14 February 2024
WA-bred millionaire mare Quilista foaled her first winner when Bonita Queen spaced a smart maiden field by four lengths in the Irresistible Pools Hcp (1100m) at Hawkesbury on Tuesday. Bonita Queen was a $550,000 graduate of the 2022 Gold Coast Magic Millions and her...
13 February 2024
Sessions 3yo filly Cessation is the second TBWA Winner of the Week in a row for the Oakland Park stallion following Audio Boy at Bunbury on WA Breeders’ Classic Day. Cessation made a very impressive debut in a 1000m maiden down the straight at Pinjarra on Sunday for...
13 February 2024
Yarradale Stud Manager Davy Hanratty is confident this year’s consignment of 24 yearlings to the Perth Magic Millions is the best since he arrived at Gidgegannup in 2011. The Irish-born horseman has helped prep drafts that have topped turnover four times in the last...
11 February 2024
Golden Kathleen gave Leonardo Da Hinchi a winner with his first runner when she gave her rivals a towelling in the $80,000 Nixon Electrical Plate (1100m) at Bunbury on Saturday. The Gold Front Thoroughbreds stallion was unbeaten in late-season juvenile starts at...
9 February 2024
The Inglis February (Early) Digital Sale generated $442,250 in turnover for the Scenic Lodge Dispersal on Wednesday. Scenic Lodge catalogued 46 lots and general manager Jeremy Smith said the process all the way along had been seamless. “We’re absolutely rapt with the...
8 February 2024
Sessions sired a well-timed winning double at Belmont on Wednesday just two weeks out from the Perth Magic Millions Sale. Millstee landed the first-leg in the MacMahon Maiden (1200m) and Boab Boy was the second of five winners on a career-best day for apprentice Madi...
7 February 2024
Mogumber Park stallion Safeguard is gunning for a third WA 2YO sires’ premiership this season and that will give him a head-start leading into the Perth Magic Millions Yearling Sale this month. Safeguard (Exceed And Excel) claimed the 2YO title as a freshman in...
7 February 2024
Audio Boy went out a $3 favourite for the Wittens Irrigation Maiden (1690m) at Bunbury on Sunday but looked a longshot in running under Clint Johnston-Porter. Race-caller Darren McAullay summed up the situation when the Adam Durrant-trained galloper picked up...
7 February 2024
Darling View Thoroughbreds champion Playing God began ramping up his defence of the WA sires’ premiership when Alaskan won the Amelia Park Hcp (1800m) at Ascot on Saturday. Alaskan (3g Playing God – Lady Alaska by Reset) was coming off a 1400m maiden victory at...
7 February 2024
Magic Millions WA has published its Perth Yearling Sale Magazine in the lead-up to the Swan Valley Sale on February 22 and 23. Covering 124 pages, it also highlights the Magic Millions Raceday at Pinjarra on Saturday week, February 17 as well as featuring leading...
5 February 2024
The current Inglis February (Early) Digital Sale that opened for bidding on Friday is dominated by a quality selection of bloodstock that makes up the Scenic Lodge Unreserved Dispersal. The final countdown for bidding begins this Wednesday morning, February 7. Scenic...
4 February 2024
Perth agent John Chalmers led WA buyers at the NZB National Yearling Sale that finished on Friday with 9 lots totalling $760,000. Chalmers has been a regular buyer for Peters Investments principal Bob Peters over the years at Karaka and his two most expensive Book 1...