First foal by Geisel Park stallion Aysar

First foal by Geisel Park stallion Aysar

The first reported foal by Geisel Park sire Aysar has arrived at Gold Front Thoroughbreds. Aysar covered 89 mares in his first book at Geisel Park last year and the colt from Lady Sass (Unencumbered) was born on Sunday night.  His dam doubled up at Ascot in February...
Safe Satyr – TBWA Winner of the Week

Safe Satyr – TBWA Winner of the Week

Safe Satyr took the length of the straight to nail the Glenroy Chaff Hcp (1000m) at Belmont last Wednesday but take nothing away from the talented 2yo son of Safeguard. Stewards reported he veered outwards over the concluding stages and nearly threw away prizemoney...
Black-type a No Brainer for Yarradale

Black-type a No Brainer for Yarradale

No Brainer is bred to be a black-type galloper and he’s shown black-type potential with an unbeaten start to his career at Bunbury and Belmont. Bred and sold by Yarradale Stud for $110,000 at the 2022 Perth Magic Millions, he won first-up in the south-west a fortnight...
Feels Playful sold to Geisel Park

Feels Playful sold to Geisel Park

Geisel Park has purchased Playing God mare Feels Playful for $80,000 at the Inglis Digital July (Late) Sale that closed on Wednesday. A Listed winner of the 2023 Challenge Stakes (1500m) at Ascot, she was offered as a breeding proposition by her owners who banked...
Radio gives a voice to WA Studmasters

Radio gives a voice to WA Studmasters

The first foals of the season are just around the corner and so is the start of the serving season with four new stallions covering their initial books in Western Australia. Regrettably, our industry has been abandoned by Perth’s mainstream print media since the...
Extreme Love – TBWA Winner of the Week

Extreme Love – TBWA Winner of the Week

Extreme Love was a first-up maiden winner at Bunbury earlier this month and she was good enough to step straight into a Class 3 and win again with Willie Pike taking over at Northam on Thursday. Far from being overawed in the AFGRI Precision Hcp (1100m), she came out...
War Chant legacy lives on at Yarradale

War Chant legacy lives on at Yarradale

Group 1 racehorse and sire War Chant (USA) has left a lasting legacy from his years at Three Chimneys Farm in Kentucky and Yarradale Stud in WA. War Chant (Danzig), who died aged 27 in April, is the damsire of over 500 individual winners worldwide and among the best...
Weeraechoux reaching for the stars in Perth

Weeraechoux reaching for the stars in Perth

Former Roselee Park stallion Jimmy Choux (NZ) sired his 6th Stakes winner when Weeraechoux got the better of odds-on favourite Petrouchka in the LR Belmont Classic (2200m) on Saturday. Chris Parnham sent Weeraechoux past front-runner The Candy Kid (Sessions) into the...
Pateman’s four of a kind by Playing God

Pateman’s four of a kind by Playing God

Neville Parnham has built an unrivalled record with Playing God and this week’s profile on Northam winner Champeze underlined his rapport with the breed. Another trainer with an excellent Playing God strike-rate is Mitch Pateman.  He has prepared four individual...
Sheila sends All American to Seventh Heaven

Sheila sends All American to Seventh Heaven

All American sired his 7th winner in 7 days on Thursday when Sheeza Sheila completed a massive week for the Geisel Park sire at Northam. Sheeza Sheila was probably the pick of them and can keep improving off a two-length victory in the Avonwest Transport Maiden...
Easy for Champeze in Avon Valley

Easy for Champeze in Avon Valley

Neville Parnham and Playing God notched their latest win in tandem with well-bred filly Champeze at Northam on Thursday. Champeze went out a $2.60 favourite and made the most of a cosy run in transit to score a first-up victory in the Debortoli Family Winemakers...
Silver lining off stacked pack at Pinjarra

Silver lining off stacked pack at Pinjarra

Yarradale Stud graduate Little Silver made the most of a slow tempo to stave off the late challenge of odds-on favourite Kings Salute to win the TABtouch Hcp (1500m) at Pinjarra on Wednesday. Longshot Mong Khan and 3kg claimer Chanel Cooper stacked them up and Paul...