Newgate Farm announced yesterday that this season’s leading first season and Golden Slipper- (Gr 1, 1200m) winning sire Extreme Choice (Not A Single Doubt) will stand for a private fee in 2021.  Extreme Choice, who has five winners to his name and leads both the first season and two-year-old sire standings this term, stood for... Read More

A partnership between two big-hitting players of Australia’s thoroughbred industry appears to have come to an abrupt end after Aquis Farm principal Tony Fung vowed not to race horses with Phoenix Thoroughbreds, in the wake of the latter’s prize-money being frozen by Racing NSW and Racing Victoria on Friday last week, as the saga into... Read More

Champion miler son of Deep Impact to be joined by Invincible Spirit’s Royal Meeting Australia’s newest stud farm, Victoria’s Leneva Park, has announced the service fees for its inaugural line-up, high-class miler Fierce Impact, the only three-time Group 1 winner by Japan’s late breedshaper Deep Impact (Sunday Silence), and fellow internationally-bred topflight winner Royal Meeting... Read More

Promising two-year-old Arnaqueur (Astern) is no guarantee to back up in Saturday’s ATC Champagne Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) at Randwick as trainer Jean Dubois ponders the ramifications of raising the bar with the well-bred colt in his first racing campaign. Bred and owned by the David Chaikin-owned Woodpark Stud, a Southern Highland property managed by... Read More

There is no doubt that 2020 will be remembered for all the wrong reasons, with very few completely unaffected by the Covid-19 pandemic that has wreaked havoc across the world.  In March, it seemed like racing was just a heartbeat away from shutting down, right in the middle of the lucrative autumn carnival. When New... Read More