There’s plenty of optimism in the Kiwi racing industry, buoyed by this week’s injection of new money, via the NZ$4.5 million The NZB Kiwi (1500m) and a reshaped summer-autumn carnival, but New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing chief executive Bruce Sharrock isn’t resting on his laurels. Among the 2018-tabled Messara Report’s recommendations was the outsourcing of the... Read More

There have been a few false dawns along the way, but out of the some dark times the landscape for Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott’s latest juvenile winner looks exactly as it sounds: Fully Lit. RedFox Thoroughbreds’ son of Hellbent (I Am Invincible) produced a sparkling debut to win by almost three lengths in Saturday’s... Read More

Too Darn Lizzie (AUS) 2 f Too Darn Hot – Enbihaar by Magnus O: Lord Lloyd Webber and Ms L Spender B: Fraser Brown, Rohan Ford and Mrs S Cummings T: Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott S: 2023 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale V: Vinery Stud P: McKeever Bloodstock / Watership Down / Gai... Read More

Is there a chance that racing in Macau, the world’s largest city of gamblers, could be revived once the privately owned Jockey Club is relieved of its licence on April 1? Racing in Singapore was dead in the water from the moment the government last year announced it would repossess the Kranji site and close... Read More

It’s a wondrous thing, the people and the places racing and breeding can bring you into contact with. Rob Cummings, furniture importer and hobby farmer originally from Ringwood in eastern Melbourne, bought a mare and sold her daughter and now he’s one degree of separation from her buyer, Mr Phantom Of The Opera himself, Lord... Read More