Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Always B Miki fans who are smarting about the story we wrote the other day putting the knock on him as a sire were quick to fire back at us after his US filly Strong Poison won the $80 000 third round of Kentucky Championship series harness racing division for 2-year-old pacing fillies at […]
Today at Menangle we saw the inaugural running of the heats of the Nutrien sale race series. All of the now 2YO’s that competed in the heats were sold at the very first Nutrien standardbred yearling sale ever held in this country, which was in Melbourne last year. The juveniles sold at that sale are […]
Playing pool with Snoop Doggy Dog in the Kuranda Pub, and acing the ball straight in the hole A $2 million dollar sale the Chairman swore to the Federal Court the APG Mixed Sale was. Rubbish I said, it won’t gross even half a million. Who was right do you reckon? Who was the better […]
Hi Archie, Just a “cold spoon” applicator for Lazarus. Attached (pictured at the top) is a list of all the stallions whose progeny are eligible to race in the NJSS in 2022. Virtually no opposition is there? So in the eight $30,000 NJSS divisions (4 colts, 4 fillies) thus far Lazarus has sired every starter […]
Archie I hate to tell you this, but your average earnings per runner strategy re sires is flawed. Not every US state has the same prizemoney in bread and butter races or sires/state based incentive programs. The average is dependent on the state the stallions stood in, and if the mares they served have dual […]
…. mushroom or pepper sauce is what you put on a steak, which is preferably cooked medium rare. Your new trotting stallion’s name is On A Streak. Which judging by your promo material you are clearly not. Never mind. It’s all just a dead cow to us. And no-one down here has really ever heard […]
Well, a little bird told me, a little bird told me A little bird told me, a little bird told me A little bird told me, a little bird told me A little bird told me, a little bird told me Hannah Bird is a very popular racing figure. Her hubby Mat is a real […]
The great question coming into Sunday’s season starting APG Brisbane standardbred yearling sale was how much all the wads of cash that company and it’s shareholders threw at the sale in an attempt to beat off the challenge from the newcomer to the trot auction scene Nutrien would stimulate the prices of the youngsters being […]
It’s proponents call it a Stallion Fee, it opponents call it a levy. Same horse, different jockey. Here are the weights. The base charge (or fee) to register a horse with the stud book is $500. Every owner of a sire pays it. Then the Stallion Fee kicks in. Australian domiciled stallions are exempt. All […]
With less than three months left of the season, and all of the rich 2YO races gone except the few up here, there is only one first year sire with progeny topping the million dollar mark (Russian Revolution), and just one other (The Mission) who looks a bolters chance of joining him. At this stage […]
