After 13 years shuttling between hemispheres, Danehill Dancer (Ire) remained in Ireland in 2010 but his line looks certain to proper through Choisir and Choisir's globetrotting son Starspangledbanner. Ambers Waltz has not yet added to Danehill Dancer's stakes tally, in fact she has been win...
Jockey Hugh Bowman says his mount Metal Bender and the Gai Waterhouse-trained Theseo are standout runners in the Chelmsford Stakes. Hugh Bowman expects his mount Metal Bender and middle distance star Theseo to justify their positions at the top of Chelmsford Stakes betting by dominating the w...
THE first mare to be offered at public auction in foal to six-time Group 1 winning champion Sea The Stars will be catalogued for the Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale. The mare, Karmifira, won a 1m1f Listed race at three, and was second to Valentine Waltz in the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches...
GESTÜT Wittekindhof's son of Galileo out of champion mare Elle Danzig – dam of this season's Preis der Diana runner-up and Group 3 winner Elle Shadow – looked a highlight of Friday's opening session to the BBAG yearling sale on paper, and he proved to be one in the ring...
The West Australian is offering an exciting new service for followers of the WA thoroughbred breeding industry. You can now read the latest news each day at The West Australian’s online service in the racing section of the webpage thewest.com.au — with a complete rou...
The Thoroughbred Breeders of the Hunter Valley have welcomed the announcement by Minister Frank Sartor that the NSW Government has appointed Hunter Thoroughbred Breeders Association President Wayne Bedggood to the Air Quality Monitoring Network Advisory Committee. Bedggood is one of thirt...
John Francome recalls the day he came to grief on Golden Rapper in the Grand National 34 years ago. ‘The first thing to hit the ground was the horse’s nose, followed a second later by my nose and I woke up in Walton hospital,’ said the seven-times champion jump jockey. It...
Harbinger, a record breaking winner of the Group One King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes before suffering a subsequent breakdown in trackwork, has been sold to take up stud duties in Japan next year. John Warren, director of Highclere Thoroughbred Racing, who handled the sale, said ...