However, the virtue of patience reaped its just rewards last week with five days of good-quality and informative action at Newmarket and Newbury and a number of horses caught the eye with a view to the Australian spring, not least the Richard Hannon-trained Danehill Kodiac (Kodiac), who finished second in the John Porter Stakes (Gr... Read More

“I acknowledge there’s things we can do better and remain happy to continue the Premier review process with our vendors but I don’t think there’s cause for panic after this year’s Premier Sale which had a marginal decline in clearance and average after a sustained period of year on year growth. “I do not see... Read More

The Wendy Kelly-trained filly Vitani (Animal Kingdom) followed seconds at her first two starts to score really impressively here. She began well and was eased to settle well in fourth place, behind a good tempo. She improved on straightening, challenged approaching the 100 metre mark and went on to record a three and a quarter... Read More

Not beaten in a race since 28 March, 2015, Saturday’s triumph was her 25th successive win so Winx’s turn of foot will come as no surprise, but her second Queen Elizabeth Stakes-winning performance on the watch was so good it deserves highlighting. Ridden patiently by Hugh Bowman, Winx was conceding the leaders about ten lengths... Read More

The numbers do suggest she may well be the best of the past 50 years, which happens to be within my memory span. And the numbers, at least cursorily, have her ranked very highly all-time. And, by the way, this is a bit of fun. I would be be delighted by critique but not abuse.... Read More

Her time of 2:27.21 easily broke the previous record of 2:28.80 set by Serenade Rose (Stravinsky) in 2006 but since then the Australian Oaks has mostly been run on rain affected tracks. Coming from well back in the field, Unforgotten finished powerfully in the home straight to catch the front-running Hiyaam (High Chaparral) in the... Read More