Tagaloa
When trainer Natalie Young first saw Tagaloa in Arrowfield’s 2019 Magic Millions Gold Coast draft she wrote one word on his catalogue page: Mine!.
A few days later Natalie and Trent Busuttin were rapt to buy the colt for $300,000. Little more than a year after that, they celebrated his tenacious victory in the $1.5 million…
Craig and Sue Anderson’s Amarina Farm was established in 2006 in partnership with Gavin Murphy and Catherine Donovan on 420 picturesque acres just outside the town of Denman is the Hunter Valley, on prime horse country. Craig Anderson is a true stalwart of the industry, his knowledge and experience of handling valuable thoroughbreds is second…
Victoria’s A List Stud will present their first Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling draft in 2021. A List Stud purchased a new property in 2019, and the business is run by a team led by CEO Chris Lee. The debut draft of any new farm is an exciting time, and Bluebloods spoke to Stud Manager,…
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[First Published: February 2020]
COX Plate winner and Japan’s Horse of the Year for 2019 Lys Gracieux (JPN) is a granddaughter of Sunday Silence and carries three crosses of the diminutive Lyphard in her seven generation pedigree. She also claimed the title of Japan’s Champion Older Mare in 2019, defeating reigning…
THOROUGHBRED breeders in Australasia are spoiled. We are fortunate to have access to many of the world’s most potent sire lines, thanksto the shuttle system.
Significantly, we benefit from our highly successful homebred stallions as well. Currently heading the Australian Sires’ List by progeny earnings are I Am Invincible, Snitzel and Pierro, all foaled in Australia,…
[First published March 2020]
INBRED 3mx3m to Danzig and with the Sharpen Up brothers Kris and Diesis 3x3, Shalaa (IRE) won six of his eight starts, five of them at 1200m at two, so it’s no wonder his first crop yearlings have proven so attractive to buyers this year. The son of Invincible Spirit (IRE) was…
[First published March 2020]
RICHARD Freedman’s working life has been diverse. As part of “FBI” (Freedman Brothers International) he and his brothers collected Melbourne Cups and Golden Slippers with metronomic regularity before Richard moved into the media, tried racing administration and then started a commercially successful business in the field of water management.
But things have turned…
[First published March 2020]
First is best, as all horseplayers know. First gets the big bucks. The only time first is last is when we do countdowns, whether it’s the top 100 hits all weekend, or whether it’s the top 10 worst wardrobe fails on the internet, they are always counted down in reverse order to…
[First Published in February 2020]
IT’S the time of year when the first crop sires’ table starts to become very interesting in the lead up to the Blue Diamond and Golden Slipper. At the top of the list on January 31 was Coolmore Stud’s high profile dual Gr.1 winner Pride of Dubai (Street Cry (IRE)-Al Anood…
CHAMPION sire Fastnet Rock’s nick with Zabeel daughters and with mares carrying strains of the three-quarter brothers Nureyev (dam sire of Zabeel) and Sadler’s Wells (particularly his son Galileo) is well known, but there’s another cross that has produced two Gr.1 winners. This is with daughters of Kentucky Derby-Gr.1 hero Fusaichi Pegasus (USA) who shuttled…