TBWA News
Brilliant Bunbury result for Winning Rupert
Ripper Rupert was a given a perfect rails-hugging ride by Chris Parnham to give trainer Luke Fernie a well-deserved victory in the Swan Draught Hcp (1100m) at Bunbury on Thursday. Fernie stands his sire Winning Rupert (Written Tycoon) at Geisel Park and prepares the...
Playhouse Patron firms for Perth Cup
Playhouse Patron left no room for excuses from the beaten division when he worked overtime in running to claim a second black-type victory in the LR ATA Stakes (2200m) on Wednesday. The hard-knocking 6yo gelding went into the Ascot feature race as a $31 longshot after...
Gingerbread Man Perfect in Hong Kong
Yarradale graduates Blood Saint and Cantilever doubled up at Geraldton’s postponed meeting on Monday and Yarradale resident Gingerbread Man made it a winning treble when his promising expat Perfectday scored a last-to-first victory at Happy Valley on Wednesday. Blood...
Perth Magic Millions Yearling Sale online
The cream of the Western Australian yearling crop has been assembled for the 2026 Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale and the quality packed catalogue is now online. The sale, comprising 358 quality lots, will be staged at the Magic Millions Swan Valley Complex on...
The Nun – TBWA Winner of the Week
The Nun looked a professional filly on debut at Ascot last Wednesday when all the pieces fell into place during a one-length victory in the Reliable Asset Maintenance Maiden (1000m). The Dawson Stud-bred graduate travelled beautifully in the box-seat some three...
Cape Falls double on Gold Rush Day
Cape Falls Thoroughbreds owner Brett Fogarty is on fire this season with his multiple winning homebreds Hot And High, Hoba West and Salty Miss. Unbeaten 3yo filly Hot And High (Too Darn Hot) completed a hat-trick in last month’s LR Sir Ernest Lee-Steere Classic...
Six of the best for Smooth Chino
Odds-on favourite Smooth Chino kept his unbeaten record intact while treating the LR Black Heart Bart Stakes (1200m) like a track gallop at Ascot on Saturday. Still untapped after six wins on the bounce for trainer Indianna Weinert, he settled into a relaxed rhythm...
Warhorse Bridging the years in Albany
Veteran sprinter Oxbridge knows every blade of grass around Albany’s Percy Spencer Racecourse and he led at every call to improve his career-card to 14 wins from 62 starts there on Friday. Oxbridge (9g City Place - Colleges by Elusive Quality) was initially...
All American winner All Heart
Final Call had every right to fold after working overtime in the Glenroy Chaff Maiden (1800m) at Ascot on Wednesday but the beaten division didn’t count on his will to win for jockey Joey Azzopard. A lightly-raced son of former Geisel Park sire All American, he sat...
Refemme No Angel – TBWA Winner of the Week
Refemme No Angel is bred to be good and he lived up to the family pedigree when getting out to 1400m for the first time in the Bisley Workwear Hcp at Belmont on Wednesday. The Wally Daly homebred was perfectly placed following Viresha (North Pacific) until the odds-on...
Reg readies for black-type breakthrough
Consistent sprinter Without Reg wins a race every prep and there’s every chance it could be a black-type breakthrough this campaign. Without Reg came close with a placing behind Watch Me Rock in the LR Grandstand Cup (1400m) at Ascot back in March and there will be...
Six winners in five days by Maschino
Alwyn Park resident Maschino refuses to have a breather on the back of a full book with more black-type on the horizon via Joker’s Grin, Machine Gun Gracie and unbeaten 3yo Smooth Chino. Maschino is also doing it day-to-day with a double on the Northerly Stakes...
