Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Hey mate Just thought I would share, Always B Miki and Art Major sired Kiwis are always eligible for Vicbred status on arrival to Australia with a late fee to HRV to sustain. This is because Alabar were the stud responsible for the sires at the time and still are, and both carry Vicbred status […]
Last night’s heats of the 3yo Vicbred Super Series at Kilmore shone a spotlight on everything that is wrong with Victorian harness racing. Here are the two major areas of concern. Unaffordability of the Series There were eight heats run, four for the males and four for the females. They carried total prizemoney of $10 […]
There are superbly bred blueblood thoroughbreds everywhere you look at Royal Ascot, but none have as fine a pedigree as the winner of the Kensington Palace Stakes for fillies Doha. This filly by Sea The Stars out of Treve would have been worth an astronomical sum at the yearling sales had her breeder the Emir […]
How do you compete at horse sale with blokes who have as much cash to splash as Yulong’s owner Yuesheng Zhang and his partner Zhijun Zhao? It’s near impossible, certainly for the average racehorse owner. Zhang and Zhao spent more than $11 million dollars at the Magic Millions National Broodmare sale yesterday, and picked up […]
The Richmond Puppy Auction is reborn next weekend, and with a brand new $150 ooo sales race series up for grabs by greyhounds sold on the day interest from buyers around Australia is sky high. Of the most interest is the litter of 5 on offer by super sire Fernando Bale out of the champion […]
We have been telling you about how black money is laundered through yearling sales for about a million years now. https://peterprofit.com/?s=money+launder It’s something that has been happening around the world, and should have been obvious to all. Sadly however the authorities seemed to miss it completely, and the breeders who were getting hugely over the […]
About a month ago we wrote a story about the huge amount of money that Harness Racing SA and the SA Breeders Owners Trainers and Reinsperson’s Association were wasting on so-called classic Kindergarted Series for 2YO’s, and after staring into our ever faithful crystal ball we declared that a non-sales entry from the Tonkin/Stewart stable […]
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 […]
