NZB release Online Yearling Sale catalogue on Gavelhouse Plus
New Zealand Bloodstock’s (NZB) 2024 National Online Yearling Sale is now live, with the 100-lot catalogue available to view on Gavelhouse Plus. For the fourth year, the digital edition to NZB’s National Yearling Sales Series is set to be conducted on the premium online platform Gavelhouse Plus with bidding closing on Wednesday, April 17, from... Read More
Racing NSW acquires Goulburn
Racing NSW will take ownership of Goulburn racecourse after members voted to transfer the club’s land freehold to the regulatory body. Goulburn District Racing Club members voted in favour of handing over the racecourse to Racing NSW during a general meeting on Tuesday night. ANZ Bloodstock News established that the members’ vote was carried 58-10... Read More
Snowden’s hoping ‘under the radar’ Fearless can come of age at Randwick
Son of Yulong’s Pierata attempts to land first stakes win in this weekend’s Inglis Sires’ Forecasts of an autumn carnival-style Biblical deluge and a feeling that Fearless (Pierata) has slipped under the radar has co-trainer Peter Snowden increasingly hopeful the colt can spring an upset in Saturday’s Inglis Sires’ (Gr 1, 1400m). At first glance,... Read More
Gray’s Kranji days are over as Kiwi walks out on Singapore
Last of the ‘originals’ to return to New Zealand after 24 years training in Asia Accomplished trainer Stephen Gray has announced he will quit Singaporean racing imminently after walking out of a meeting with government officials last month feeling dismayed. His Singapore training peers, which included fellow Kiwi expatriate Donna Logan, also left with a... Read More
Shades of 1983
Same venue but a different race, Saturday’s Roy Higgins Quality (Gr 3, 2600m) brought to mind a longer race which is run on the first Tuesday of November. Replay the last 100 metres of the 1983 Melbourne Cup (Gr 1, 3200m) and there is Kiwi (Blarney Kiss), sprinting as if he had just joined in,... Read More
Group 1 winner Belclare to be offered at Magic Millions
Fresh from her historic second win in Saturday’s New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m), Belclare (Per Incanto) will be offered at the upcoming Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale at the Gold Coast. The stable star for premiership-winning trainer Lisa Latta, Belclare will go under the hammer as an exciting racing and breeding prospect... Read More