Many Australian and New Zealand studs, their staff, bloodstock agents plus staff of each country’s auctioneers, will be saddened with the news that popular French agent, Bernard de Saint-Seine, passed away last month. ANZ Bloodstock News was made aware of his passing by Fairdale Stud’s Gerald Fell and bloodstock agent Michael Otto. Saint-Seine was much... Read More

Coolmore Australia will award a brand new Ferrari to the owners of the first Justify (Scat Daddy) foal to win a selected two- or three-year-old feature race.   The new concept will see Coolmore present a Ferrari to the buyer listed in the official sales results or owner/breeder of the first Justify to win one... Read More

Aquis Farm has entered into a joint venture with a major blockchain gaming and metaverse company to exclusively develop digital equestrian assets for the increasingly popular virtual world and NFT (non-fungible tokens) space. The Fung family’s prominent racing and breeding brand Aquis Farm has joined forces with Animoca Brands, a high-growth digital company in the... Read More

Written Tycoon (Iglesia), the first Victorian stallion since 1979 to top the Australian Sires Premiership, was awarded the Champion Victorian Sire award at the 2020-21 Victorian Breeders Awards on Wednesday night. The stallion, who x seasons at Woodside Park before relocating to Arrowfield for the 2020 breeding season, now stands at Victoria’s Yulong Investment property... Read More

The body of jockey Chris Caserta was retrieved from the Gold Coast surf early yesterday, about 36 hours after the former Victorian rider was caught in a Surfers Paradise rip and tragically drowned. Fellow rider Amy Graham, 25, who was with Caserta at the time of the incident which occurred soon after 10pm on Wednesday,... Read More