Thoroughbreds who can demonstrate inbreeding to three different female families within five generations are as rare as hens’ teeth - maybe, even “blue hens’ teeth”.
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It really did not take very…
It takes a special kind of person to see a gap in the market, then target that niche as a not-for-profit business rather than trying to line their own pockets. Lindy Maurice, the driving force behind Thoroughbred Industry Careers (TIC), is one such lady. TIC is in its third year of shepherding young people with…
Simon Vivian
An Adelaide father shares with his young son the laborious task of laying concrete down a driveway. To make the time pass more quickly, he has the radio on. As an avid sports fan and keen owner of a couple of thoroughbreds the racing station is his entertainment of choice.
He gets his son to…
Sebastian Hutch
With COVID’s cloud lurking over a second Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale we talked with the company’s General Manager Bloodstock Sales and Marketing, Sebastian Hutch, to get his perspective on the past 12 months, and what we can look forward to at Riverside in April.
Despite predictions of Armageddon this time last year, the Australasian…
Merchant Navy
On face value, two of the headline acts among the first-season sires represented at the 2021 Australian Easter Yearling Sale would not appear to have that much in common. But a closer examination of the backgrounds
of Coolmore’s Merchant Navy and Newgate’s Russian Revolution reveals some remarkably parallel lines.
One degree of separation, you could say.
The…
One of the undoubted highlights of last season in Europe was the performance of first-crop sire Mehmas, who ended the year with no fewer than a record-smashing 56 winning two-year-olds.
TO put that achievement into perspective, the previous record holder, Darley’s Iffraaj, amassed 38 in his first season over ten years ago. Even that number was…
Brett Cavanough
Since the advent of political correctness about 50 years ago much of the western world’s population seems to have been sapped of individual personality. This is particularly evident in the thoroughbred industry, which has been littered with characters through much of its 200 year-plus history in Australia. But one man who remains larger-than-life is…
Tiger of Malay
Tyreel Stud's name has been synonymous with Easter success for years and under the leadership of the Monds family the famed Hawkesbury Valley farm continues to excel.
At last year's Easter sale Tyreel Stud sold five horses for a total in excess of $2.4 million and already those youngsters are making their mark with…
I Am Invincible
“The best of Shadwell breeding” is how Yarraman Park’s Harry Mitchell describes the famed international stud’s twelve yearlings heading to Easter, a unique opportunity to secure some of Australia’s most successful bloodlines.
“The cream” meanwhile is Shadwell’s racing manager Angus Gold description of the draft and it seems apt with each of the youngsters…
Artorius
Vinery Stud has an exceptional record as a proven source of Gr.1 winners and in the last three years have sold the winners of three of the biggest 2yo races in the country: Exhilarates (2yo Magic Millions Classic), Farnan (Gr.1 Golden Slipper Stakes), and Artorius (Gr.1 Blue Diamond Stakes). Their record from the Inglis Easter…