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Keeping Australia’s champion sire Snitzel at a fee of $165,000 - he stood for $220,000 in 2019 and 2020 - was the cause of much debate in the Arrowfield Stud office in recent weeks, but again Messara was keen to maintain a conservative approach with the farm’s roster. This season, Snitzel has sired ten stakes winners and had star New Zealand Gr.1-winning 2YO colt Sword Of State, Saturday’s Arrowf ...
Emerging Japanese sire Maurice (Screen Hero) and Gr.1-winning companion Admire Mars (Daiwa Major) will shuttle to Australia later this year as Arrowfield Stud returns to the Land of the Rising Sun in search of the magic outcross stallion for the country’s Danehill- (Danzig) dominated broodmare population. Arrowfield Stud yesterday confirmed that Maurice, whose first southern hemispherebred 2YO cr ...
Widden Stud Victoria launched officially with an open day at the Romsey farm on Sunday featuring a parade of stallions including newcomers Russian Camelot (IRE) and Doubtland as well as proven Group I sires Nicconi and Star Witness, who have transferred from the Hunter Valley. Melbourne Cup-winning trainer Danny O’Brien put the polish on former Champion Two and Three Year Old Star Witness, who ha ...
Breeders that go to Written Tycoon this spring at his new home at Yulong Stud may reap the rewards for years to come from his one-year stint at Arrowfield Stud in the Hunter Valley. Priced at $77,000 last year, Written Tycoon covered 199 mares from some of the best breeders in the country, which has been the case for a number of seasons now with owners of elite mares happy to send them to Victori ...
Australian Horse of the Year and five-time Gr.1 winner Dissident has been secured by Dr Kevin Pendergast to continue his stallion career at Riverdene Stud in the Riverina region of NSW. One of the leading 2, 3 and 4YO performers of the past decade, Dissident commenced his racing career as a Listed MRC Blue Diamond Preview winning juvenile and proceeded to win at Gr.1 level in his Classic season a ...
Auraria Stakes winner Tyche Goddess is set to follow on the traditional path to the $500,000 G1 Australasian Oaks (2000m) at Morphettville on May 1 after her winning performance on Saturday. The last horse to complete the double was Sopressa in 2018 and despite scoring at bolters odds, co-trainer Natalie Young is confident it was no flash in the pan performance. Her co-trainer confessed despite t ...
Western Australian trainers Sean and Jake Casey are already eyeing the Victorian Spring Carnival with a number of their horses. The partnership struck with good success in the autumn, claiming the Mornington Guineas with Dom To Shoot, while Laverrod won the Hareeba Stakes and the VOBIS Gold Sprint. Sean Casey told Racing.com Dom To Shoot is certain to return, while there are a number of other hor ...
Nature Strip will contest this year's Everest after trainer Chris Waller confirmed the star sprinter would take his stable's slot in the race. In October 2021, twelve of the fastest horses compete for A$15 million in prize money, making it the world's richest race on Turf. Waller reached an agreement with the horse's owners, that will see the three-time TJ Smith winning son of Nicconi attempt his ...
Gr.1 winner Charlatan continues to lead the way in the Top Thoroughbred Poll followed by two-time Eclipse Award winner Monomoy Girl, with champion filly Swiss Skydiver closing the gap slowly but surely after her victory in the Gr.1 Beholder Mile. Concert Tour earned his third win from as many career starts when he captured the Gr.2 Rebel Stakes and also advanced up to third in the National Thorou ...
Race favorite and 4YO Cafe Pharoah captured his first Gr.1 victory in this year’s February Stakes. The bay colt debuted claiming his first two career starts and went on to win the Unicorn Stakes (Gr.3, dirt, 1,600m) but failed to deliver in the following Japan Dirt Derby (dirt, 2,000m) where although sent off race favorite, he was beaten to seventh. Bouncing back and marking a win against older f ...