A highlight of any yearling sale is seeing the first crop of a first season sire go under the auctioneer’s hammer and 2024 will be no exception when the first yearlings by Tall Dark Stranger are offered in Australia and New Zealand. The USTA 2yo and 3yo Pacing Colt of the Year in 2019 and…
Sunday’s Harness Grand Prix meeting at Addington Raceway in Christchurch saw the running of eight Group One races including the $110,000 Ace Of Clubs for 2yo Colts & Geldings. It was won by the Mark and Nathan Purdon trained and Mark Purdon driven Bettors Delight colt We Walk By Faith which his stablemate downed Major…
When Captaintreacherous 5yo Captain Crusader won in 1:49.6 at The Meadowlands on November 4th he gave his dam The Arch Nemesis a third sub 1:50 performer which is a new record for an Australian broodmare. The Arch Nemesis is also the dam of this season’s superstar Captaintreacherous 2yo filly Lux Aeterna p,2,1:49.9 $317,823 and Crunch…
The 2024 Nutrien Yearling Sales in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne catalogues were available on-line last Friday and feature race days at Menangle and Maryborough yesterday proved to be a celebration of the on-line catalogue launch. No fewer than two of yesterday’s Group One winners have half or full relatives in the catalogue while another two…
Last week’s Lexington Sales saw the first yearlings by former USTA 2yo Colt Pacer of the Year Tall Dark Stranger offered for sale. There were 60 lots on offer and they brought a total of $5,549,000 with three of his lots selling for $300,000 or more. He had more than 30 lots sell for $50,000…
By Peter Wharton The huge demand for the first crop of world champion three-year-old Papi Rob Hanover at the opening session of the Lexington Selected Yearling Sale was grist for the mill for prominent Newcastle studmaster-breeder Darren Reay. Reay’s Medowie Lodge is offering a filly by the 1:47.2, $927,000-winning son of the great Somebeachsomewhere out…
Heats for the 2023 Victoria Derby are set down to be run at Melton on Saturday night with the Group One final a week later. Twelve months ago and fans were salivating at the prospect of star Queensland colt Leap To Fame clashing with the Victorian duo of Catch A Wave and Captain Ravishing. Captain…
There are nine yearlings by the first season sire Bettors Wish being offered across the 2024 Nutrien Yearling Sales. Nothing surprising in that with Bettors Wish being a son of the supersire Bettors Delight and a great racehorse himself taking a record of 1:47.6 as a 4yo after recording 1:47.8 as a 3yo. Bettors Wish…
There is always a touch of sadness and loss when a champion of the track retires from racing. The Muscle Hill mare Dance Craze tr,1:55.6 won 24 of her 50 starts including three victories at Group One level and stakes of $551,780 and her racetrack brilliance was recognized with Australian Aged Trotting Mare of the…
Encipher will go down in history as the inaugural winner of the Eureka for breeder/owner Tyson Linke and slot holder Summit Bloodstock. The 2024 Nutrien Sydney Yearling Sale provides an opportunity to buy a relative of Encipher per medium of a colt by Always B Miki from the Bettors Delight mare Real Intentions which is…
