Winter Olympics history buffs will recongnise Chamonix as the site of the first Winter Olympics held in 1924 in France. On Saturday night at Albion Park, Chamonix the pacer was a good winner for trainer/driver Grant Dixon downing Gotta Go Milking and My Ultimate Victor in a career best rate of 1:53.8 over the 1660…
Captaintreacherous 3yo colt Captain Hammerhead secured a start in the $2 million Eureka in a fortnight’s time with a win in the $50,000 The Singo at Menangle on Saturday night. The win followed the colt’s win in the $100,000 Nutrien Classic at Bendigo eight nights earlier. Captain Hammerhead is out of the smart Art Major…
Auctioneers have often made statements about residual value when selling fillies at yearling sales. While some of those statements are little more than hyperbole the 2024 Nutrien Sydney Yearling Sale has a couple of fillies which really do have residual value but more importantly they have pedigrees which give them every chance of racetrack success.…
The effort of the Sweet Lou colt Dangerous with a fast-finishing second to Captain Hammerhead in the Alabar Bloodstock 3yo Nutrien Classic at Bendigo last Friday put a focus on the draft of Greg Mitchell’s GSM Racing in the 2024 Nutrien Sunshine Stars Yearling Sale. GSM Racing have five yearlings entered in the sale including…
Sponsor celebrates in style Glen Mortimer is a sponsor of Gloucester Park through Retravision and he celebrated his 60th birthday in style on Friday night with the win of the promising 3yo Rolling Fire. Trained by the State’s leading trainer of young horses Justin Prentice, Rolling Fire was driven by Gary Hall and it was…
Lux Aeterna is Latin for eternal light and the unbeaten Captaintreacherous filly is an early favourite for the $175,000 2yo Fillies Nutrien Equine Classic final at Bendigo on Friday night. Her Menangle based trainer/driver Rickie Alchin gave her a private trial on Friday after the 2yo fillies heat scheduled for Menangle last Tuesday was abandoned…
It is 1700 kilometres from Alberton in Queensland to Bendigo in Victoria but that wont deter Queensland trainer Shannon Price from making the trip with her smart young horses Sure Thing Captain and Force Full. Last Tuesday she made the 939 kilometre trip from her Queensland home to Menangle for the heats of the Nutrien…
The 2022 Nutrien Yearling Sale saw the first crop of the imported American stallion Volstead offered and he has made an impact as those yearlings commenced racing earlier this year. He is currently Australia’s leading First Season 2yo sire of trotters with his 11 starters this season already producing five individual winners. The fifth of…
At Bendigo on Wednesday a second heat of the 2yo Colts Nutrien Sales Classic for the pacers was run and it was won in impressive fashion by the Somebeachsomewhere colt Bay Of Biscay which remains unbeaten with wins at his only two starts. The first foal from the smart mare Nike Franco p,1:48.0 $913,870, Bay…
Friday 11th August harness racing fans will turn their attention to Bendigo in Victoria for the running of the finals of both 2yo and 3yo Nutrien Sales Classics. The Classics feature separate finals for both fillies and colts in both age categories. That same night will see the running of Nutrien Trotting Classics for both…
