Downey hails successful Valachi dispersal as Gavelhouse Plus sale oversees Matamata Stud’s latest move towards market exit Valachi Downs general manager Gareth Downey was left delighted but emotional yesterday when Baggy Green (Galileo) – dam of four-time Group 1 winner Tofane (Ocean Park) – was purchased for $1.75 million as the Valachi Downs mares’ dispersal... Read More

In years gone by, knockabout trainer Frankie Stockdale would be spending the depths of the Victorian winter educating a handful of yearlings for the the two-year-old sales later in the year and taking on the giants of the industry trying to win a maiden at Bairnsdale, Sale or his hometrack of Pakenham. This year, after... Read More

Breeze-up vendor toasts graduate success while enjoying stable road trip In years gone by, knockabout trainer Frankie Stockdale would be spending the depths of the Victorian winter educating a handful of yearlings for the the two-year-old sales later in the year and taking on the giants of the industry trying to win a maiden at... Read More

Raw Freedman-trained juvenile to aim up at Life Members Stakes at Eagle Farm with view to spring targets Bell River Thoroughbreds’ Ferguson family are no strangers to racing quality fillies and they hope they have another one on their hands in the form of Resistible (Snitzel), a dominant first-start winner at Newcastle earlier this month.... Read More

New Zealand Bloodstock will not be rushed into finding director of sales replacement at Karaka complex Long-serving New Zealand Bloodstock employee Danny Rolston will join the Hong Kong Jockey Club in a new position overseeing the International Sale while also liaising with the organisation’s influential cohort of racehorse owners.  Rolston has been appointed as the... Read More