Tough stayer Steel Prince likely to get shot at second Melbourne Cup
Freedmans’ seven-year-old holds off fellow imports to take out the Geelong Cup Steel Prince (Nathaniel), a horse identified as a three-year-old in Ireland by agent Justin Bahen, will be given his chance to run in a second Melbourne Cup (Gr 1, 3200m) after downing two more recent European arrivals in the $400,000 Geelong Cup (Gr... Read More
Rare Adlerflug offering leads the way at Arqana on day two of October Sale
Haras de Bourgeauville scored a notable success on day two of the remodelled Arqana October Yearling Sale as a son of Adlerflug (In The Wings) topped trade when secured at €85,000 (approx. AUD$142,175) by Federico Barberini. The Gestut Schlenderhan flagbearer is not a stallion whose offspring are offered at auction too frequently outside of Germany... Read More
Classique Legend
It took Racing To Win four-and-a-half years to earn $3.7 million in prize–money, through a stellar career in which the gelding won five Group 1s – including Randwick’s Big Mile double the year he was the nation’s champion male three-year-old. Last Saturday at Randwick, it took Classique Legend 68-and-a-half seconds to win almost double that... Read More
Siyouni steals the show in Deauville as €525,000 colt tops October Sale opener
The celebrations in Normandy following the victory of Sottsass (Siyouni) in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (Gr 1, 2400m) have barely died down but the combination of his sire Siyouni (Pivotal) and his breeder, Ecurie des Monceaux, proved irresistible on day one of the Arqana October Yearling Sale on Monday. Monceaux-consigned colts by the... Read More
Garnet Bougoure – multiple Classic winner England and Ireland
Garnet “Garnie” Bougoure (3 March 1923 – 22 November 2008) is a glaring omission from Australian racing’s Hall of Fame. Even more surprising is that he is yet to be inducted, alongside his brother-in-law George Moore, into his home state Queensland’s Hall of Fame. Indeed, there is an argument his extended family should have a... Read More
Mehmas enters the record books with 38th European first-crop winner
Tally-Ho Stud stallion is also responsible for Group 1 hero Supremacy Mehmas (Acclamation) etched his name into the history books on Monday when the Tally-Ho Stud stallion became the most successful European first-season sire in history with 38 individual two-year-old winners. Fittingly it was Good Listener – trained by Richard Hannon, who also oversaw Mehmas’s... Read More