Avonallo (NZ)
Avonallo (NZ) 2 c Belardo – Real Angel by O’Reilly O: C A Rutten & Little Avondale Trust B: Little Avondale Trust T: Jamie Richards S: 2020 NZB National Yearling Sale V: Little Avondale Stud P: Chris Rutten Bloodstock, NZ$30,000 W: Listed Welcome Stakes, 1000m, November 14, Riccarton The debut victory of Avonallo (2 c... Read More
New Zealand Bloodstock savours ‘remarkable’ Ready to Run Sale
$700,000 Savabeel two-year-old takes sale day honours late on final day at Karaka The undoubted success of this week’s New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale, which was capped with a record late-session $700,000 Savabeel (Zabeel) colt and five other lots breaking the $300,000 mark yesterday, has given the company immense confidence heading into 2021.... Read More
NZB delighted as internationals pounce on day one of Ready to Run Sale
There was an air of confidence in the lead-up to day one of the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale but company figureheads were reluctant to make it public in case the optimism failed to eventuate but the international market’s appetite for stock was certainly evident in yesterday’s opening session of the two-year-old auction.... Read More
Borges edges closer to LONGINES IJC berth, Callan keeps on rolling
Vagner Borges edged closer to a berth in next month’s LONGINES International Jockeys’ Championship with his 11th win this term thanks to a sweeping success aboard Sunshine Warrior (Pierro) in the Class 2 Cheung Hong Handicap (1650m) to seal a Tony Cruz treble at Happy Valley on Wednesday, 18 November. With the LONGINES IJC featuring... Read More
It’s time to act to help breeding heavyweights in fight against mine
The Australian racing and breeding industry, so often in competition with each other and berated for its constant internal division, must once again unite for the greater good to immediately lobby against a Hunter Valley mining application which threatens prime agricultural land. Coolmore and Godolphin, the biggest players in the world of thoroughbreds, have the... Read More
Hindaam
In racing and breeding, sometimes champagne and caviar can come disguised as flat beer and sardines, with one person’s poison morphing into another person’s meat. In 2013, Gai Waterhouse and James Harron Bloodstock shelled out half a million dollars for a well-bred yearling – by Fastnet Rock out of Legally Bay. She was a bay,... Read More