Stud News
Brutal retired to Newgate Farm after abandonment of Queensland carnival
The coronavirus outbreak has forced Doncaster Mile (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Brutal (O’Reilly) into immediate retirement rather than enjoying a Queensland winter campaign before heading to stud later this year. The Group 1 winner, a striking juvenile-winning four-year-old entire by champion New Zealand sire O’Reilly (Last Tycoon), will form part of the Newgate Farm stallion... Read More
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Queensland homecoming for Love Conquers All
Love Conquers All (Mossman) will return to Queensland for the upcoming breeding season, relocating from Sun Stud in Victoria to Clear Mountain Fairview on the Darling Downs in a coup for the sunshine state’s breeding industry. When first retired to stud in 2012, Love Conquers All was based in Queensland, standing at Eliza Park’s... Read More
Blue Diamond winner Tagaloa to stand at Yulong
Yulong has won the race to secure Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Tagaloa, who is by Japan’s hottest young sire Lord Kanaloa (King Kamehameha), for stud duties just a week after the two-year-old’s breakthrough juvenile stakes victory. It was the second major stallion coup for the Yuesheng Zhang-owned breeding and racing empire after... Read More
Aquis and Australian Bloodstock combine to secure high-class sprinter Graff
Group 1-placegetter Graff (Star Witness) has been acquired by Aquis Farm and Australian Bloodstock as a racing and breeding prospect and will stand at Aquis when his career on the track concludes. Replicating the partnership that combined to race dual Group 1 winner and Aquis’ current Hunter Valley resident Brave Smash (Tosen Phantom), Graff will... Read More
Group winner I Am Immortal to stand at Swettenham Stud
I Am Invincible’s (Invincible Spirit) only dual stakes-winning juvenile I Am Immortal will stand at Swettenham Stud later this year, but not before the Anthony Freedman-trained colt embarks on a Group 1 autumn mission aimed at enhancing his record. The three-year-old returned from a spell with a first-up second in last week’s W J Adams... Read More
Tavistock dies aged 14 at Cambridge Stud
Cambridge Stud has announced the death of influential stallion Tavistock (Montjeu), who suffered complications to an earlier injury sustained in a field. Bred by Bloomsbury Stud in New Zealand, the 14-year-old stems from the outstanding family developed by the Duchess Of Bedford from blue hen Mrs Moss (Reform), whose progeny include the 1986 Japan Cup... Read More