With just a few weeks remaining of the 2019-20 Australian racing season, the top ten Australian-based sires on earnings have all surpassed the $10 million barrier and all but one – I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit) – will be represented at the two-day Inglis Australian Weanling Sale, scheduled for tomorrow and Thursday. In some cases,... Read More

New South Wales arm of breeding and racing empire undergoes significant restructure Aquis Farm, a three-state breeding and racing operation with an enormous bloodstock portfolio, which includes reigning Golden Slipper winner Farnan (Not A Single Doubt), has made the significant decision to relocate its NSW headquarters from the thoroughbred heartland of the Hunter Valley to... Read More

Flat queen Enable (Nathaniel) suffered her second consecutive defeat when she failed to reel in Godolphin’s Ghaiyyath (Dubawi) in yesterday’s Eclipse Stakes (Gr 1, 1m 2f) at Sandown. Heartbreakingly beaten when bidding for Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (Gr 1, 2400m) history in October, Enable lost little in defeat, especially as her trainer John Gosden... Read More

John Moore’s five-decade career in Hong Kong will come to an end in 10 days’ time but the handler hammered home a hat-trick of wins at Sha Tin yesterday to show that he’s not winding down just yet. Sunny Boy (Star Witness) set the ball rolling with an all-the-way win under Zac Purton; So We... Read More

Ryan lands $700,000 colt at Inglis Easter Round 2 sale at Riverside An I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit) colt from the same family as Winx (Street Cry) has become the headline act of a prevailing buyers’ market at Round 2 of the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, the first live auction to be held in... Read More

Just over an hour after Galileo’s (Sadler’s Wells) daughter Love took out the Oaks (Gr 1, 1m 4f), the stallion became the first since his own father in 2001 to sire the winner of the Classic double, as his son Serpentine ran away with the Derby (Gr 1, 1m 4f) at Epsom yesterday. In one... Read More