Week in Rowe-view
Plenty of optimism in New Zealand racing industry
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
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Is there a chance that racing in Macau could be revived?
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The year in Rowe-view
Just when you think there’s a quiet time in racing and breeding and not a lot to talk or write about, lo and behold, something comes at you faster than Chautauqua in a TJ Smith and 2023 has been no exception, the past three months in particular. It sets next year up, starting at the... Read More
Future looking bright for Harron’s team of youngsters
James Harron and his backers don’t have another stallion on their hands just yet, but the partnership’s current cohort of two-year-olds as a group might just be their strongest yet – and certainly since 2019-20 when King’s Legacy (Redoute’s Choice) won two Group 1s as a juvenile. Highness made it three stakes winners for Harron... Read More
The latest in a year of shocks
Just as we were getting over the political barney involving Russell Balding almost having his two-year term on the Racing NSW board rubber stamped, and then withdrawn at the last minute in bizarre circumstances by the party who introduced it, the Australian Turf Club stepped up to deliver one of the shocks of the year.... Read More
‘New Zealand continues to punch above its weight’
In many ways, people view New Zealand as the poor cousin to Australia, hamstrung by sparse human habitation and an even smaller thoroughbred broodmare population, but the country’s equine industry continues to punch above its weight. As last week’s New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale proved, unquestionably the strongest in Australasia this year. Reputation... Read More