2 f Snitzel – Travessia by Deep Impact O: Jamieson Park Ltd B: Arrowfield Group Pty Ltd, Jungle Pocket Pty Ltd T: Murray Baker & Andrew Forsman S: Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale V: Arrowfield Stud P: Bruce Perry Bloodstock/Jamieson Park, $380,000 W: 2YO Maiden Plate, 1200m, March 11, Matamata Blueblood Safe Passage (Snitzel) is... Read More

The legislative assisted reform of the New Zealand racing industry moved a step closer to fruition last week with the final submissions made to the Select Committee which will advise government.   This poses the following questions: what’s been the process and what happens now? And what is the most critical element of the reform... Read More

It can be all too easy to be dismissive of the mental and physical wellbeing concerns of racing’s participants – especially jockeys, trainers and stable staff – even though they have been aired more and more often in recent years.  The usual platitudinous rejoinders often centre on the simplistic notion that the participants can choose... Read More

After drawing badly in stall 12 and conceding the leaders some eight lengths nearing the home turn, talented New Zealander Te Akau Shark (Rip Van Winkle) needed to produce an effort out of the box to win Saturday’s Chipping Norton Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) at Randwick. And he did. The five-year-old took a moment to... Read More

2 c Wandjina – Forbidden by General Nediym O: Aston Bloodstock (W J Mula), Mrs R J Mula, B G Mahony, Mrs A M Mahony, Miss C J Stone, Mrs J M Stone, D Burges, E Law, J L Martin, Mrs K Walsh, K J Pryke, L F Durney, M J Grace, G M Fraser,... Read More