It's In The Blood
Marine One (AUS)
Like fathers, like sons. Among the many layers in the storied success of Written Tycoon (Iglesia), the great sire’s equal-top cross is via mares by Redoute’s Choice (Danehill), with 26 winners from 33 runners, identical to Flying Spur (Danehill). So, like going to school off a playing partner’s putt, a generation later it was with... Read More
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Lady Laguna
If it was good enough for I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit), it should be good enough for one of his sons. That in part informed Spendthrift Farm’s thinking in retiring Overshare (I Am Invincible), who they’d owned from a yearling, to stud in 2018. So far the results have been encouraging. If you call 100... Read More
Count De Rupee
The beauty of yearling sales is they’re like the lolly display in the old corner shop: there’s something for everyone. Japanese sires have proven a little hard to market in Australia. And many buyers might eschew lightly-framed horses, or unraced dams. But those factors meant three big ticks for Rob Price at the Gold Coast... Read More
Lost And Running
There’s an Italian stallion – in both the literal and the Hollywood sense – who they call Magnum, and who’s been shooting up a storm of late, also in more ways than one. Per Incanto, with a nickname drawn from the initials PI, is boosting two often overlooked thoroughbred regions: Italy, where the sprinter began... Read More
Sejardan
Ever had that dream where you’re getting around in public feeling pretty damn good and then you look down and suddenly realise you’re stark naked? That may be something like how Dale Miller felt at the Inglis Select Yearling Sale in Scone in 2015. The Wauchope businessman had gone seeking to take a more forward... Read More
Willowy
Willowy will set out to repair a tough couple of weeks for Godolphin three-year-olds and become the latest headline act for her super-producing dam and a highly successful female line in today’s VRC Oaks at Flemington. She will also be looking to provide her sire Kermadec a follow-up Group 1 winner – after triple top-level... Read More