TBWA News
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...
All Americans winning on Home Front
All American continues to hold the fort at Geisel Park while the news cycle has been centred on the arrival of new stallion Aysar and its second-season sire Manhattan Rain. His recent 3yo provincial winners Mack Mack and Work Home Front are both on track to make the...
Dude delivers for Oakland Park
Oakland Park Stud owners Neville and Susan Duncan are no strangers to success in the Eastern States and their first foray as vendors to the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale generated another ground-breaking result with a Blue Point (Ire) colt that made $600,000. Catalogued...
Sweet Easter Sale for Bitter Twist
Bitter Twist was an astute investment for Boyanup breeders Wayne & Jane Beynon five years ago and they received another dividend when the mare’s yearling filly by So You Think (NZ) made $300,000 through Sledmere Stud (as agent) at the Inglis Australian Easter Sale...
Best of health for Snippetson at Sha Tin
Scenic Lodge graduate Easy Snip gave Hong Kong trainer Benno Yung his 300th winner with a narrow victory in the Kam Tin River Hcp (1200m) at Sha Tin on Sunday. Yung, 64, is in his tenth season with a license after prior stints as assistant-trainer to Tony Millard and...
Group 3 double for Amelia Park Jewels
Amelia Park claimed a second Group 3 in a week when its star 3yo filly Amelia’s Jewel was a consummate winner of the Roma Cup (1100m) at Ascot. Racing first-up since a triumphant G1 Northerly Stakes (1800m) victory in December, the daughter of Champion European sire...
Universal Flair – TBWA Winner of the Week
Ted Martinovich knows how to get the best out of his team even when one of them takes more coaxing than the others. From the outset this time last year, his precocious filly Universal Flair raced fiercely before fading to midfield finishes behind Amelia’s Jewel in the...
Another Chino a proper stayer by Maschino
Maschino is a difficult stallion to categorize apart from an amazing ability to turn one in four of his winners into black-type performers. The Alwyn Park resident can sire out-and-out sprinters like Fabergino (12 wins to 1100m) and Wilchino (9 wins to 1200m) or...
Rapid Equine slots in Red Can Man
Great Southern trainer Steve Wolfe has been walking on air since his star sprinter Red Can Man was locked in for the $4 million The Quokka (1200m) at Ascot on April 15. The Gingerbread Man gelding is a confirmed starter after Rapid Equine owner Neil Irvine used his...
WA yearlings entered for Inglis Online Sale
WA studs have entered 16 yearlings for the Inglis April Online Sale (Early) that’s open for bidding from tomorrow, Friday (March 31) until next Wednesday (April 5). Northern corridor nurseries Scenic Lodge (Muchea), Mogumber Park (Bullsbrook) and Gold Front...
Second Grandstand finish for Playing God
Playing Marika commenced her career with a debut win at Northam in October 2018 and it took 53 starts before she scored another first-up victory in the LR Grandstand Cup (1400m) at Ascot on Saturday. A first-crop daughter of Playing God, she is the 12th individual...
Miller’s Girl faultless for Karrakatta
Scenic Lodge stallion Universal Ruler and trainer Simon Miller came up a half-length short with Lady Cosmology in the 2018 Karrakatta Plate but they can redress that result with Wiley Girl in Perth’s premier juvenile event on April 15. Wiley Girl (Photo / Western...
