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AS THE 32nd Gold Coast Magic Millions yearling sale approaches Clint Donovan says he is as “happy as a kid in a lolly shop at Christmas.” The bloodstock consultant and auctioneer can’t wait to start selling the wonderful array of yearlings entered for the sale in…
DARREN Gauci first encountered horses when his apprentice brother Mick asked him to help out at the stables of trainer Don Shannon after school. That led to the soccer mad teenager being bitten by the racing bug and enjoying a wonderful career as one of Australia’s leading jockeys. Now at 50, he’s still riding winners…
IT’S a long way from selling racing papers outside Harold Park to becoming a significant shareholder in a leading Hunter Valley Stud and a major investor in bloodstock. But that has been the trajectory of Matthew Sandblom, who is reinvesting some of the money he made in business to further his love of thoroughbreds through…