Emotions ran high, amid remembrances of people and horses past, when Silent Sovereign (Dalakhani) stormed home to take Saturday’s Queen Of The South Stakes (Gr 2, 1600m) at Morphettville. And they’ll run even higher if she can win the Caulfield Cup (Gr 1, 2400m) this spring. The five-year-old mare owes her existence to a giant... Read More

New winners Caravaggio – Powderfinger (2 f ex Count Your Fingers by General Nediym) provided Caravaggio (Scat Daddy) with a first Australian winner at Kembla Grange when she landed the Bailey Interiors Maiden Handicap (1200m). Trained by Gary Portelli, the two-year-old filly ran out a half-length victor over Latin Lyric (Wandjina) with a further head... Read More

Prowess (AUS) 2 f Proisir – Donna Marie by Don Eduardo O: D & J Skipper, C Skipper, A Skipper & M Schlooz T: Roger James and Robert Wellwood S: NZB Karaka Sale Book 1, 2021, $230,000 V: Hallmark Stud Buyer P: Roger James and Robert Wellwood W: Racehorse Owners Association 2YO, 1200m, Wanganui, April... Read More

It’s well known how success in breeding hinges on family connections. And now some such linkages – of the human kind – have led over several decades to a new stakes winner, in Adelaide last weekend. Around 1980, then-emerging breeder David Hains looked north, way north, and imported the Danish Oaks winner Love Song (Warpath),... Read More

Swettenham Stud stallion Toronado (High Chaparral) broke through for a milestone first stakes success in Hong Kong on Sunday when the Caspar Fownes-trained Senor Toba further franked the form of this year’s four-year-old Classic generation with victory in the Queen Mother Memorial Cup (Gr 3, 2400m) at Sha Tin. A fast-finishing fourth in the Hong... Read More