini. The foal was born at Lane’s End Farm in Versailles, Kentucky, on Thursday and weighed in at 130 pounds. After winning the coveted Breeders’ Cup Classic in 2009, Zenyatta became a crossover… Read More »
Breeders head into the first day of the second-tier Select Sale at Karaka on Wednesday hoping the market can continue the momentum from an improved second day of the Premier Sale. New Zealand Bloodstock’s Premier Sale average jumped from $NZ145,985 ($A113,766) at the end of day one to $NZ154,677 over… Read More »
David Ellis paid $NZ1.75 million ($A1.36 million) for a half-brother to King’s Rose and then declared he hoped the colt would later be worth “real money”. The head of the Te Akau racing and breeding operation, Ellis bought the Fastnet Rock-Nureyev’s Girl colt from the Cambridge Stud draft at the… Read More »
A half brother to Group One winner King’s Rose has fetched $NZ1.75 million ($A1.36 million) at New Zealand’s Premier Yearling sale. David Ellis of Te Akau Stud won out in a bidding duel with Irish conglomerate Coolmore to secure the Fastnet Rock colt out of Nureyev’s Girl. Ellis said he… Read More »
Buyers from around the world have gathered south of Auckland for the national yearling sales at Karaka. Prime Minister John Key will open New Zealand Bloodstock’s 86th National Yearling Sales Series on Monday. The six-day event offers 1444 horses and a three-quarter brother to So You Think is among the… Read More »
A three-quarter brother to So You Think is among the headline horses going up for sale at the Premier Yearling Sale at Karaka, south of Auckland.
