TBWA News
Lambert short-listed for Stud & Stable Awards
Darling View Thoroughbreds team member Chris Lambert won the Leadership Award at the 2023-24 TBWA Awards and now she has been short-listed for the Australia-wide Leadership Award at the 2025 Stud And Stable Staff Awards. Leadership Award (Stud or Stable) Ashish Kumar...
Hat-trick beckons High Heels
Sixinch Heels is on a hat-trick this prep and she’s also on the way to higher grades for her Forest View Farm owner-breeders Ben and Jo Duncan. The Nicconi filly was a TBWA Winner of the Week first-up earlier this month in a Pinjarra 3yo maiden for trainer Simon...
Keep Ita Mystery – TBWA Winner of the Week
Keep Ita Mystery has benefited from swift sectionals set by Sinful Living to blouse out his rivals in the MCA Hcp (1000m) at Ascot. Jockey Chris Parnham settled the son of War Chant (USA) worse than midfield before giving the leading division six lengths and a beating...
Rope Them In reels in Bluff Knoll
Rope Them In took over as the chief earner for Champion WA Sire Playing God this season when he split runners in the straight for jockey ‘Shooter’ McGruddy to land the Bluff Knoll (1099m) at Albany. Trained by managing part-owner Steve Wolfe, he banked first...
Oakland Park sets Sail for WA Derby
Sail Session was tagged a G2 WA Derby prospect after winning an Ascot maiden in January and now he’s heading in the right direction after claiming the Kitt Logistics Hcp (1500m) on Saturday. The Oakland Park homebred missed an intended start in the LR Lex Piper Stakes...
Awesome Ascot double for Our Rocky Bay
Our Rocky Bay put his game-day face through a bridle twice this week and the quick turnaround didn’t dim his hopes for back-to-back wins at Ascot. The 4yo son of Awesome Rock ran right through the line in the Belhus Racing Hcp (1400m) last Sunday and was good enough...
Main Act takes centre-stage at Ascot
Fluro Neuro completed a hat-trick for Gingerbread Man on Bunbury Cup Day before the Yarradale Stud resident followed up with Main Act opening his account at Ascot on Wednesday. Main Act (Photo / Western Racepix) was racing first-up since an initial campaign late last...
Sixinch Heels – TBWA Winner of the Week
Sixinch Heels didn’t need all the favours to win first-up at Pinjarra on Thursday but she made the most of them anyway when strolling home by four lengths in the Western Racepix Maiden (1200m). The Simon Miller-trained filly had weighed in after all three starts...
Dawson Stud quinella on Bunbury Cup Day
Graham Daws tapped into a precocious family when he purchased Domesday mare More Spark and it paid off again when Fiery Spark scored first-up in a Bunbury nursery on Saturday Fiery Spark (Ole Kirk) is the latest Dawson Stud-bred winner from More Spark with Running By...
Bunbury breakthrough for Triple Missile
Triple Missile broke his duck in black-type ranks with a rewarding victory for Rapid Equine owner-breeder Neil Irvine in the $150,000 Listed Bunbury Stakes (1400m) on Saturday. It was also a Stakes first for trainer Donna Riordan since the widely-travelled sprinter...
Sky’s the limit for Kay Tee Why
Leading breeder Tony Patrizi launched the Marjorie Charleson Classic meeting a winner with Kay Tee Why (Nicconi) at Ascot last Saturday and then doubled up with Masterly (Universal Ruler) and Jaz Session (Sessions) at Belmont on Wednesday. Patrizi offered Kay Tee Why...
Pearce Racing going Platinum in Perth
Pearce Racing’s talented mare Platinum Shot returns to town next week after her latest win in Albany last Friday. The Yarradale Stud-bred graduate has her Great Southern rivals covered, nevertheless, it’s been a hard row to hoe in city ranks since her 2yo days when...
