Golden Rose aim for Fastnet Rock colt Mayfair
Spring stakes races are on the radar for lightly raced colt Mayfair (2 c Fastnet Rock ex Cicatrix, by Violence) after he broke his maiden in a 1200-metre contest at Rosehill on Saturday. One of Newgate Farm-China Horse Club’s portfolio of colts, the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained juvenile was able to cross from barrier... Read More
Dominant Colmar delivers Rosemont’s Strasbourg his first stakes winner
Colmar (Strasbourg) showed his toughness and his speed to become the first stakes winner for Rosemont Stud’s first-season sire Strasbourg (I Am Invincible) when the gelding landed Saturday’s South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes (Gr 3, 1400m) at Morphettville. Trained at Murray Bridge by Ron Daniel and Trish Stanbury and ridden by Samuel Payne, Colmar bounced... Read More
Arrowfield’s Dundeel holds Derby Ace
Arrowfield stallion Dundeel (High Chaparral) already looks to hold a strong hand for the first staying Classic of the season – the VRC Derby (Gr 1, 2500m) – after his sons ran the quinella in Saturday’s traditional early lead-up at Flemington. The Nick Ryan-trained Red Aces (Dundeel) and Danny O’Brien’s Politely Dun (Dundeel) fought out... Read More
Lofty spring goals set for exciting colt First Settler
Written Tycoon colt will be targeted at the Coolmore Stud Stakes this spring The Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained colt First Settler (Written Tycoon) lived up to his small odds and large price-tag when he added further trimmings to Written Tycoon’s (Iglesia) two-year-old sires’ title by taking Saturday’s Russell Dawson Plate (1000m) at Flemington.... Read More
Bookmakers hit by global computer outage
Betting giants Tabcorp and Sportsbet were among hundreds of major businesses in Australia impacted by a global IT outage which affected millions of people around the world. At approximately 3pm on Friday, betting with TAB came to a complete standstill both online and in retail, with Sportsbet also experiencing issues with its online offering. The... Read More
Stakes-winning duo catalogued on gavelhouse
Group 3 winner Fashion Shoot (Savabeel) and stakes scorer Viva Vienna (All Too Hard), who were both raced by Te Akau, are the stand-out lots catalogued on gavelhouse.com’s latest fortnightly auction. “They’re two really nice mares that have quality pedigrees behind them and performed very well on the track, and now we’re looking forward to... Read More