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Gr.1-winning trainer Shaun Dwyer and his wife Geri will soon be based in Queensland after basing himself in Bendigo for the past 13 years. He has applied for 30 boxes and is set to enter a training partnership with their son Shaun Dwyer Jnr, who is currently training at Toowoomba. Dwyer, 62, enjoyed success in his time in Victoria, highlighted by dual Gr.1 placegetter Miss Leonidas and one-time G ...
Up and coming jockey Campbell Rawiller has planned his move from Victoria to Sydney later this month to link up with the Waterhouse-Adrian Bott stable. It was the same journey once taken by his Dad who started his riding career in Victoria but moved north in 2007 to kick-off what was to become a glittering working relationship with Waterhouse. Top jockey Nash Rawiller has won 26 Group Ones for Wa ...
Prince Faisal had ten million reasons to celebrate following the Saudi Cup in Riyadh after his homebred star Mishriff added the world's richest race to a record that already included the Prix du Jockey Club and the Prix Guillaume d'Ornano. The story contained within Mishriff's pedigree encapsulates an approach to racing and breeding that has brought the Prince untold success over the past four de ...
James Harron purchased a Written Tycoon colt at the recent Inglis Melbourne Premier for A$1.1 million. Furthermore, the colt was knocked down to his syndicate by delaying a media interview The colt was the fourth million-dollar lot ever sold by Written Tycoon, and the second most expensive colt, he is the fourth living foal out of Gybe, an ATC Gimcrack Stakes winner. The million-dollar milestone ...
Ciaron Maher believes the rise of the Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale is a sign of things to come for a Victorian breeding industry in the midst of a reinvigoration after the prominent trainer leaned on an international powerhouse in order to buy a Lord Kanaloa colt for $900,000 (£500,000/€579,000) on day two of the Melbourne auction. After a Written Tycoon colt made $1.1 million on Sunday ...
Tattersalls has just launched its catalogue for next months Craven Breeze Up Sale with 168 high-class juveniles featuring for a sale which comes with the attraction of the new £250,000 Craven Royal Ascot/Gr.1 Bonus. A £125,000 reward will be offered to the first Craven Breeze Up winner of any of the six 2YO races at Royal Ascot. An additional £125,000 bonus will also be paid to the first Craven B ...
A significant chapter in British breeding's history has drawn to a close with Cheveley Park Stud announcing that the brilliant Pivotal has been retired from covering duty at the age of 28. He stood a remarkable 24 consecutive seasons at the Newmarket operation, during which he developed into one of the most important stallions of the era. He boasts a stud record containing a mammoth 241 stakes pe ...
Leading French sire Slickly, who chased home the brilliant Dubai Millennium in the Prix Jacques le Marois at three has died at the age of 25. The son of Linamix was initially trained by Andre Fabre and struck in the Gr.3 Prix la Rochette at two, before wins in the Grand Prix de Paris and Gr.2 Prix Noailles at three. He was purchased by Godolphin after the Prix Jacques le Maroisand sent to Saeed b ...
Charlie Appleby and Godolphin enjoyed another highly productive day at the Dubai World Cup Carnival despite seeing their 2,000 Guineas contender Master Of The Seas suffer a surprise defeat behind stablemate Naval Crown on his reappearance in the Listed 1m1f Meydan Classic. Master Of The Seas, was making his first start since finishing a close fourth in the Gr.1 National Stakes at the Curragh last ...
With its schedule already as hamstrung by a winter storm as the racetrack itself, Oaklawn Park will cancel Thursday through Sunday’s racing slates, totalling four more missed days due to inclement weather. The track had already cancelled racing for last Friday through Monday, which had moved four more stakes races to the days that are newly cancelled, including the Southwest Stakes and the Razorb ...