6 March 2023
Yarradale Stud has purchased black-type mare Lady Chant outright for $210,000 at the latest Magic Millions Online Sale. Lady Chant (War Chant) won last year’s Group 3 WA Oaks (2400m) and then embarked on an interstate campaign that included a Group 3 placing in the SA...
1 March 2023
Lindsay Park secured a remarkable 10th Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) with Little Brose at Sandown on Saturday. Trainers Ben and JD Hayes were upholding a family tradition when they prepared Little Brose (Per Incanto) for their first victory in Victoria’s premier 2yo...
1 March 2023
Scenic Lodge legend Blackfriars has topped the Inglis Digital February (Late) Sale after Gall Bloodstock purchased his Stakes-winning 4yo mare Constant Dreaming for $275,000. Constant Dreaming is from the last-crop by Blackfriars, a 12-time WA Sires Champion, and was...
28 February 2023
Capel trainer Lou Luciani pulled off a feature race double with Marocchino (Maschino) in the LR Detonator Stakes (1800m) at Ascot on Saturday and Hot Zed (Red Hot Choice) in the LR Pinjarra Classic (1300m) on Sunday. Marocchino has been a wonderful money-spinner for...
28 February 2023
Ascot trainer Trevor Andrews has decided to pull stumps on an extended autumn campaign for All The King’s Men. In the immediate wake of a strong win in the LR Lex Piper Stakes (1600m) on Saturday, Andrews was considering a start in the LR J C Roberts Stakes (1800m) on...
28 February 2023
Admiration Express scored a stunning victory in the LR Ascot 1000 Guineas (1600m) on Saturday and the four-length margin puts her firmly in the frame to make a clean-sweep of the autumn classics for fillies. The 3yo grey daughter of Westbury Park sire My Admiration...
28 February 2023
A winning double by Beautiful Baroque (Caravaggio) and Ace Command (Vert De Grece) completed a very successful week for Geisel Park at Pinjarra on Sunday. The Myalup stud’s 2017 Magic Millions graduate Rocky Path (Therock) won at Ascot on Wednesday and there was a...
27 February 2023
Last Wednesday’s Ascot winner American Songbook will make a stayer and trainer Stephen Miller knows time is on their side while the learning curve continues this year. American Songbook (Manhattan Rain) was racing for just the third time when he scouted wide on the...
25 February 2023
A filly by Darling View Thoroughbreds stallion Playing God topped the leaderboard as records continued to tumble at the Perth Magic Millions Yearling Sale on Friday. Ascot trainer Neville Parnham, in partnership with Santo Guagliardo (Ridgeport Holdings), paid...
24 February 2023
A well-bred filly by Blue Point (Ire) sold for $350,000 to highlight a record-breaking opening session of the Perth Magic Millions Yearling Sale on Thursday. Records tumbled across the Book 1 leaderboard in the Swan Valley with new benchmarks for turnover and average...
23 February 2023
Yarradale Stud stallion War Chant (USA) has 16 colts and fillies catalogued for the two-day Perth Magic Millions and his ongoing influence is also evident as the damsire of another 7 yearlings. War Chant is one of the great success stories of the WA breeding...
22 February 2023
The Scenic Lodge draft to this week’s Perth Magic Millions is the second biggest of any vendor and general manager Jeremy Smith reports there’s been more inspections than ever at the Swan Valley sale-grounds. “It’s been busy and with the right people,” Smith said...
