TBWA News
Amelia’s Jewel wins Horse of The Year Award
Amelia’s Jewel continued a memorable August for her owner-breeder Peter Walsh with a triumphant WA Racehorse of The Year Award at The Ritz-Carlton on Saturday evening. The daughter of Champion Haras de Bonneval sire Siyouni (Fr) was an unchallenged winner following an...
Black-type designs for Duchess
All American mare Duchess Of Gossip is bound for black-type company after completing a Belmont hat-trick for Geisel Park owner-breeder Eddie Rigg on Saturday. Dion Luciani trains Duchess Of Gossip for Rigg, Kevin Johnson and Simon Lill (Photo / Western Racepix) and...
Moorditj Boy – TBWA Winner of the Week
Moorditj Boy was in a race of his own winning the TABtouch Hcp (1200m) by four lengths from a well-beaten field at Belmont on Wednesday. The Hayden Ballantyne-trained 3yo jumped straight to the front at his second start and that’s the last they saw of him. The race...
Black-type first for Gingerbread Man
Yarradale Stud resident Gingerbread Man became the first WA-based stallion to sire a black-type winner in 2023-24 when Phanta landed Saturday’s LR Belmont Newmarket (1200m). Back in action following an explosive victory in the LR Bolton Sprint (1200m) last month, he...
Oakland Park Lords it with Playing God
Oakland Park owners Neville and Susan Duncan teamed up with trainers Ben and Dan Pearce for a winning double with Lord Vampi and Dun With The Blues at Northam on Thursday. Lord Vampi (Playing God) started deep in the red at $1.35 for the Motherland Maiden (1300m) and...
First WA-bred winner for Jimmy Choux
Choixway registered the first WA-bred win for Roselee Stud resident Jimmy Choux (NZ) at Northam on Thursday. The 3yo grey galloper was on debut for trainer Jim Taylor and camped outside Hot Nova (Safeguard) in the Mando Maiden (1000m). He got the better of the...
Snowdome leads winning charge by Rommel
Champion trainer Neville Parnham is marshalling his team for another premiership-winning season and he’s counting on Ridgeport Farm sire Rommel to provide his fair share of winners for the stable. So is Ridgeport Farm owner Santo Guagliardo who raced Rommel to a Group...
Starry Summer Heights for Williams Racing
Grant and Alana Williams have a Group 1 program planned for their Star Turn mare Alsephina and her stablemate Starry Heights is another potential black-type performer for the Ascot summer carnival. Starry Heights (Photo / Western Racepix) is also by Vinery Stud sire...
Wubin Gold – TBWA Winner of the Week
Ascot trainer Colin Webster and his wife Lyn have struck gold with their Shooting To Win 3yo Wubin Gold. The chestnut filly with a big white blaze was hard to miss in the Morley Growers Market Hcp (1000m) at Belmont on Wednesday. She is part-owned by Yarradale Stud’s...
Hokahey legs it to Sunshine State
Hokahey (War Chant) won the first-leg of an interstate double for Yarradale Stud at Eagle Farm on Saturday and a couple of hours later Red Fifty Three (Gingerbread Man) filled out the second at Belmont. Under a perfect ride by Sam Collett, Hokahey sat behind the pace...
Ginnivan a gangbuster by Universal Ruler
Scenic Lodge resident Universal Ruler was runner-up to Playing God among active stallions for the WA sires’ premiership in 2022-23 and he franked that form when Ginnivan blew his rivals away on debut at Belmont. Ginnivan was coming off a five-length barrier trial win...
Pinjarra double for Darling View’s Eladdair
Not many mares throw two winners at the one meeting but Eladdair lived up to her 'bred in the purple pedigree' at Pinjarra on Thursday. Eladdair (Elusive Quality) is owned by Darling View Thoroughbreds Director Clive Atwell and she kicked off with Prophet And Power...
