Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Story by our friend the great UK racing writer Will Jones, author of The Black Horse is Dying, Greed Corruption Exploitation Injustice We have paused The Black Horse Newsletters to complete the third book in The Black Horse Trilogy. BEHIND EVERY FORTUNE LIES A CRIME will be published in early 2026. Following the first two […]
Cyclone Jeter was a very smart race mare who won 9 from 13 after coming over from New Zealand to the Anton Golino barn, including a victory over subsequent Group 1 winners Maori Time and Sundons Courage. She wasn’t so good at stud though, not for her first three seasons anyway when she missed every […]
It appears that everyone’s favorite debt dodging multiple bankrupt and water thief in a drought Dean Baring (pictured) has run into yet another dry gully, and is being forced to liquidate the horse stock that he owns under his wife’s company name in order to stave off the hungry wolves from Magic Millions, stallion owners […]
Luck’s a fortune in the yearling buying game, as last nights Eureka result proved. There were 11 yearlings sold for $105 000 or more at the 2022 yearling sales. Eureka winner Bay Of Biscay was one of them, topping the Sydney sale at a price of $150 000. That investment has now multiplied many times, […]
Archie, Archie, Archie Love your work but I can’t believe a man of your undoubted wisdom would use the Eureka field to indicate anything other than, as you rightly point out, the concept has been a total failure to promote local stallions. Despite all the hype from HRA’s mouthpiece Adam Ant & co the Eureka […]
For almost two decades now the modern day stallion phenomenon Bettors Delight and Art Major have dominated the national sires lists, with one or the other winning the premiership every year. Nothing lasts forever. Bettors is turning 27 this year and Art Major 26, and with both grand producers fast getting old the day was […]
Respected harness racing participant Ben Settree’s concerns about the future of harness race breeding and indeed that of the industry itself are vividly illustrated by the results from last week’s APG Mixed Winter Sale. It was an abject disaster. Only 29 of the 126 lots offered sold. The overall clearance rate was just 23.02%. Even […]
I told you CEF (Cobbitty Equine Farm) would end up dealing direct with DCF (Diamond Creek Farms)…. Shame about Legendary Hanover, I would breed to him standing in NSW but his record and price point was never going to work for DCF at CEF. Way faster then Cannibal and not much dearer and way cheaper […]
The civil war must be over, Confederate and Cannibal are back on the Cobbitty Equine Farms website….. Diamond Creek owner Bowden owes Todd McCarthy, it was Todd’s going out like the hare on another Bowden horse that set up Confederates record, bit of brotherly love might have kicked in….. Or it’s a truce whilst they […]
It appears that all is not as it seems with the southern hemisphere rights to the US stallions Confederate and Cannibal. We have all been led to believe that the McCarthy owned Cobbitty Equine Farms who stand the stallions own the service rights down under, but that it seems is not correct. Summit Bloodstock and […]
