Suman Hedge snares the top race mare to send to champion stallion Written Tycoon this spring Group 2-winning race mare Fasika (So You Think) sold to Suman Hedge for $920,000 through the Inglis August (Late) Online Sale yesterday, continuing the trend of big prices being paid for quality breeding prospects. With some forecasting the Joe... Read More

Ayrton, Annavisto and Parlophone set to step up their campaigns with lofty targets ahead Mick Price and Mick Kent Jr will hold a strong hand at Saturday’s Caulfield meeting but the training partners will resist the temptation to play their aces in any of the five stakes races on the Group 1 card, preferring to... Read More

Eric Cheung has enjoyed a wonderful first season as a senior rider and he added to his tally with another four winners over the weekend, taking him to 56 winners for the season, sounding an ominous warning to champion jockey Luis Corrales for next year. Cheung had 11 rides over the Friday to Sunday race... Read More

San Domenico unlikely for Payne’s promising son of Capitalist but trainer holds Group 1 ambition for colt Gleneagles (Capitalist) could be given the chance to take on his generation’s best-credentialled three-year-olds during his spring campaign but it almost certainly won’t be this weekend. Rosehill-based David Payne, who took over the training of the colt during... Read More

Melbourne stakes winner for Newhaven’s Xtravagant and cup hopefuls unearthed at Valley It was hard for Mark Pilkington and Darren Thomas to ponder the spring ahead, but the maiden stakes win by young stallion Xtravagant (Pentire) and the emergence of two potential cups contenders at Moonee Valley should have them excited what is to come... Read More