Pat Driscoll has been vigorous in the pursuit of improving trotting bloodlines in Australasia over the past decade. Through Haras des Trotteurs, Driscoll has made a selection of Europe’s best-bred stallions and most successful bloodlines to Australian and New Zealand breeders. The Haras de Trotteurs’ “French Revolution” has been headed by the likes Love You, Quaker…
By Peter Wharton When Aldebaran Zeus won the Breeders Crown 3YO Colts and Geldings’ Final at Melton in November he became the second winner of the prestigious Group 1 race bred and reared at Aldebaran Park stud, Nagambie. He joined Kyvalley Kyrie who took out the Breeders Crown 2YO Fillies’ Final five years earlier. Aldebaran…
The $100,000 Group One Bathurst Gold Bracelet on Friday night was taken out by Robert Watson’s homebred American Ideal filly Soho Rhapsody in the first leg of a Group One double on the night for trainer/driver Rickie Alchin. That Watson should breed to American Ideal is hardly surprising after the success he enjoyed with the…
The $50,000 Group Two consolation of the 2022 Bathurst Gold Tiara was won impressively by the Betting Line filly Windy Hill Tara which broke her maiden status with the win and she rated 1:58.0 for the 1730 metres. She beat Studleigh Starlite and another Betting Line filly in Aurora Joy. There are two Betting Line…
