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‘I loved his fight and that was important for me at this time in my life’

Emotional Creswick Stakes win for Free To Move’s breeder Smith Some victories mean more than others and for Leeanne Smith, the breeder of Saturday’s A R Creswick Stakes (Listed, 1200m) winner Free To Move (Unencumbered), the timing and the manner of the little gelding’s performance could not have been better. The Flemington win of the... Read More

Snitzel’s stakes-winning son Sandbar to stand at Kooringal Stud

Studmaster Lamont to also take on Group 3-winning Frankel entire Last Kingdom for 2021 season Kooringal Stud will stand Sandbar (Snitzel), the stakes-winning older three-quarter brother to Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Farnan (Not A Single Doubt), at its southern NSW property this year where he will be joined by fellow newcomer, European... Read More

NSW government to fund $20 million Scone stable and track project 

Muswellbrook to also benefit from $67 million state budget as Cessnock in line for upgrade A stable complex with the capacity for hundreds of extra horses and a new Polytrack will be built in the thoroughbred breeding heartland of Scone as Racing NSW’s long-slated plan to upgrade training facilities across the state won approval from... Read More

Think Big Stud on the market

Internationally renowned property up for sale for eight-figure sum  Lime Country Thoroughbreds’ move from the NSW Southern Highlands to Blandford in the Hunter Valley has paved the way for the estate of the late Dato’ Tan Chin Nam to place Think Big Stud on the market. The prized horse property, which has been tenanted by... Read More

Ward yearning for Everest berth with ‘right horse’ 

US trainer will saddle first season shuttle stallion-sired favourites for Queen Mary and Windsor Castle at Royal Ascot today Just uttering the name Wesley Ward will strike fear into rival Royal Ascot trainers, with the US handler having dominated the juvenile sprint features at the royal meeting in recent years.  And this season looks likely... Read More

Spring campaign being mapped out for Tatt’s Tiara-bound filly Odeum

Lucrative Golden Eagle proving hard to ignore for connections of talented rising four-year-olds The $7.5 million Golden Eagle (1500m) is firmly on the radar of Group 1-winning filly Odeum (Written Tycoon) but not before she attempts to take out a second race at the highest level this season, taking on the older mares to bring... Read More