TBWA News
Stewarts reject offers for Swear To God
Playing God can put the icing on the cake of a calendar month to remember at Ascot on Saturday. The Darling View Thoroughbreds champion has several winning chances headed by the Neville Parnham-trained Pray Again & Success Play (Race 3) and Pambella (Race 4). The...
Timely first-up win for Sessions
Oakland Park sire Sessions started April with a double at Pinjarra and he kept up the winning momentum with Timely Outburst at Ascot last Saturday. Adam Durrant trains his Pinjarra winners Tales of Manhattan & Garage Days and Stephen Miller puts the polish on...
Scenic Lodge sets the bar in Swan Valley
Last Saturday’s Ascot meeting commenced with a treble by Playing God and it closed with a hat-trick from Scenic Lodge. They’ve gone hand-in-hand since Playing God (Blackfriars) was foaled at the Muchea nursery on the 7th of November 2007. That was a day after...
Final 3yo crop firing for Blackfriars
Blackfriars sired his 7th winner in week when Above The Peg and Brother Paddy completed a running double at Ascot on Wednesday. Earlier this month, the Scenic Lodge legend broke through $3 million in progeny prizemoney this season and he’s on track to extend a...
War Chant in the Mood at Ascot
Yarradale Stud sire War Chant (USA) and apprentice Keshaw Dhurun were in a winning mood at Ascot on Saturday when they combined to land a double with Express Time and Mood Swings. Mood Swings helped Dhurun celebrate 100 career wins when he scored a barrier-to box...
Farm-fresh the difference for Downforce
Downforce could be forgiven for thinking he’s been on a carousel this season but that didn’t stop him chiming in to win again on Easter Saturday. The Snippetson sprinter-miler (Photo: Western Racepix) has raced 18 times since the start of the season and Laqdar Ramoly...
All Banter banks black-type at Oakbank
All Banter doubled her black-type record with a superb victory in the LR Adelaide Hills Railway Stakes (1100m) at Oakbank on Saturday. The daughter of former Darling View Thoroughbreds sire I’m All The Talk will now be pointed towards the Group 1 Robert Sangster...
Interstate double for Mogumber Park
Star colt Snowdome has sent Mogumber Park stallion Rommel to the top of the WA second-season premiership after winning the G3 WA Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) in a canter on Easter Saturday. Snowdome was coming off a successful seven-day break at Ascot to bank a major...
Easy does it for Eason in Hong Kong
Eason has confirmed himself as a sprinter on the rise for Gold Front Thoroughbreds in Hong Kong Bred and sold by Gold Front owners Alan & Sue Olive for $80,000 as a yearling, Eason has won three times in six starts and been runner-up in the other three for trainer...
Colossal debut win for Mt Hallowell Stud
Mt Hallowell Stud owner Craig Thompson launched the career of another exciting prospect when his Snitzel colt Colossal was an eye-catching winner at Pinjarra on Wednesday. Colossal accelerated through a gap to nail the Great Northern Supercrisp Maiden (1200m) as a...
Express Time too tough at Ascot
Neville Parnham’s grey mare Express Time is racing in career-best form this campaign and her sire War Chant (USA) is also in the midst of a winning run leading into Easter. Express Time returned from a spring spell in January and her latest victory at Ascot on...
Sky’s the limit for Alaskan God
The sky’s the limit for promising stayer Alaskan God following his explosive victory in the G2 WATC Derby (2400m) at Ascot. Trainer Dan Morton knows how fit a horse for the big stage and they don’t come any bigger than the race that stops a nation. “After we bought...
