New winners Caravaggio (pictured) – One-season Coolmore shuttler Caravaggio (Scat Daddy) picked up his 25th individual winner of his first northern hemisphere crop when Tiber Flow (2 c ex Malabar by Raven’s Pass) secured a promising victory on debut at Newcastle on Friday evening. The William Haggas-trained juvenile won by a length under Tom Marquand... Read More

The much anticipated thoroughbred welfare report released last week by the Thoroughbred Aftercare Welfare Working Group (TAWWG) was outstanding. Appropriately entitled “The Most Important Participant’, the 46 well-thought-out recommendations within it were absolutely spot on. A number of the report’s concluding statements came as no surprise to many, with welfare challenges facing the industry labelled... Read More

Ebhaar (AUS) 2 f I Am Invincible – Maroon Bay by Exceed And Excel O: Emirates Park B: Emirates Park T: Peter and Paul Snowden W: Thoroughbred Club Merson Cooper Stakes (Listed, 1000m), Caulfield, November 27   Emirates Park look to have another Golden Slipper (Gr 1, 1200m) candidate on their hands, this time a... Read More

If it was good enough for I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit), it should be good enough for one of his sons.  That in part informed Spendthrift Farm’s thinking in retiring Overshare (I Am Invincible), who they’d owned from a yearling, to stud in 2018.  So far the results have been encouraging. If you call 100... Read More

The temptation in racing is always to vigorously sing the praises of the smaller trainer doing well with limited numbers.  Nothing wrong with that, of course, although it is often accompanied by a tinge of dismissive contempt of those at the top of the training tree as if numbers are all that is required.  Numbers... Read More