17 April 2023
Rommel will transfer from Mogumber Park in Bullsbrook to Ridgeport Farm in Waroona for the 2023 breeding season. The 11-year-old son of Commands was a Group 2 winner of the 2014 WA Guineas (1600m) and has sired two Stakes winners in his first three crops – Pixie...
17 April 2023
Through no fault of her own, Gingerbread Man mare Okay To Pay had been on a 10-run losing streak before scoring a head-bobbing victory in the Freeway Ford Hcp (1000m) on Friday evening at Cranbourne The Phillip Stokes-trained sprinter landed in front and kept the...
17 April 2023
Danube River doesn’t look like reaching her high-water mark anytime soon given the ease of her victory in the Dr Emma Vidler Hcp (1190m) on Thursday. Starting an odds-on favourite at Narrogin, the Thorn Dancer (NZ) filly unleashed a winning sprint when let loose by...
13 April 2023
It’s a tough task for last-start winners to come off a seven-day break and win the G2 Karrakatta Plate (1200m) but it’s not beyond Snippetson filly Shell Bell. The last horse to double-up on a quick turnaround was Diffraction (Spectrum) in 2003. He was the middle-leg...
12 April 2023
Sneaky Fox has taken a clear lead for Great Southern Horse of the Year on the back of another tough victory at Albany on Easter Sunday. The Gingerbread Man gelding took the field up to runaway leader Morgs Freeman (Playing God) before registering his fifth win of the...
11 April 2023
Gold Front Thoroughbreds claimed its first classic success during a week to remember when Awesome John won the G2 WATC Derby (2400m) at Ascot on Saturday. Awesome John carries the Gold Front GFB brand and he had been placed in the G2 Tulloch Stakes (2000m) at Rosehill...
11 April 2023
Universal Ruler has taken the lead among WA stallions on the 3yo winners (14) and wins (25) tables following an extraordinary Easter. The Scenic Lodge sire now heads both categories from Playing God (12 – 22), Demerit (12 – 17) and Oratorio (12 –...
11 April 2023
Darling View Thoroughbreds stallion Playing God stretched his lead at the top of the WA sires’ premiership to more than $1 million over Easter with Ex Sport Man and Cobbanco leading the way at Ascot. Playing God ($3,701,589) has built a healthy margin over Trade Fair...
11 April 2023
Quality colt Snowdome is set for another profitable preparation after scoring second-up in the Quayclean Hcp (1000m) at Ascot on Easter Saturday. The Rommel 3yo had won the G3 WA Sires Produce Stakes (1400m) and Perth 3YO Classic (1000m) last year for a partnership...
11 April 2023
Colin Webster reached the summit in a 50-year training career when Trix Of The Trade claimed the Group 1 Railway Stakes (1600m) earlier this season and those same yellow and brown silks were back in the winning enclosure at Ascot on Wednesday. His Oratorio 3yo Juan...
7 April 2023
All American continues to hold the fort at Geisel Park while the news cycle has been centred on the arrival of new stallion Aysar and its second-season sire Manhattan Rain. His recent 3yo provincial winners Mack Mack and Work Home Front are both on track to make the...
6 April 2023
Oakland Park Stud owners Neville and Susan Duncan are no strangers to success in the Eastern States and their first foray as vendors to the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale generated another ground-breaking result with a Blue Point (Ire) colt that made $600,000. Catalogued...