YES YES YES
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Champion 3YO Colt Yes Yes Yes (Rubick-Sin Sin Sin, by Fantastic Light) is on target to be the leading first season sire next season with many of his…
With eleven stallions in NSW and ten in Victoria, Widden Stud has a huge range of choice for broodmare owners in 2023. Their roster is led by Zoustar (Northern Meteor) who will stand in 2023 for $220,000 thanks to the deeds of his Gr1 winners Sunlight, Zoutori, Zougotcha, Mizzy, and Lezoo. New in 2023 for…
HOPESPRINGSETERNAL the daughter of champion Buckpasser whose genetic influence is certain to have a lasting effect on the breed. Written By’s dam Yau Chin is linebred 4 x 4 to this wonderful mare.
Widden Stud’s young stallion Written By, the champion 2YO Colt of his generation, is an exciting young son of leading sire Written…
A close association with Louis Mihalyka’s Laurel Oak Bloodstock going back over 30 years has given Matt Grady a deep knowledge and understanding of the racing industry.
A very large percentage of what I know about the industry has come from working with Louis,” Matt says. “I could say that he has sculptured me in…
The first weekend in March saw the history making victory of Legarto - the first New Zealand trained horse to win the race - in the Australian Guineas-Gr1. That event served as a reminder of the still growing legacy of his grandsire, Choisir. A horse who himself recorded a history-making first as a runner, Choisir…
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…
“Look back into your mighty ancestors”
-Shakespeare, Henry The Fifth
The new millennium started auspiciously, I was fortunate enough to be at Royal Ascot in the year 2000 for The Prince Of Wales’s Stakes to watch Dubai Millennium contest the race.
Dubai Millennium (Seeking The Gold – Colorado Dancer by Shareef Dancer) had famously been…
With successful stallions like Deep Field, Shamus Award, All Too Hard and Champion Sire in South Africa Gimmethegreenlight all Inglis Easter Yearling Sale graduates, this year’s first season sires are headlined by Gr1 winner Exceedance who was sold at the 2018 Easter sale for $180,000. The Gr1 winner promises to become another in the long…
In 2022 three outstanding thoroughbred individuals emerged
Flightline
Alpinista
Baaeed
Namely five year old grey mare ALPINISTA, England’s brilliant four year-old miler BAAEED and America’s undefeated four year-old colt FLIGHTLINE who is most likely to be crowned U.S. Horse of the Year.
In reviewing the six-cross extended pedigrees of champion performers in 2022, the standout duplicated ancestor is…
On the nod of his head, maybe a wink and an inevitable smile, David Ellis has conducted millions of dollars’ worth of business at Karaka. New Zealand Bloodstock’s arena has long been the Te Akau chief’s favourite domain and with numerous Group 1 reasons.
It’s serious business and the Te Akau chief delights in his…