Aidan O’Brien appears to believe the average mental age of racing fans is about five. Just who does he think he’s kidding, apart from his mouthpiece at the Racing Post, Deputy Ireland Editor David Jennings, who rates about three. Following Auguste Rodin’s impressive win in the $4 million Breeders’ Cup Turf, they fed the racing […]
Triumphs and Flops at the Lexington Sales
The 5 day selected yearling sales held in Lexington, Kentucky this week are traditionally a great guide and gauge of what is happening on the breeding scene. That’s a worry for the farms and clinics that stand or provide strands of stallions in Australia. Here is a brief summary of the hits and misses from […]
The Plumbing Depths of Oz Bred Stayers
Australia’s weakness in the staying ranks has long been known, but it is getting worse by the day, as yesterday’s results in the G1 Metropolitan showed. Only 4 of the 15 runners in the race were bred here. They finished 5th, 11th, 12th and 13th. Each of these Aussie breds was born of a European, […]
Was All Above Board with the $300 000 Sale of Group Winning Mare in Foal to Captain Treacherous? – Is She Pregnant or Isn’t She? – Was She or Wasn’t She? -The Great Carlas Pixel up the Duff to the Captain Mystery (First Published 4 September)
Two months ago the high class race race mare Carlas Pixel was sold on-line at the Gavelhouse auction for $300 grand. One of the big hooks for the buyer was that the mare was said to be in foal to Captain Treacherous. Just 2 months earlier a yearling colt by the Captain out of the […]
Well, Well, Well – Where Have All the Chinese NZ Standardbred Buyers Gone?
Isn’t it strange how all the Chinese buyers who six weeks ago were snapping up every mare or yearling colt that they could get their hands on, have suddenly disappeared. I wonder how many unborn sons of Terror To Love they took with them? Heaps is my mail. Studmaster Graham Court claims it’s bullshit, but […]
Les From Longford Rests His Case
Hambletonian 10 – Google it, harness racing started in America , not Australia. Even the greatest of our so called colonial bred sires in Globe Derby was infused with imported sire lines. Globe Derby was a sire of sires and then his son’s sired sires but the potency to extend was beginning to wane with […]
Making Australian Standardbred Breeding Great Again is as Simple as a Ban on Imported Semen, a Leg Over – It Ain’t Rocket Science Reggie
,,, there seemed to be almost as many against the Eureka concept as there were for it when it was first touted. The main beef was how a significant part of the funding came from a stallion levy. Some vocal breeders exploded. But the storm has subsided and the reasoning for the race and the […]
The People Who Sell Mares With Unregistered Unborn Foals in Their Wombs and Young Colts to China to Die
Remember where all the NZ mares and colts are being exported to? Mongolia. To become trek horses they say. Funny that. https://peterprofit.com/?s=china Here are the list of owners who have sold NZ horses in this month’s consignment to China. It’s time to name them. Things that stay in the shadows always remain dark and hidden. […]
Why Does New Zealand Keep Selling the Chinese Trotters to Abort and Kill?
The exodus of fertile NZ mares to China continues. After our pointed questions about the exports a few weeks back, this time the Chinese buyers have thrown a few colts in. I won’t tell you what they do with horse’s testicles in China. Take a guess. Notice that the male sales are all young. So […]
EXCLUSIVE: Attention NZ Racing Integrity Board Stewards – The Abortionists Are Back
The mail is that the Chinese buyers are currently scouting for horses in Canterbury. Mares they are looking for. These horses won’t be racing of course. We all known where they are going. So here is my message to the RIB. They are out there. So is their man. Keep your eyes open. Get to […]