“It’s called line-breeding when it works, and in-breeding when it doesn’t,” is the old line, the sardonic joke that salves some of the wounds from the capricious lottery of making horses.   Fine lines indeed.   They’re being put under the microscope again, and in this instance starting to bear results, with a horse named Significance –... Read More

Two-year-old scores comprehensive win at Wyong to ensure trip to the Gold Coast She’s All Class (I Am Invincible) is fighting out pre-post favouritism for next month’s $2 million Magic Millions 2YO Classic (RL, 1200m) after a brilliant performance at Wyong yesterday surged her to the top of betting markets. The Chris Waller-trained juvenile filly,... Read More

Newgate Farm and Russian Revolution syndicate to pay windfall if Magic Millions or Inglis-bought youngsters land 2YO Classic or Millennium in 2022  Buyers of yearlings by exciting first crop stallion Russian Revolution (Snitzel) will have the opportunity to land a $500,000 windfall when his stock hits the track after Newgate Farm yesterday announced their first... Read More

Not even the spectre of Covid-19 could detract from the global nature of the Longines Hong Kong International Races at Sha Tin on Sunday. The Hong Kong Jockey Club bill the card’s Group 1 events as the ‘Turf World Championships’, and while other international meetings also easily live up to that status, there must have... Read More

Hutchinson heads to Ireland Ron Hutchinson made his move to Ireland in 1960 and then England two years later  – fundamentally lured by the money and inspired by Scobie Breasley. “Firstly it was seven guineas (about £7 7s) a losing ride, from memory, and the prize–money was much better, in those days, than it was... Read More

Stakeholders believe Melbourne’s reputation as value sale will attract strong buyer interest Inglis is banking on the significant elite level success of its Melbourne Premier graduates to highlight the prospects available at Victoria’s major thoroughbred auction after yesterday releasing the catalogue for its 2021 yearling sale.  This spring, the Premier sale is responsible for producing... Read More