Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
That’s what Kiwi trainer Cran Dalgety said about his $310 000 yearling buy Chicago Bear just after the hammer fell at the NZ Standardbred auction a few years ago. The full brother to Chicago Bull and Perfect Stride must prefer it missionary style, because team Dalgety put the bridle on and banged him on the […]
Black Caviar’s son I Am Caviar had his 12th start at the lowly Cranbourne meeting tonight, where he went around for a miserable winners prize of $22 000, the sort of money that neither of his parents would get out of bed in the morning for. The 4yo that would have attracted bids upward of […]
• The big picture. The latest confirmed global figures from multiple sources up to the end of 2021 for the 62 countries breeding Thoroughbreds reveal 84,213 foals were registered that year, a decrease of 32% from a peak of 123,568 in 2005. • North America’s foal crop, the largest numerically worldwide, has been declining for […]
Story by Will Jones, author of the seminal racing tome The Black Horse is Dying, and much appreciated and loved friend of and international correspondent for this site Coolmore Stud is, naturally, the biggest draw on the Irish Stallion Trail, a golden two day opportunity every January for the last ten years for studs around […]
Slipping effortlessly from Churchill to George Bernard Shaw, Byrne waxed lyrical that it’s not always going to be dark at 5 o’clock. Try telling that to the breeders who were at Goffs Sales last November and couldn’t even get a bid of E10,000 on a foal by Saxon Warrior who stood at a E35,000 fee. […]
Many in the racing industry are wondering how the Tasmanian based former Asian Racing Journal columnist Bren O’Brien has managed to fund his immediately prodigious start-up racing website the straight.com.au, and how he has obtained the funds to employ and pay a suite of staff that includes racing journalists, website designers, accountants, and admin workers. […]
RACING SYNDICATES AMONG BUSINESSMEN CEMENT FRIENDSHIPS AND SEAL DEALS That the rich and powerful approach the turf with cutthroat ambition is clear when Melbourne property developer Lloyd Williams confides that the only time he ever disagreed with his closest friend, Kerry Packer, was over a bunch of highly pedigreed hayburners. It was the late 1980s […]
In a major coup for their fast rising Cobbitty Farm breeding operation, Luke and Belinda McCarthy have in the past few days announced that their Western Sydney stud has secured the southern hemisphere rights to two of the hottest young sires in North America, the on track superstars Cannibal and Confederate, the latter last season’s […]
The average price per lot in Sydney at $31 570 was a vast improvement on the Gold Coast and Melbourne sales, and really lays down the gauntlet to their rival Nutrien, whose southern sales are still to come. The clearance rate for the sale was 68.87%, comparable with other sales here and across the ditch. […]
It was only a few years back that the leading stud Alabar paid a reputed $2 million to secure the southern hemisphere stallion rights to Ride High, the then boom pacer who had won just a single Group 1. The plan of course was to turn the super fast pacer into a super sire. It […]
