There can be few more potent pedigrees in Australian racing at present than that of Hilal, who broke through for black-type success with a slashing win in Saturday’s Stan Fox Stakes (Gr 2, 1500m) at Randwick.  The Team Hawkes-trained colt is from one of Emirates Park’s strongest female families – one which has spawned such... Read More

Sio Cheong signaled a warning to Stanley Chin that the Trainers’ Championship is by no means over with a double on the weekend taking him within four winners of Chin, with the score now reading 41 to 37. With just six racedays remaining, Chin is still in a strong position and it will not be... Read More

New first season sire winners Air Force Blue (pictured) Coolmore’s Air Force Blue (War Front) landed a second winner from his one and only southern hemisphere crop as Forceful Matilda (2 f ex Matilda’s Dance by Danehill Dancer) recorded a two-and-a-half-length win at Toowoomba in the two- and three-year-old maiden over 1200 metres. The filly... Read More

Jerry Chau’s quest for the Tony Cruz Award, the prize for Hong Kong’s most successful homegrown jockey in 2020/21, intensified with a treble at Happy Valley on yesterday evening – and a massive compliment from 13-time champion rider Douglas Whyte. Chau’s three-timer on Benno Yung’s Sure Win Win (Deep Field) in the second section of... Read More

Popular Kiwi offering draft of five weanlings at Magic Millions Gold Coast National Sale Sullivan Bloodstock might not yet be a name which instantly resonates as among the leading vendors in Australia, but the face behind the new venture is experienced, well known and already has plans for expansion. Talented Victoria-based horsewoman Sherah Sullivan, a... Read More