Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
Everyone in racing knows Godolphin, the richest operation running around, owned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the sixth wealthiest person in the world with assets worth somewhere between 14 and 18 billion (thousand million) dollars. With that sort of cash in his vault the Sheikh is the last person on earth that you’d […]
A major scandal has erupted at the NZB Standardbred Yearling Sales in Christchurch involving a yearling, a leading breeder, a prominent South Island trainer, the biggest owner in New Zealand, and a mendacious dummy bid strategy to scheme him. The leading owner is Steve Stockman, the proprietor of Stonewall Stud (pictured sitting exactly where the […]
Buyer at sales of either equine racing breed should take firm notice of what O’Brien has to say, for he knows. Double check your shortlist buyers at Christchurch today. Make sure that your selections match the Irish genius’s criteria. Summing up his views on breeding, O’Brien says: “When you train horses and work with them […]
Have you ever seen a more magnificent looking animal than Justify in your life? I doubt that you ever could. In this interview with the Racing Post extracted below, Aidan O’Brien is discussing the great sires that Coolmore have had over the years. First he talks about the legends Danehill, Storm Cat, Galileo, and Desert […]
