TBWA News
Another Boom Sale for Team Williams
Grant and Alana Williams led WA buyers at the Inglis Melbourne Premier Sale this week splashing out $520,000 on three yearlings at Oaklands Junction. Overall, the WA spend reached $1.48 million for 21 yearlings topped by Team Williams and agent Suman Hedge for the...
Bustling – TBWA Winner of the Week
Blue Rocket was named TBWA Winner Of The Week last Tuesday and the Oakland Park homebred filly also went nationwide as the ANZ Bloodstock Winner Of The Week. Oakland Park has gone back-to-back with Bustling this week after he bolted in when racing first-up at Ascot on...
WA mare foals Hong Kong Superstar
Group 1-winning WA owner Chris Wells has only bred a few horses over the years but he’s come up with another elite winner after booking Toronado (Ire) to his Northam winner Paris Texas (Hinchinbrook). That mating was made in heaven because it produced Hong Kong’s...
Fifth Stakes winner by Awesome Rock
Gold Front Thoroughbreds stallion Awesome Rock was represented by his fifth Stakes winner when Own The Queen overcame a wide draw in the LR Ascot 1000 Guineas (1800m) on Saturday. Own The Queen was forced to work overtime around the top corner before finding the fence...
Group I winners a Dundeel for Delroy
Trevor Delroy has supported Dundeel (NZ) from his early days at Arrowfield Stud and that commitment paid off again when the yearling colt from Naivasha (Lot 294) made $250,000 at the Perth Magic Millions last Friday. Delroy has been based at Wyadup Valley Farm in WA’s...
Sheesh makes his mark for Gingerbread Man
Sheesh! The Gingerbread Man stayer put an exclamation mark on Yarradale Stud’s superb results at the Perth Magic Millions with a front-running victory in Singapore on Saturday. Gingerbread Man (Shamardal) had made his name there as the Champion 2YO winning the Magic...
Blue Rocket – TBWA Winner of the Week
Oakland Park homebred Blue Rocket ran her rivals ragged to break Blue Point’s southern-hemisphere duck at Ascot on Saturday. Blue Point (Shamardal) had 17 individual first-crop starters compete in 29 races prior to the Perth newcomer registering his first win in...
Ridgeport filly set for G1 Thousand Guineas
Santo Guagliardo reached a Group 1 high in Perth when Bustler won the Railway Stakes (1600m) in November and he’s looking forward to Melbourne’s 3yo spring classics with his Group 1 filly Kuroyanagi. Trainers Will Clarken & Niki O'Shea will spell Kuroyanagi...
Swan Valley spotlight shifts to Ascot
Perth Magic Millions vendors were back in the spotlight at Ascot on Saturday following a record-breaking week for the local industry in the Swan Valley. Forest View Farm owners Ben & Jo Duncan were straight out of the blocks in the opening race with Filthy...
Turnover bursts through $20 million in Perth
Turnover at Perth’s Magic Millions Yearling Sale burst through $20 million for the first time during a ground-breaking session at the Swan Valley on Friday. “It’s been a sensational week. Record heat, a record sale and a record high price,” Magic Millions WA manager...
Bright future for Bleecker Street
Impressive Racing’s new racing model is taking shape for Darren McAuliffe and saddling Ascot winner Bleecker Street was a timely result leading into the Perth Magic Millions Sale. Aided by a rails run, Bleecker Street delivered a city first for an Impressive Racing...
Playing God dominates Day 1 in Swan Valley
The Perth Magic Millions Yearling Sale leaderboard underlined the gulf between Playing God and rest of Western Australia’s stallion ranks on Thursday. Playing God smashed the record for a yearling sold in Perth when Melbourne bloodstock agent Sheamus Mills paid...
