Features

A record-breaking season for Hong Kong

With the final meeting of the campaign having been run on Sunday, this Hong Kong season was all about records. Lots of them, and tumbling.  From Zac Purton’s much vaunted record-breaking campaign in the saddle, to John Size claiming a record 12th trainers’ title, while in the equine department Deep Field (Northern Meteor) smashed his... Read More

18 for Blue Point

New winners Blue Point (pictured above) – Darley’s Blue Point (Shamardal) was handed his 17th and 18th individual winners last week, beginning when Specific Times (2 f ex Daily Times by Gleneagles) scored in a six-furlong nursery at York. Specific Times is the first foal out of the winning Gleneagles (Galileo) mare Daily Times, herself... Read More

The stallion makers

Building talented colts into stallions can be a lucrative business model for any stable. By The Numbers looks at the trainers with the most graduates on Australasian stallion rosters. John Hawkes built his reputation as a maker of future stallions in his tenure in charge of Bob and Jack Ingham’s Crown Lodge operation. In the... Read More

I Am Famous

TRAINER: Chris Waller RACE: Inglis Race Series Closing Handicap (1400m) A capacity field of 14 will line up in the two-year-old handicap at Randwick today as juveniles bid to make a last dash to add to their race records before turning three next month.  Among those horses aiming to get off the mark in their... Read More

Clarken hoping his loyalty pays off

Will Clarken wasn’t afraid to admit for a time he’d been questioning his decision to base his training business in Adelaide as the prize-money gulf between South Australia and Victoria and NSW, in particular, widened. So, he was relieved to have been delivered the news on Monday that prize-money would be increased by $7.4 million... Read More

McHale (AUS)

McHale (AUS) 2 c Shooting To Win – Xaar’s Jewel by Xaar O: Star Thoroughbreds Pty Ltd, Paramount Racing, Mr O Enriquez B: Mrs M Wright T: Chris Waller S: 2022 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale V: Edinglassie Stud P: Star Thoroughbreds / Randwick Bloodstock Agency, $160,000 W: Robrick Lodge Handicap, 1250m, July 12, Canterbury Few... Read More