Cigar Flick and Fire Lane nominated for $200,000 feature at Rosehill Fire Lane (Hellbent) is no certainty to resume in The Rosebud (Listed, 1100m), while the promising Cigar Flick (Churchill) will take race fitness into Saturday’s feature three-year-old race, one which will likely determine the immediate future of the two fillies. The Darley Princess Series,... Read More

A host of star mares including Hungry Heart and Away Game set to deliver first produce Yulong Stud’s mammoth investment in broodmares in recent years is about to bear some of its most royally bred fruit, as a selection of Australia’s better-performed modern racemares prepare to deliver their first foals at the Victorian farm. Five... Read More

Awapuni visitor Belardo Boy (Belardo) claimed the first stakes race of the new season when he came with a determined late run to capture the Winter Cup (Gr 3, 1600m) at Riccarton yesterday. The Lisa Latta-trained five-year-old had been blocked for a run when finishing seventh in the Opunake Cup (Listed, 1400m) at his last... Read More

Season’s stakes-race opener goes the way of Dynamic Syndications’ colour bearer in an all-the-way triumph A slight drop back in grade yesterday saw I Am Me (I Am Invincible) land her maiden Group-race success as she dominated the Missile Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) at Rosehill, the opening stakes contest of the season in Sydney. Having... Read More

Breeding barn beckons if Frankel mare doesn’t fire at Rosehill for her new trainer Pride Regally-bred stakes-winning mare Argentia (Frankel) could be on her last chance to forestall a second scheduled retirement to the breeding barn in Sydney’s first black type race of the season for new trainer Joe Pride today. John Camilleri’s five-year-old, a... Read More