24 March 2024
Dawson Stud-bred graduate Influencing is progressing at a rapid rate for Pearce Racing and he ticked another box when completing four wins in a row at Ascot on Saturday. Influencing opened his account in a Pinjarra maiden on February 25 before winning midweek races at...
21 March 2024
Lynward Park Stud completed a running double with Bondi’s Future and Simply Thinkin’ at Belmont on Wednesday and the Adam Durrant-trained 3yo stablemates won’t be long graduating from the midweeks. Bondi’s Future was headed in the straight but wouldn’t lie...
20 March 2024
WA buyers have purchased 27 yearlings at the Adelaide Magic Millions Yearling Sale this week for an overall spend of $1,021,500. Trainer Lloyd Kennewell broke the local record for a filly on Monday when he bid $400,000 for a daughter of I Am Invincible on behalf of...
20 March 2024
Darling View Thoroughbreds director Clive Atwell would have been well pleased when Geisel Park announced Winning Rupert had been signed to stand in Western Australia. Atwell is based at Mundijong and initially supported Winning Rupert in 2018 when he was covering a...
19 March 2024
Darling View Thoroughbreds Champion Playing God sired his 17th individual black-type winner when Lord Vampi scored a commanding victory in the Listed J C Roberts Stakes (1800m) at Ascot on Saturday. After diffusing an outside gate, he let down stylishly for jockey...
18 March 2024
First-starter Just Saint James had won a Lark Hill trial untouched last month after sitting three-wide without cover but he was easy to back at $7 in the Peel Bus Hire Maiden (1000m) at Pinjarra on Thursday. Drawing an inside gate down the straight wasn’t ideal and...
18 March 2024
Gingerbread Man gelding Ima Single Man has broken a runs of outs in Hong Kong with an adventurous all-the-way victory in the Heung Yee Kuk Cup (1200m) at Sha Tin. Saturday’s win was his first since January 2023 and it came about after trainer Tony Cruz decided to make...
15 March 2024
Kiwi trainer Terri Rae has a consistent team stabled at Ashburton with winners like Manhattan Rain’s progressive filly Kindling Spark. Rae has targeted black-type for Kindling Spark and she will be on a hat-trick in the Listed NZB Insurance Stakes (1600m) at Riccarton...
15 March 2024
Alwyn Park Stud’s Ngyrie Gonzalez is the sole Western Australian Finalist for the this year’s Stud And Stable Staff Awards. A total of eight awards will be handed out at the Awards ceremony which will take place on the Gold Coast on May 29. The two finalists for each...
15 March 2024
A simple blood test to help predict the injury risk of racehorses is among the study projects made possible by the inaugural Racing WA Research Fund grants. Racing WA Head of Animal Welfare Dr Anna Smet announced two projects had secured funding: A study into WA...
14 March 2024
Trionfante needed every metre of the Belmont straight to enter the record books as the first local winner by Winning Rupert since it was announced he was transferring from Queensland to WA. Winning Rupert (Written Tycoon) will stand at Geisel Park Stud in association...
12 March 2024
Rejuvenated Snippetson sprinter Gemma’s Son brought up a feature weekend double for Scenic Lodge in the $350,000 Bluff Knoll (1099m) in Albany on Sunday. Gemma’s Son settled behind speed merchant Acromantula (Written Tycoon) with jockey Shaun McGruddy set...