Bloodstock agents have welcomed the Hong Kong Jockey Club’s “recalibration” of its rating eligibility for tried horses purchased to race in the Asian jurisdiction, believing the lowering of the handicap will increase the pool of horses available and
Westbury Stud has launched a pair of initiatives aimed at attracting and retaining talented industry participants. The first includes the promotion of an existing employee, or Gamechangers as they will be known, who will embark on a 12 month programme tha
Champion mare Winx will be served by I Am Invincible during the upcoming breeding season. The owners of Winx – Peter and Patty Tighe, Richard Treweeke and Debbie Keptis – issued a statement on Monday afternoon to announce their decision to send their
Windsor Park shuttle stallion Charm Spirit sired his second winner in as many days when Intimidate landed the Barney Knudsen Dash 2YO Handicap (1000m) at Riccarton on Saturday, taking his total number of first-crop two-year-old winners in the southern hem
Trainer Nigel Tiley was impressed with Riodini’s victory in the NZB Insurance 2YO Handicap (1200m) at Pukekohe yesterday, earmarking him as a horse for the future. “He got to the line very well. I think he is a nice horse with a future, he’s really
In a coup for the King family’s Brighthill Farm, Group One performed son of Frankel, Eminent, will retire to their Tauwhare property for the forthcoming breeding season, where he will stand for a fee of $8,000+GST. Eminent becomes the first son of the a
“The revitalisation of this industry is underway,” said Racing Minister Winston Peters as the Racing Reform Bill passed its third and final reading in Parliament on Thursday. The Bill, which comes into force on July 1, opens the starting gate for the
(By John Jenkins) A stallion that is lucky to be still living let alone standing at stud, is starting to prove a hit as a sire of winter gallopers. Fabulous, who stands at Peter McKenzie’s Strathcarron Stud near Levin, was represented by the impressive
A colt by emerging New Zealand-bred stallion Dundeel fetched the top price of $A250,000 at yesterday’s first day of the Inglis’ Great Southern Weanling Sale in Melbourne. The Glastonbury Farms-consigned colt was one of three weanlings to make more tha
The sale record $850,000 Dundeel colt and a $330,000 son of the late champion sire Redoute’s Choice look set to head into training with Michael, Wayne and John Hawkes after the trio purchased the pair at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale yeste
Tony Pike, who will saddle the hat-trick seeking The Bostonian and Endless Drama in tomorrow’s Group 1 $A1.5million Stradbroke Handicap (1400m), has issued a damning criticism of the New Zealand racing industry and suggested he could contemplate a mov
The latest gavelhouse.com fortnightly New Zealand auction features a special consignment with six-time New Zealand breeder of the year winners Waikato Stud offering a draft of 27 unreserved weanlings for sale. The stud will be hosting three on-farm parade
Coolmore Australia sire Adelaide sired his first winner yesterday when Funstar scored an emphatic win in the All Too Hard at Vinery Maiden Handicap (1250m) at Canterbury. The Chris Waller-trained juvenile justified favouritism when scooting 3-1/4 lengths
Coolmore’s three-time Group 1 winner U.S. Navy Flag will shuttle to New Zealand’s Valachi Downs Stud at Matamata this year. The former Aidan O’Brien-trained entire, who was Europe’s champion two-year-old in 2017, won five of his 19 starts, includi
Exciting two-year-old Shoshone credited Waikato Stud stallion Sacred Falls with his first win as a sire when she led all the way for an impressive victory in today’s maiden two-year-old race at Ellerslie. The Ken and Bev Kelso-trained two-year-old ha
The result might not have been one the market predicted, but the outcome was certainly the one racing wanted as the colours of the late Paul Makin were carried to success by Winning Ways in an emotional renewal of the Group 1 Queensland Oaks (2200m) at Do
Three-time Group 2 winner Ocean Emperor has been retired from racing and is set to stand at stud. “He’s not going to race again and now I’m looking for a home for him to stand at stud,” trainer and part-owner Gary Hennessy said. Successful in nine
Multiple stakes winner and former Singapore Horse of the Year Debt Collector is set to head to Australia where he will join Jim Conlan’s Pinecliff barn. The former Cliff Brown-trained gelding finished fourth behind Hong Kong raider Southern Legend i
Highly Recommended’s talented son Waldorf completed a hat-trick of wins in Hong Kong on Wednesday night and in doing so, aided jockey Joao Moreira to four wins on the Happy Valley race card. “When we turned for home and I gave him two whacks I kne
Group 1 winner Miss Wilson was sold for $A900,000 at yesterday’s Magic Millions Broodmare Sale in Queensland. The daughter of Stratum, bred and owned by Hawke’s Bay couple Richard and Liz Wood, was offered by Greg and Jo Griffin’s New South Wales pr