The Chosen One
It was a good spring for Phoenix Park graduates with the likes of The Chosen One and Princess Jenni doing the farm’s Janine Dunlop proud with gutsy efforts in Melbourne carnival feature staying contests.
Already a three times Group winner leading into the spring, The Chosen One was a first up winner over 1700m…
Racing is a game of risk, and good judges of yearlings know there is great reward to be had when buying from farms with excellent stakes winner production records. From only small drafts, the paddocks of Highden Park continue to produce quality racehorses with this year’s Gr.1 Australasian Oaks winner Toffee Tongue being the latest…
Cambridge Stud continues to thrive under new management with a strong investment into the New Zealand racing and breeding scene. The rewards have been coming their way with several promising types have already begun to emerge from the Cambridge Stud draft of 2019, who are currently half-way through their three year-old season, including Gr.1 placed…
Frankle
The rise and rise of Yulong as a major player in the Australian bloodstock market continues unabated. Progress in 2020 can be measured by the strong showing at January’s Magic Millions Gold Coast Sale, Gr.1 success for Mr Zhang’s green, white checked sleeves both domestically and in Europe, and the continued development at its three…
The old story is that it takes 40 years of hard work and dedication to become an overnight success. Yarraman Park at Scone is an excellent case in point. Harry Mitchell elaborated recently, “Arthur and I have been very fortunate, after many years of hard work we now have a top commercial sire in I…
New Zealand’s Breeder of the Year will offer a rare selection of yearlings at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale. Waikato Stud tend to send a few yearlings to Australia every year through other vendor’s drafts, however, they have brought drafts to this sale under their own name in the past as well.
Savabeel
Bluebloods asked…
Vinery Stud has an enviable record with their Magic Millions Gold Coast graduates, and it is one that buyers should pay attention to in 2021. Since 2018, Vinery Stud has sold Gr.1 Golden Slipper winner and Champion 2yo Farnan, Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner Exhilarates (who went on to be a Group winner and won…
What a year the historic Tyreel Stud in the capable hands of Linda and Laurence Monds, is enjoying, cheering on the likes of Behemoth (Memsie Stakes-Gr.1, 1400m, Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes-Gr.1, 1400m), Classique Legend (The Everest, 1200m) and Montefilia (Flight Stakes-Gr.1, 1600m, Spring Champion Stakes-Gr.1, 2000m) to big race success.
The two dual Group One winners…
Turangga Farm is maintaining its long standing record of sending yearlings to the January sale, but this time the yearlings are being prepared by Cameron and Kellie Bond’s Kenmore Lodge and Alexia Fraser Bloodstock.
Headway
These yearlings have been raised on the special pastures of Turangga, smack bang in the middle of the famed Segenhoe Valley just…
Steve and Eliza Grant established their Silverdale Farm just a few short years ago at Avoca in the fertile NSW Southern Highlands. Their plan was to become one of the nation’s leading commercial breeders and they have taken one of the biggest steps in the journey to making that dream a reality with the first…