Adrian Bott

When Gai Waterhouse announced she was forming a training partnership with Adrian Bott many questioned just how it was going to work? The emphatic answer should have been “brilliantly”! We spoke to Adrian at a time when he was enjoying Gr.1 wins including a Golden Slipper in his training career alongside the first lady…

ByGlen LathamApril 6, 20230Comments

Inglis Easter 2023

Corumbene Stud

By sheer ratio of Golden Slipper and Blue Diamond winners sold to foals offered, Corumbene Stud is the benchmark to which the rest of the industry aspires. Sebring, Overreach, True Jewels and who is to say Lofty Strike wouldn’t have added to that tally last year before a minor niggle put him out of the…

ByGlen LathamMarch 22, 20230Comments

Karaka 2023

Haunui Farm

Sixty is the number for Haunui Farm at Karaka 2023. Come the sale sixty yearlings will walk onto the grounds all carrying the polish of over six decades experience as vendors at New Zealand’s premier sale. Managing Director Mark Chitty gave us the good oil on the Haunui draft. Even a cursory glance through the…

ByGlen LathamJanuary 19, 20230Comments

Bluebloods Movers & Shakers

Bevan Smith

When did the current line of the family get into racing? My grandfather Fred Smith, not the very famous Fred Smith, trained in New Zealand in 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s and he started the racing bug in the family. He had a few Group quality horses and won a Hawkes Bay Cup with a horse…

ByGlen LathamOctober 27, 20220Comments

Inglis Easter 2022

Edinburgh

Eleven Eleven, wins the GCTC Magic Millions Cup (R), L, A$1,000,000, 1400m. Edinburgh’s premium families...... Even at a premier sale level like the Australian Easter, one stud presenting a draft without a weak link is rare, but in 2022 Ian Smith of Edinburgh Park Stud has achieved that feat. The sheer depth of pedigree on each…

ByGlen LathamMarch 23, 20220Comments

Inglis Easter 2022

Corumbene Stud

Lofty ambitions and high strike rates at Corumbene Oh, what could have been! But for a mild case of lameness the ruling favourite for this year’s Blue Diamond Stakes-G1, Lofty Strike, would almost certainly have been in the finish and added to the Corumbene Stud honour roll that includes Golden Slippers with Sebring and Overreach…

ByGlen LathamMarch 23, 20220Comments

MMGC 2022

Yulong

Hungry Heart The rise and rise of Yulong at the top end of the international market continued unabated through 2021, and if the outstanding draft they will take to the Gold Coast is anything to go by, 2022 looks likely to be just as prosperous for the farm and their clients. We spoke with Yulong’s Nominations…

ByGlen LathamJanuary 3, 20220Comments

MMGC 2022

Telemon Thoroughbreds

Telemon Stud’s owners Dan and Rae Fletcher have experienced the thrill of Magic Millions success from both sides of the fence. In partnership they bred and sold the filly that would win the 2018 Magic Millions 2YO Classic as Sunlight, with Rae joining the all-female ownership group. Just four years on and the Fletcher’s will…

ByGlen LathamJanuary 2, 20220Comments

MMGC 2022

Segenhoe Stud

What do dual G1 winning colt and first season sire King’s Legacy, the G2 winners Poland and Vangelic, the G3 winners Holyfield and Barbaric, and the Listed winner Ellsberg have in common? If you answered they were part of one of the most successful sales in Magic Millions history then ‘well done you’, but more…

ByGlen LathamDecember 16, 20210Comments

MMGC 2022

Kenmore Lodge

Brilliant early 2YO winner Heroic Son has been a fine advertisement for Kenmore Lodge whose MM 2022 draft promises to unearth more precocious prospects for buyers. It must be gratifying when marketing your horses as precocious types and one juvenile from the draft wins as early as October 2nd. That’s the home run Cameron and Kellie…

ByGlen LathamDecember 10, 20210Comments

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