Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
US stud Darby Dan Farms has introduced an initiative that may prove hugely attractive to Australian breeders, particularly smaller broodmare owners at the middle to lower end of the spectrum. The stud – that stands 12 stallions at service fees between $2500 and $15 000 – is offering its client what it calls a Breeder […]
Lot 62 at this week’s NZ National Yearling sale in Auckland on the weekend is a beautifully bred colt by champion sire Bettors Delight out of the dual Group 3 winning mare Spellbound, a daughter of Art Major. He’s a cracking looking type too the colt, tall and rangy yet well structured and strong, with […]
You may remember us writing extensively at the back end of last year about the Albany Racing Club’s’ financial woes and its corrupt CEO. Well the CEO is now gone, but the club’s financial problems remain. So much so that on Wednesday the control body Racing and Wagering Western Australia (RWWA) announced that it has […]
Yesterday’s APG standardbred yearling sale at Ipswich proved yet another disaster for the struggling auction house, with sales revenue and sustaining fees from the sale not even covering half of the promised future prizemoney for the race series for horses sold at the sale. Only 30 of the very disappointing 38 lots put up for […]
First year stallion King of Swing was one of the lone shining stars of the APG Melbourne sale, with his half-sister to star filly Just Hope topping the sale by selling for $82 500, a price well in excess of most market expectations and an outstanding return on his $8 800 service fee. While that […]
The Australian Pacing Gold (APG) yearling sale in Melbourne on the weekend can be described as a disappointing, if you want to be kind. Very disappointing indeed. How many people even knew it was on? We have spoken to a number of buyers at previous sales who say that they were never contacted by APG […]
Racehorse registrations Australia Ten years ago there were 11 460 thoroughbred foals registered across Australia. Today there are 10 644 That’s a 7.1 decrease across the nation in just a decade. The decline would been much more pronounced had Victoria not increased its breeding numbers by 3.8%. Here are the reductions and increases in the […]
Not sure whether race day coitus is covered in the rules as a “raceday treatment” it’s certainly not spelled out as such, but it does effect physiology but not as a “blood boost” during the post coital period. It’s not post coital elation, more post coital relaxation Ejaculation during intercourse in males causes a drop […]
Thestraight.com.au reports today that a 2.5% share in the superstar US racehorse turned stallion Flightline has sold for A$3.8 million, placing the value of the unbeaten galloper at A$15o million. At that price he is the bargain of the century. Flightline stands at a fee of $A225 000 in his second season and will serve […]
There were 45 harness races run in 5 cities around Australia on Saturday night. Not a single one of them was won by a horse sired by a colonial bred stallion. Not one. All those millions thrown at breeders bonuses, races and incentives, and this is what we’ve got. An antipodean outpost for American semen […]
