Murrulla Stud’s Tim Nolan has penalty reduced to 11 months on appeal over horse deaths
Hunter Valley nursery Murrulla Stud has been granted permission to continue to trade bloodstock, but its principal Tim Nolan will not be allowed to attend thoroughbred sales for the next 11 months after the NSW racing appeal panel yesterday handed down its decision relating to the death of two horses last year. Nolan was disqualified... Read More
Melbourne lawyers living Slipper dream with share in star colts Profiteer and Stay Inside
Couple hit the jackpot as Newgate swoops on stallion prospects in a matter of weeks Melbournian couple Nadia Angelo and Anna Dodgshun are on the equine ride of their lives, sharing in the ownership of arguably Australia’s most valuable two-year-old colts, leading Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) seeds Profiteer (Capitalist) and Stay Inside (Extreme... Read More
“Neither was a saint but each generous of spirit and wonderful company”
Lamenting the loss of two greats of the racing press room Paul Haigh and Ray Huxley died within three weeks of each other this year. Same age, 76. Same lament, prematurely – notwithstanding well lived lives and immeasurable contributions to the written word on horseracing. Their funerals were last Thursday, thousands of kilometres apart. From... Read More
Half-sister to Winx added to Chairman’s Sale
Sebastian Hutch, Inglis’ general manager of bloodstock sales and marketing, has labelled the addition of a half-sister to Winx (Street Cry) at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale as ‘a collector’s item’. Courchevel, the Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice) half-sister to Winx, joins dual Group 1 winners Pippie (Written Tycoon) and Danzdanzdance (Mastercraftsman) as the latest high-profile fillies and... Read More
Thompson digs deep for his Impending star at record Magic Millions Tasmanian Yearling Sale
Trainer Cameron Thompson yesterday fended off a powerful band of mainland buyers who dominated the top-end of the Magic Millions Tasmanian Yearling Sale to keep an impressive $150,000 son of Darley’s first season sire Impending (Lonhro) in his home state. The highest-priced lot sold at Quercus Park in Carrick, one of six six-figure yearlings in... Read More
‘If you tread water eventually you will drown, so you get bigger or you will go backwards’
Historic Widden Stud takes over Sun Stud’s Victorian operation Antony Thompson says to survive in an increasingly global thoroughbred breeding industry, stud farms need to get bigger to compete, a realisation which led to his decision to take on a Victorian holding with his family’s famed Widden Stud, Australia’s oldest thoroughbred farm. Widden principal Thompson... Read More