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Playing God quinella in The Joey

Playing God quinella in The Joey

Baby Paris outclassed a strong field of older campaigners while leading home a quinella for Darling View Thoroughbreds sire Playing God in the $200,000 The Joey (1200m) at Ascot. The Colin Webster-trained 3yo filly pinched a winning break in the straight and had...

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Super filly wins G2 Karrakatta Plate

Super filly wins G2 Karrakatta Plate

Super Smink continued the domination of fillies in Perth’s juvenile events this season with a title-winning victory in Saturday’s G2 Karrakatta Plate (1200m) at Ascot. The Forest View Farm-bred daughter of Super One accelerated from the back of the field to defeat...

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Rommel relocates to Ridgeport Farm

Rommel relocates to Ridgeport Farm

Rommel will transfer from Mogumber Park in Bullsbrook to Ridgeport Farm in Waroona for the 2023 breeding season. The 11-year-old son of Commands was a Group 2 winner of the 2014 WA Guineas (1600m) and has sired two Stakes winners in his first three crops - Pixie Chix...

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Overdue but Okay To Pay at Cranbourne

Overdue but Okay To Pay at Cranbourne

Through no fault of her own, Gingerbread Man mare Okay To Pay had been on a 10-run losing streak before scoring a head-bobbing victory in the Freeway Ford Hcp (1000m) on Friday evening at Cranbourne The Phillip Stokes-trained sprinter landed in front and kept the...

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Danube River – TBWA Winner of the Week

Danube River – TBWA Winner of the Week

Danube River doesn’t look like reaching her high-water mark anytime soon given the ease of her victory in the Dr Emma Vidler Hcp (1190m) on Thursday. Starting an odds-on favourite at Narrogin, the Thorn Dancer (NZ) filly unleashed a winning sprint when let loose by...

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Bell tolls in G2 Karrakatta Plate

Bell tolls in G2 Karrakatta Plate

It’s a tough task for last-start winners to come off a seven-day break and win the G2 Karrakatta Plate (1200m) but it’s not beyond Snippetson filly Shell Bell. The last horse to double-up on a quick turnaround was Diffraction (Spectrum) in 2003.  He was the middle-leg...

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Sneaky Fox flying for Yarradale Stud

Sneaky Fox flying for Yarradale Stud

Sneaky Fox has taken a clear lead for Great Southern Horse of the Year on the back of another tough victory at Albany on Easter Sunday. The Gingerbread Man gelding took the field up to runaway leader Morgs Freeman (Playing God) before registering his fifth win of the...

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Awesome week for Gold Front

Awesome week for Gold Front

Gold Front Thoroughbreds claimed its first classic success during a week to remember when Awesome John won the G2 WATC Derby (2400m) at Ascot on Saturday. Awesome John carries the Gold Front GFB brand and he had been placed in the G2 Tulloch Stakes (2000m) at Rosehill...

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Universal Ruler’s extraordinary Easter

Universal Ruler’s extraordinary Easter

Universal Ruler has taken the lead among WA stallions on the 3yo winners (14) and wins (25) tables following an extraordinary Easter. The Scenic Lodge sire now heads both categories from Playing God (12 - 22), Demerit (12 - 17) and Oratorio (12 - 17). Exporose (Photo...

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Playing with Millions in The Quokka

Playing with Millions in The Quokka

Darling View Thoroughbreds stallion Playing God stretched his lead at the top of the WA sires’ premiership to more than $1 million over Easter with Ex Sport Man and Cobbanco leading the way at Ascot. Playing God ($3,701,589) has built a healthy margin over Trade Fair...

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Westspeed Platinum signals Snowdome

Westspeed Platinum signals Snowdome

Quality colt Snowdome is set for another profitable preparation after scoring second-up in the Quayclean Hcp (1000m) at Ascot on Easter Saturday. The Rommel 3yo had won the G3 WA Sires Produce Stakes (1400m) and Perth 3YO Classic (1000m) last year for a partnership...

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Juan Won One – TBWA Winner of the Week

Juan Won One – TBWA Winner of the Week

Colin Webster reached the summit in a 50-year training career when Trix Of The Trade claimed the Group 1 Railway Stakes (1600m) earlier this season and those same yellow and brown silks were back in the winning enclosure at Ascot on Wednesday. His Oratorio 3yo Juan...

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