Kah leads the pack in race to complete extraordinary achievement

Jockey Jamie Kah’s success is likely to prove the racing story of the current season.  That will be especially so if she were to go on to claim the Victorian metropolitan jockeys’ premiership in which she currently has a seven win lead over Damien Oliver and a winning  strike rate of 20 per cent, which... Read More

Gangemis’ Magic touch with tried horses on show in Winterbottom

Life left in veterans as trio line up in Perth’s $1 million feature sprint at Ascot Perth-based brothers Chris and Michael Gangemi have made an artform out of raiding eastern-state stables searching for relative diamonds in the rough in order to uncover horses capable of being rejuvenated in the west. The exercise has been rather... Read More

Pagan dips into December Yearling Sale as Sea The Stars steals the show with 300,000gns top lot at Tattersalls

Denis Pagan, who caused an upset in last month’s Victoria Derby (Gr 1, 2500m) when saddling six-race maiden Johnny Get Angry (Tavistock) to victory, was active at Tattersalls on Monday, going to 85,000 guineas (approx. AUD$162,250) to secure a son of Australia (Galileo) from the December Yearling Sale.  The colt, who is out of an... Read More

‘Strongest Karaka yearling sale catalogue for some time’

Depth of stallions underpins New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2021 offering  A concerted long-term commitment by New Zealand stud masters to improve the depth of the country’s stallion ranks is borne out in next year’s Karaka Yearling Sale with breeders no longer needing to solely rely on the progeny of champion sire Savabeel (Zabeel) to attract international... Read More

Bargain buy rocks on the sand

Australian import Rock To Road (Stryker) has proved a real bargain buy for owner Mr Mok Shing Fung with the chestnut winning his fourth race in Macau in Friday night’s Class 2, and running a new class record in the process. Ridden by the inform Eric Cheung, Rock To Road made it win number three... Read More

14 for Belardo

New first season sire winners Belardo  Haunui Farm shuttler Belardo (Lope De Vega), who will have his first southern hemisphere two-year-olds this season, sired his 14th individual winner on Sunday when Lenny Belardo (2 c ex Tina’s Spirit by Invincible Spirit) took out a handicap over 1200 metres at Pisa. Lenny Belardo got off the... Read More