When in 2015 US breeding operation Spendthrift Farm decided to go the whole hog on their Australian journey, purchasing Yallambee Stud in Victoria, their remit – in addition to hosting the US shuttle stallions – like any successful commercial stud farm would have been to breed big-race winners, buy big-race winners and create stallions to... Read More

Trainer: Roger James and Robert Wellwood Race: New Zealand Oaks (Gr 1, 2400m) Today’s New Zealand Oaks (Gr 1, 2400m) is the feature race across the Tasman, with 14 fillies hoping to etch their names among the best females New Zealand has had to offer. Although the race offers up a $400,000 prize-money carrot, the... Read More

Blue Diamond Stakes runner-up Revolutionary Miss a fifth starter in the world’s richest juvenile race for the prominent syndicator The 1995 Golden Slipper (Gr 1, 1200m) has, so far, had the greatest impact of any two-year-old race on Triple Crown Syndications, even though the business itself was not established until more than a decade later.... Read More

The retiring Murray Baker and his training partner Andrew Forsman provided a toast to the past and a glimpse to the future after lightly raced filly Lickety Split (Turn Me Loose) upstaged her more fancied rivals in yesterday’s Sistema Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) in New Zealand. Hall Of Fame trainer Baker will bring his long... Read More

The Jerome Hunter-trained Barb Raider (3 f Rebel Raider – Graebarb by Host) recorded successive stakes-race victories when she produced a career-best performance to win the Kewney Stakes (Gr 2, 1600m) at Flemington yesterday. Last seen winning the The Vanity (Gr 3, 1400m), the three-year-old bravely fought off the late challenge of Kevin Hayes Stakes... Read More