Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
The New Zealand standardbred yearling sales kick off today at Karaka and it shapes to be a cracker, with a catalogue filled full of quality bred, well-related youngsters from beginning to end. What’s striking about it otherwise is that there are only 7 stallions out of 13 with entries in the sale that have sired […]
The Annebel Neasham trained 2yo colt Deputize that ran 2nd last in a Maiden on the kenso at Randwick yesterday was bought by Aquis Farm owner, president and top dog Justin Fung for $500 000 at last year’s Magic Millions yearling sale. On its pair of poor performances on the track to date it’s not […]
With post-sale purchases now included, the numbers from the APG Gold Coast sale a couple of weeks ago have changed markedly since I last looked and wrote about it. The clearance rate has risen from being in the low to middle 50’s up to a much more impressive 66.27%. Sadly however the average sale price […]
With a few rare exceptions yesterday’s APG Melbourne yearling sale was a massive fail, with a vast swathe of the draft going unwanted and unsold. The clearance rate – the percentage of lots sold – was just 65.49 percent, meaning that over 3 in 1o yearlings that entered the ring left it under new ownership, […]
Based on the evidence of last night’s Hunter Cup meeting there are only three sires whose offspring any smart, results driven buyer at today’s APG Melbourne sale would be loo0king at. They are: Captain Treacherous, the world champion sire who threw the first 4 placegetters in the Group 1 4yo Bonanza Bettors Delight, who sired […]
With all the hoopla and hype about Moody Racing’s $1.6 million purchase of the top lot this week from the Karaka yearling sales, we thought it an opportune time to look back at the top priced lots from the previous 5 years and see where they are now and where they’ve been. Sadly the news […]
