2 August 2024
Ridgeport Farm sire Rommel kicked off 2024-25 like he left off last season with a winning double on a Heavy 8 at Pinjarra on Thursday. Bold Hero was the first Rommel off the rank in the John Ward Maiden (1600m) and he was followed by Rommel mare Desert Nymph in the...
1 August 2024
Playing God has scooped the pool winning the 2023-24 WA General and 2YO Sires’ premierships to emulate legendary local stallions Haulpak and Scenic. The Darling View Thoroughbreds resident sired 63 individual winners of 107 races for record earnings of $7,935,892. ...
1 August 2024
Leading stallions Rommel and Ducimus will attract broodmare owners looking to breed city 2yo winners who train on when they parade at Ridgeport Farm this Sunday, 4 August. Ridgeport Farm opened its doors 12 months ago with foundation sire Rommel (Commands) and he’s...
29 July 2024
The first reported foal by Geisel Park sire Aysar has arrived at Gold Front Thoroughbreds. Aysar covered 89 mares in his first book at Geisel Park last year and the colt from Lady Sass (Unencumbered) was born on Sunday night. His dam doubled up at Ascot in February...
29 July 2024
Safe Satyr took the length of the straight to nail the Glenroy Chaff Hcp (1000m) at Belmont last Wednesday but take nothing away from the talented 2yo son of Safeguard. Stewards reported he veered outwards over the concluding stages and nearly threw away prizemoney...
25 July 2024
No Brainer is bred to be a black-type galloper and he’s shown black-type potential with an unbeaten start to his career at Bunbury and Belmont. Bred and sold by Yarradale Stud for $110,000 at the 2022 Perth Magic Millions, he won first-up in the south-west a fortnight...
25 July 2024
Geisel Park has purchased Playing God mare Feels Playful for $80,000 at the Inglis Digital July (Late) Sale that closed on Wednesday. A Listed winner of the 2023 Challenge Stakes (1500m) at Ascot, she was offered as a breeding proposition by her owners who banked...
23 July 2024
The first foals of the season are just around the corner and so is the start of the serving season with four new stallions covering their initial books in Western Australia. Regrettably, our industry has been abandoned by Perth’s mainstream print media since the...
22 July 2024
Extreme Love was a first-up maiden winner at Bunbury earlier this month and she was good enough to step straight into a Class 3 and win again with Willie Pike taking over at Northam on Thursday. Far from being overawed in the AFGRI Precision Hcp (1100m), she came out...
21 July 2024
Group 1 racehorse and sire War Chant (USA) has left a lasting legacy from his years at Three Chimneys Farm in Kentucky and Yarradale Stud in WA. War Chant (Danzig), who died aged 27 in April, is the damsire of over 500 individual winners worldwide and among the best...
21 July 2024
Former Roselee Park stallion Jimmy Choux (NZ) sired his 6th Stakes winner when Weeraechoux got the better of odds-on favourite Petrouchka in the LR Belmont Classic (2200m) on Saturday. Chris Parnham sent Weeraechoux past front-runner The Candy Kid (Sessions) into the...
20 July 2024
Neville Parnham has built an unrivalled record with Playing God and this week’s profile on Northam winner Champeze underlined his rapport with the breed. Another trainer with an excellent Playing God strike-rate is Mitch Pateman. He has prepared four individual...
