Danehill’s (Danzig) prevailing dominance of the Australian stallion ranks since the mid 1990s can only be described as a racing dynasty scaling Habsburgian proportions, however the winds of change swirling beneath the sireline’s throne have blown that bit more profusely this week on the Gold Coast.  Of course, a yearling by a Danehill-line stallion sits... Read More

Here’s one you don’t see too often: Lot 311 at yesterday’s Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale was a colt whose grandam is it’s great-grandam.  The colt is by Menari, who’s by Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice) out of Isurava (General Nediym).  And he’s the first foal of a three-time winner in Natalia (Choisir), whose dam Booralee... Read More

Nothin Leica Storm (Anabaa) – winner of a Cessnock maiden and a sometimes fertile broodmare – has become a million-to-one horse.  It cost Mackay breeder Paul Maguire just $1,000 to buy the daughter of Anabaa (Danzig), fresh from a not very good 12th of 12 at Port Macquarie, after she’d been passed in at the... Read More

Shane Nichols had his heart set on buying the first foal out of his Group 1-winning mare I Am A Star (I Am Invincible) but he admits the Deep Field (Northern Meteor) colt’s price tag saw him pushed to the limit. “Eight hundred thousand is $800,000,” trainer Nichols said of Lot 125, the fifth highest-priced... Read More

Trilogy Racing is determined to make an impact – and fast – and there’s arguably no better way than doing that than by joining forces with one of the most successful colts partnerships of the past decade.  Not yet 12 months in existence, and already with a rapidly growing bloodstock portfolio under management, the NSW... Read More