‘We want to provide a market for these types of horses all year round’

Sheridan drawing inspiration from the Australasian online landscape to keep Tattersalls platform growing When Katherine Sheridan was appointed Tattersalls’ online sales executive she was determined to make buying bloodstock online as popular throughout Europe as it is in Australasia and that hard work is certainly beginning to pay off.  Having spent just shy of ten... Read More

Murphy’s law strikes again

Plenty to celebrate but nothing to take advantage of. That’s the outcome of a big Saturday for the Chitty family’s Haunui Farm. However, knowing the family, they will be delighted for all those who have enjoyed recent results. Haunui Farm has a loyal base of breeders’ support of their stallions over a long period of... Read More

No Australian return for Too Darn Hot 

Australia’s champion first-season sire elect will not shuttle to Darley’s Kelvinside base in 2024 Too Darn Hot (Dubawi), Australia’s champion first-season sire elect, will not return to Darley’s Kelvinside base in 2024.  The news will come as a blow to breeders who have booked their mares into the well-bred son of Dubawi (Dubai Millennium) ahead... Read More

Loving Gaby’s first foal lands trial

Just Like Gaby (Pierata), the first foal out of dual Group 1 winner Loving Gaby (I Am Invincible), produced a markedly better performance to land a 811-metre trial at Warwick Farm on Monday.  Trained by Ciaron Maher, who handled the career of her famous mother, the daughter of Yulong’s first-season sire Pierata (Pierro) finished a... Read More

Pierre Ng seizes upper hand in Hong Kong trainers’ title battle with Sha Tin double

Pierre Ng reclaimed the ascendancy in the rollercoaster tussle for the 2023/24 Hong Kong trainers’ championship with a crucial double at Sha Tin on Monday to edge two wins clear of Francis Lui. With only four meetings left in the season, Ng leads Lui 67-65 after Alexis Badel partnered Gangnam Star (Telperion) to victory in... Read More

Los Angeles hands O’Brien record-extending 16th Irish Derby

Ballydoyle maestro Aidan O’Brien once again showcased his training brilliance as he sent out Epsom Derby (Gr 1, 1m 4f) third Los Angeles (3 c Camelot – Frequential by Dansili) to go two places better in the Irish equivalent (Gr 1, 1m 4f) at the Curragh on Sunday, in what as a record-extending 16th success... Read More