Three-time Group 1 winner sets new benchmark at $4.2 million while three others also reach seven figures By Tim Rowe on the Gold Coast Sunlight, a star on the track who was instrumental in launching her sire Zoustar (Northern Meteor) and been a life-changer for many of her all-female syndicate, yesterday set a new Magic... Read More

A Group 1 that should have been run two months earlier, a mare who was supposed to be in the breeding shed, an absent trainer and a jockey making the most of another Covid-19-inspired opportunity. The 2020 Tattersalls Gold Cup (Gr 1, 1m 2f) was unconventional in many respects, although not in its outcome. Magical... Read More

Churchill (Smart Missile) gave his Singapore Derby (Listed, 1800m) aspirations no harm with a display of outstanding resilience in yesterday’s $70,000 Class 3 Division 1 race over 1200 metres. That second Kranji win was highly reminiscent of his maiden win in a Class 4 event over 1400 metres second-up on February 28. That night, from... Read More

Star of the track to light up the Magic Millions ring on day one of National Sale Sunlight (Zoustar) could prove to be the most desirable and expensive mare to head to a southern hemisphere public auction in more than a decade with the three-time Group 1 winner considered a chance to crack the $3... Read More

The Queen may have missed her regular visit to Ascot last month, but the queen of the turf lit up the royal racecourse yesterday when Enable (Nathaniel) registered a history-making win in the King George and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (Gr 1, 1m 4f). In beating Sovereign (Galileo) by a cosy five and a half lengths,... Read More

Disruption to this breeze-up sales season from all directions has failed to alter the appetite for ready-to-run prospects and the trend continued as the swing drew to a close in Newmarket. The Tattersalls Ireland Goresbridge Sale tends to be more bread-and-butter than five-star fare and, after deciding to shift an already postponed event across from... Read More