Sometimes breeding success comes after meticulous planning. At other times, it falls in your lap. Karaka Millions 2YO (RL,1200m) winner La Dorada (Super Seth) is the latest starlet from a Waikato Stud family that has been pure gold, one of the richest seams in the farm’s illustrious history. And to think, her heavily black typed... Read More

Miss Roumbini (Zoustar) showed her class again by scorching over the Gold Coast turf to win last Friday night’s Magic Millions Fillies & Mares (1300m), to make it five wins from nine starts and sound a loud warning of even better things to come. In her career so far, she’s not only proving an exciting... Read More

Things certainly run in a sequence in the Langbecker family, the breeding name behind flying filly Amosu (Invader), winner of Saturday’s The Debut 2YO Plate (1000m) at the Gold Coast. The dynasty began with Kevin Thomas, the former king of Albion Park and a revered member of Queensland’s Harness Racing Hall of Fame. He passed... Read More

Excluding his first barrier trial, on a heavy track as a January two-year-old, Private Harry (Harry Angel) has won everything he’s contested. The beautifully coloured bay had four more trials before he raced, at Gosford, Beaumont, Muswellbrook and Newcastle. Won them all, by between 1.7 and 4.6 lengths. He had his race debut as a... Read More

Here, in lot order, is a look at half a dozen among the many choice yearlings who’ll go on offer at the Magic Millions yearling sale which gets underway on the Gold Coast on Tuesday. LOT 185 B f Written Tycoon – Away Game (Snitzel) From Yulong’s 37-lot draft comes an exciting filly first foal... Read More