Rolston confident Karaka juvenile auction can maintain market-leading status New Zealand Bloodstock management is confident that the company’s reputation as the provider of arguably the leading Australasian two-year-old sale can be maintained when the auction house presents a smaller catalogue of juveniles compared to past years at Karaka. Danny Rolston, NZB’s bloodstock sales manager, was... Read More

The Keeneland September Yearling Sale, described as one of the most important thoroughbred auctions in the world, got underway in the US last night as the company’s incoming leader pointed to Australia as setting the platform for the global bloodstock market to appeal to a grounded buying bench. Shannon Arvin, a “recovering lawyer” with a... Read More

Japanese import completes Toorak Handicap, Cantala Stakes, Makybe Diva Stakes treble as Queenslander sweeps into Sydney Fierce Impact became the first horse, in successive seasons, to claim Melbourne’s spring Group 1 mile treble and continued jockey Mark Zahra’s stellar start to the 2020-21 season when he won yesterday’s incident packed Makybe Diva Stakes (Gr 1,... Read More

The three-time Melbourne Cup winner’s first trainer speaks to ANZ Bloodstock News from Hong Kong  Seventeen years ago this week, trainer David Hall departed Flemington with the favourite for the Melbourne Cup (Gr 1, 3200m); earlier that afternoon, Hall’s Pentastic (Pentire) had arrived in the last stride to take out the Craiglee Stakes (Gr 2,... Read More

International sprinter Lope Y Fernandez ruled out of this year’s $15 million slot race This season’s three-year-old colts, considered by some observers to be the strongest generation for a quarter of a century, loom large on Coolmore’s radar as the breeding and racing powerhouse continues to weigh up its options for this year’s The Everest... Read More