Widden Stud and Bangaloe Stud have joined forces to purchase Group 2-winning mare Coeur Volante for $500,000 through Inglis Digital. The daughter of Proisir, currently in training with Lindsay Park, was offered as part of the Spring Boutique Sale and will now head to the breeding barn for a planned… Read More »
Starspangledbanner has reached a career-high service fee of €60,000 at Coolmore Ireland, with the surge fuelled largely by the breakout success of his Group 1-winning son Gstaad. Gstaad claimed the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Del Mar last week, becoming one of 15 stakes winners worldwide for Starspangledbanner in 2025…. Read More »
The Gr.3 Golden Gift is a feature event on Saturday’s Rosehill card, a $1 million race for the two-year-olds. A mixture of the quite cheap, the expensive and the very expensive provide for an interesting pre-Christmas juvenile contest. REVENGEANCE Breeding: Hellbent – Havasu (Sacred Falls) A $100,000 graduate of the… Read More »
Raheen Stud has announced the sad passing of promising young stallion Top Ranked (IRE), who was euthanised on Thursday following a short illness. The Group 1 Epsom Handicap winner had made an immediate impact at stud, covering more than 200 mares across his first two seasons while displaying strong fertility…. Read More »
An expensive price tag is no guarantee of success, but beautifully bred colt The Next Episode will be given an early shot at returning a percentage of his when he lines up in the $1 million Golden Gift at Rosehill. A son of champion sire Snitzel out of multiple stakes-winning mare Humma… Read More »
The second Classic for the week, this time for the girls, the VRC Oaks was born the same year – 1861 – as the Melbourne Cup. We take an in-depth look into the pedigree backgrounds of this year’s runners… Oaks Odds 💰: View the Odds for the VRC Oaks 1…. Read More »
Blue Gum Farm has announced the heartbreaking passing of young stallion Sejardan, who suffered a sudden and catastrophic injury on Tuesday. Despite urgent veterinary assistance led by Dr Angus Adkins and the team at Avenel Equine Hospital, the rising sire could not be saved. Sejardan arrived at stud in 2023… Read More »
A look into the pedigrees of the field for this year’s $1 million Group 1 VRC Oaks to see who might be best-equipped to run the 2500 metres at Flemington. Oaks Odds 💰: View the Odds for the VRC Oaks 1 – GETTA GOOD FEELING Breeding: So You Think x… Read More »
The world’s richest handicap, the $10 million Gr.1 Melbourne Cup – the race everyone wants to win. A race with an honour roll featuring champions and horses with humbler records. One which has become harder to decipher with the influx of visitors in recent years… we hope a look at… Read More »
Each year as we approach the running of the Gr.1 VRC Derby, we ask ‘which of these horses have the best 2500m pedigrees?’ Which of the mostly lightly raced group of up-and-comers are going to reach the Classic heights early in their three-year-old careers? It takes a combination of maturity,… Read More »
Australian buyers have again made their mark at Newmarket, with several high-profile stables adding new European talent on the opening day of the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale. Ciaron Maher, Chris Waller and Henry Dwyer were all active, securing well-credentialed imports with an eye toward next year’s major staying… Read More »
The countdown to the New Zealand Bloodstock 2025 Ready to Run Sale is officially underway, with breeze-up videos now live on NZB’s website for buyers and agents to study ahead of the premier two-year-old auction. Over 380 juveniles took to Te Rapa’s home straight across two days earlier this week,… Read More »
Record-breaking US sprinter Cogburn has been withdrawn from service at Widden Stud after fertility issues emerged early in his debut southern hemisphere season, with the decision made to send the young stallion back to America. The setback comes as a surprise to both Widden principal Antony Thompson and WinStar Farm… Read More »
A colt foal by Japanese superstar Equinox out of Australian Group 1 winner Mystic Journey has fetched an impressive 130 million yen — the equivalent of $1.34 million AUD — at the Northern Farm Mixed Foals Sale in Japan. The striking youngster, bred and offered by Northern Farm, was purchased… Read More »
Champion racehorse and stallion So You Think has passed away, just days before the running of the race that made him a legend — the Cox Plate. Coolmore confirmed on Monday afternoon that the 19-year-old dual Cox Plate winner and prolific sire of more than 60 stakes winners had succumbed… Read More »
The Inglis Ready 2 Race Sale on Thursday produced a glowing endorsement for the progeny of Written By through the eyes of Asian buyers with five offered and all of them sold to either Hong Kong or Malaysia at an average $256,000. A Group I winning son of Written Tycoon,… Read More »
The highest-priced colt ever sold at an Inglis Ready2Race Sale topped a record day of trade that resulted in the biggest turnover in the sale’s history yesterday. A Toronado x Baccarat Baby colt from Hunters Lodge sold to Hermitage Thoroughbreds for $900,000, helping the sale’s gross reach $19,054,000, eclipsing the… Read More »
Champion mare Melody Belle’s first foal to hit the track, Lyrics ‘N’ Song, is set to debut at Moonee Valley on Friday, with trainer Mark Walker rating the three-year-old filly as well above the standard for this stage of her career. Melody Belle, who carried the Fortuna syndicate’s colours to… Read More »
The rise of Half Yours as a genuine Caulfield Cup contender has seen his sire St Jean’s service fee jump sharply to $11,000 (inc GST) this season. Prepared by Tony and Calvin McEvoy, Half Yours booked his place in the Cup with an emphatic victory in the Group 3 Naturalism… Read More »
The future of Caulfield Guineas winner Griff’s first season at stud is unclear as a welfare investigation continues into a Tasmanian thoroughbred property. Weona Park, described as a “family-run boutique thoroughbred performance horse stud,” is the focus of a probe led by Tasmanian Racing Integrity Commissioner Sean Carroll. Authorities including… Read More »
