MM Sale: Playing God the go-to sire in Perth

MM Sale: Playing God the go-to sire in Perth

Playing God doesn’t do things by halves and that was evident when he sired the LR Cyril Flower Stakes (1200m) quinella at Ascot on Saturday and the Mt Barker Cup (2000m) quinella on Sunday. Almighty Class (5g Playing God – My Classy Lady by Oratorio) became the...
Kimberley Rose – TBWA Winner of the Week

Kimberley Rose – TBWA Winner of the Week

Kimberley Rose stretched out to 2200m for the first time in a 16-start career on Saturday and she appreciated the extra distance to run right through the line in the VT Plumbing Group Hcp at Ascot. Brad Parnham settled her in the back-half of the field in the running...
Can-do attitude drives Kylie

Can-do attitude drives Kylie

There are not enough hours in the day for Kyles Delic especially in the countdown to the Perth Magic Millions Yearling Sale. Better known as Kylie throughout the racing and breeding industries, she has been WA Ambassador for The Thoroughbred Club & Thoroughbred...
MM Sale: Eye-catching winners by Bondi

MM Sale: Eye-catching winners by Bondi

Lynward Park sire Bondi enhanced interest in his consignment to Perth Magic Millions Yearling Sale when Back To Bondi and Ruthless Angel scored eye-catching victories at Ascot last week. Back To Bondi was facing the starter for just the second time in the Unite...
MM Sale: West is Best at Westbury

MM Sale: West is Best at Westbury

Last-start Ascot winner Our Paladin Al is benefiting from a summer spell in the south-west at Amelia Park ahead of a defining year for the lightly-raced 4yo son of Westbury Park sire A Lot (USA). Our Paladin Al signed off just his second racing campaign with a win...
MM Sale: HK record-breaker from Gold Front

MM Sale: HK record-breaker from Gold Front

Awesome Rock has a half-dozen yearlings entered for the Perth Magic Millions from Gold Front Thoroughbreds and they received an international update on Wednesday evening when his expat Awesome Fluke broke the track record for 1650m at Happy Valley. Awesome Fluke (6g...
MM Sale: Mistress on a roll for Yarradale

MM Sale: Mistress on a roll for Yarradale

Yarradale Stud-bred mare Mistress Of War has been in career-best form for trainer Karen Kersley since resuming from a spring spell with two placings and two wins culminating with a gutsy victory in the Morley Growers Market Hcp (1800m) at Ascot on Wednesday. Ridden...
My Harv – TBWA Winner of the Week

My Harv – TBWA Winner of the Week

Rommel mare My Harv presaged a winning weekend for Mogumber Park with a convincing victory in the Drummond Golf Hcp (1600m) at Ascot last Wednesday. Mogumber Park followed up with a Rommel double on Saturday with its graduates Maria Lucia and Battle Commander who were...
Sweet result in WA Breeders’ Classic

Sweet result in WA Breeders’ Classic

Playin’it Sweet has defeated Talkanco for the second time this season at black-type level in the LR WA Breeders’ Classic (1200m) at Bunbury. The Adam Durrant-trained daughter of Playing God held off the 2025 Champion WA 2yo Filly to reprise the LR Burgess...
Rommel Commander controls Ascot Mile

Rommel Commander controls Ascot Mile

Ridgeport Farm sire Rommel (Commands) crowned a season-best treble when Battle Commander led all the way for Lisa Staples in the $100,000 Ascot Mile (1600m) on Saturday. Earlier in the day, Rommel’s 3yo gelding Twisted Steel appreciated the drop back from summer...
Sheehy and Oxbridge best of mates

Sheehy and Oxbridge best of mates

Veteran front-runner Oxbridge carried the grandstand to win again at Albany on Thursday and trainer Stephen Sheehy claimed “you wouldn’t know he went around” on Friday. The rising 10 year-old was bred and sold by Yarradale Stud for $45,000 at the 2018 Perth...
Ascot double for Ross Price and Dan Morton

Ascot double for Ross Price and Dan Morton

Local trainer Dan Morton has completed a winning double at Ascot this week with the Ross Price-bred stablemates Bohemian Diamond (Maschino) and Girls Day Out (Long Leaf). Bohemian Diamond (5m Maschino – Elsie’s Rhapsody by State City) claimed the first-leg after...