It's In The Blood
Coco Sun
Ali and Frazier. Sampras and Agassi. Redoute’s and Encosta. Amid some of sport’s greatest rivalries, the battle between the last pair has become one of the tightest, and most engrossing, Australia’s thoroughbred landscape has enjoyed. There’s one major difference, of course: the competition between Redoute’s Choice (Danehill), born in 1996, and Encosta De Lago (Fairy... Read More
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Zoukerette
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