It's In The Blood
Elite Street
Sometimes in breeding and racing you’re rewarded for your own judgement. Sometimes other people’s decisions work for you. The latter is the case concerning former WA Supreme Court judge Robert Anderson and Elite Street, who completed an undulating journey in rising from fourth in a Pinjarra maiden six months ago to becoming a Group 1... Read More
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Inspirational Girl
Inspirational Girl landed a windfall for favourite backers who crunched her from $3.50 to $2.60 in taking the Railway Stakes at Ascot last Saturday, becoming the first Group 1 winner bred by New Zealand’s Jamieson Park stud. The West Australian mare – yet another from breeder Bob Peters’ cerise and white production line – had... Read More
Hindaam
In racing and breeding, sometimes champagne and caviar can come disguised as flat beer and sardines, with one person’s poison morphing into another person’s meat. In 2013, Gai Waterhouse and James Harron Bloodstock shelled out half a million dollars for a well-bred yearling – by Fastnet Rock out of Legally Bay. She was a bay,... Read More
Bivouac
We all know the definition of insanity as stated by Albert Einstein: Doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results. Yet with all due respect to the man, mentioned in dispatches as being no midweek maiden above the shoulders, doing the same thing repeatedly and seeing the same result isn’t necessarily a... Read More
Twilight Payment
It can take a lifetime to win a Melbourne Cup, and then they come along all at once. Teofilo, the seemingly unstoppable son of Galileo, deepened his growing impact on world racing when Twilight Payment earned his sire a second Cup victory in three years on Tuesday, after the win of Cross Counter in 2018. ... Read More
Cherry Tortoni
They say some have greatness thrust upon them. Perhaps others have it forced upon them – by old fashioned economic reality. They also say too many sweets are bad for you, but in the case of whisking up this pedigree, you could say oodles was still not enough. The main highlight to be found from... Read More