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I’m sure that’s the way it was supposed to be
Praise the Lord, a southern hemisphere bred horse won the Melbourne Cup. Dare we say Australasian bred? I think not. Verry Elleegant (Zed) is a product of New Zealand. The fourth NZ-bred winner since 2000. Remarkably, given the overall dominance of northern hemisphere-trained horses and the harbingers of antipodean breeding doom, that’s more individual winners... Read More
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Eight for Almanzor
New winners Almanzor (pictured) – It was a good week for Cambridge Stud shuttler Almanzor (Wootton Bassett) as he sired his seventh and eighth individual winners. Dissociate (2 f ex Party Animal by Makfi) became the seventh winner for the first-season-sire when she won the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden over seven furlongs at... Read More
No fear from Lemaire as Gran Alegria prepares to face Contrail and Efforia
Gran Alegria (Deep Impact) is primed for a return to action in this weekend’s Autumn Tenno Sho (Gr 1, 2000m) at Tokyo and the brilliant mare’s rider Christophe Lemaire is firm in his conviction that she has all the attributes needed to fend off last year’s Triple Crown hero Contrail (Deep Impact) and the current... Read More
Shulz prepares to bid fond farewell to life at Caulfield
A black and white scrapbook cut out of a tiny young girl sitting very happily on a big thoroughbred says a lot about what was to transpire in the life story of Kylie Schulz. She started riding trackwork at the tender age of ten and it’s become her life ever since. There’s nowhere she would... Read More
Mokulua (AUS)
Mokulua (AUS) 3 f Redoute’s Choice – Dear Demi by Dehere O: Strawberry Hill Stud B: Strawberry Hill Stud T: Clarry Conners W: Fillies Classic (Gr 2, 1600m), Moonee Valley, October 23 Following in the footsteps of her Group 1-winning dam Dear Demi (Dehere), Mokulua (Redoute’s Choice) broke her maiden in impressive style when she... Read More
Semillion
Semillion became just the latest stakes winner from probably the strongest female family in the Australian stud book in taking Saturday’s $400,000 Inglis Banner (RL, 1000m) at Moonee Valley. Bred by Victorian titan Rob Crabtree, the three-year-old is another product of the Scandinavia (Snippets) line which hatched Black Caviar (Bel Esprit), All Too Hard (Casino... Read More