Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Mark Buckingham, the Victorian trainer with an outstanding positive swab to Levaimsole in the NSW jurisdiction, was fined a paltry $2500 for administering a steroid to a weanling in September or October of 2020. I wrote a story critical of the light penalty, but I missed something that an eagle eyed expert reader didn’t. The […]
For a Reason has won the NSW Sire of the Year award. Why? What has For a Reason actually sired that is any good? How did he win the best stallion in NSW award? What does it say about Yirribbee stud? What does it say about the rest of the stallions in NSW? What does […]
Summit Bloodstock is Jamie Durnberger-Smith and his business partner Jake Webster. They have come from the clouds in recent years to become the biggest harness racing owners by number of horses in Australia. It has been a remarkable rise from nowhere for a couple of lads in their early 30’s, that’s for sure. As often […]
There is a little known standardbred stallion named Huntsville, who only served one season in Australia before being inexplicably banished from these shores for reasons unknown, to this author at least. That breeding season was in 2018/2019, when Huntsville served 205 mares who dropped 133 of his live foals, each of whom have just turned […]
New Zealanders who leave for Australia raise the IQ of both countries Former NZ Prime Minister Robert Muldoon and my mate Bottles This is the colt that I wrote earlier this evening about in the story A Mixed Bakers Dozen – The Top-Priced 13 Lots at the Gold Coast APG Sale Dissected The one that […]
So how did yesterday’s APG sale numbers go? Good and bad. Did the $150 000 that APG and Albion Park splashed at a sales graduates only race make a huge difference to the numbers? Yes and no. The gross was substantially higher – almost double in fact at $1.96 million this year v $1.00 million […]
John Polson’s mare Washington Lass has produced two of the past three QBRED 2YO Triad winners, and the three foals she has produced have earned $380 000 between them with more in the locker to come, so you can’t blame him for wanting to hang on to her next foal too. Which only goes to […]
LOT 21 – Always B Miki x Eclusif (F) Mrs Vagg and Lindsay Vagg $67 000 Diane Reilly Mrs Reilly owns Priority Betting, the 2YO half-brother to this filly by Betting Line, and it might be worth putting in your black book when it makes its race track debut, for she must have a huge […]
It is APG sales day at the Gold Coast, and the birds are chirping. The hype horse of the sale is Lot 51, by Sweet Lou out of Muscle Beach. That is hardly a surprise, for the yearling filly is owned by Dean Baring, the marketing manager for APG and it’s number two man. Warning […]
