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A trotting mare conceived in Australia by a Swedish stallion from a Swedish mare, and who was foaled, broken in and originally trained in Victoria, won at her second start in New Zealand last Friday. It is the four-year-old Who’s Who mare Aldebaranmargareta, who came from worse than midfield with a rousing late rally to […]
The results of the recent Arqana Yearling Sale at Deauville, Normandy, France provided a massive boost for the leading Yabby Dam Farms’ frozen semen stallions Face Time Bourbon and Booster Winner. Face Time Bourbon, the dual Prix D’Amerique champion and regarded as the hottest young trotting sire in Europe today, topped the stallion averages (three […]
In a coup for breeders in NSW’s central west region it has been announced that Raging Bull will stand this season at Artistic Lodge, Blayney, of leading studmasters Jody Bryant and Cynthia Bourke. His service fee is a modest $1,650 including GST with multiple mare discounts and deals for on-farm mares. Raging Bull, who originally […]
A carefully planned harness racing breeding program devised more than 10 years ago is starting to come to fruition for Western Victorian breeder Lyndon Turner. Hailing from a beef cattle background, Turner ranks as the breeder of one of the State’s most outstanding juveniles in Cardigan Sniper, who won a heat of the APG Vicbred […]
The former New Zealand pacers Makorori (by Downbytheseaside) and Still Rollin (by Rock N Roll Heaven) posted new lifetime marks of 1:49.2 and 1:49.8 respectively winning at Plainridge Park on Monday (August 10). Meanwhile, a pair of Aussie breds in Horn Player (1:49.4), who was bred by Jake Stockton, of Wingate Farm, and Naturally Gifted […]
The New Zealand bred Acushla Machree (Vincent) and the South Australian bred Sweet Hayley Jane (Sweet Lou) both clocked new lifetime marks of 1:49.4 winning on the same card at Plainridge Park on Tuesday (August 4). Sweet Hayley Jane notched her ninth harness racing win for the year and Acushla Machree posted her fourth. ACUSHLA […]
A breeding plan hatched more than 20 years ago is finally starting to bring rich rewards for Mount Scobie (near Kyabram) dairy farmers and hobby harness breeders Phillip and Tracey Wade. “We raced a mare called Ceratophylla in a syndicate with Faye McEwan. She won 16 races. After she retired from racing we bought her […]
Swedish Starlet, a New Zealand bred daughter of Mach Three, hoisted a fresh lifetime mark of 1:49 coming from midfield to win the $25,000 Open Handicap at Plainridge Park on Tuesday (July 27). It was her fourth success for the year. SWEDISH STARLET N REPLAY The NSW bred gelding Humble closed strongly to win […]
After 35 years working in the banking sector, Melbourne breeder-owner Graeme Riley had no qualms about finding a suitable hobby when he retired in 2009. “I had raced a few horses while I was still working, but when I retired it was always breeding that was going to be my hobby,” Riley said. Riley has […]
In Range Tr 3, 1:51.8 ($793,037), a brilliant Stakes-winning grandson of Muscle Hill whose frozen semen is available to Australasian breeders for the first time this season from Yabby Dam Farms, Ballarat, had a red-letter day at The Meadowlands, New Jersey on Saturday night (August 1). The young stallion left the fastest winner of the […]
Five New Zealand bred pacers in Blaze On, Duke Of Cornwall, Golden Bay, Let’s N Joy and Franco Santana put up sub 1:50 winning miles in North America last week. Blaze On, who took a new lifetime mark of 1:49.6 at Hoosier Park, is a six-year-old Sweet Lou gelding bred by the late Charles Roberts. BLAZE ON REPLAY Golden Bay, who won in 1:49.8 on […]
The world champion Warrawee Needy 1:46.8 ($1.2 million), who stands at Yirribee Pacing Stud, Wagga (NSW) where Cattlewash heads a select sire list, is heading for his best season on record. As at July 28, Warrawee Needy has left 42 individual winners this season including nine three-year-old winners and they have banked $590,508 in stakemoney. […]
The Downbythseaside gelding Makorori posted his fifth straight success and earned a new speed badge of 1:52.2 when he captured the $17,000 feature at Plainridge Park on Thursday (July 16). MAKARORI REPLAY Alta Revelry, a New Zealand bred gelding by Sunshine Beach, led from end-to-end to notch his 33rd lifetime success in the $16,000 Open Handicap at Running Aces on Tuesday […]
Flaming Flutter, a dual Inter Dominion Final placegetter and one of the best bred entire sons of the champion sire Bettor’s Delight, was represented by his first North American winner when the three-year-old filly Unlimited won on debut at Monticello Raceway, New York last week. UNLIMITED REPLAY One of Flaming Flutter’s first small crop, the […]
The Somebeachsomewhere horse Soho Lanikai, who originally stood stud in Victoria, is to stand this season at Medowie Lodge, Newcastle, of one of NSW’s leading studmasters Darren Reay. The brilliant, young stallion – he was foaled in 2017 – is proving a great success with his first small crops racing. In his first season he […]
The 2024 Canadian 3YO Colt of the Year and North America Cup champion Nijinsky 3, 1:47.6 ($1,486,907) has joined the stallion strength at Yirribee Pacing Stud, Wagga for the coming season. “We are extremely excited to be standing Nijinsky at Yirribee. He has outstanding credentials as a commercial stallion and will certainly meet the demand […]
Melbourne breeder and financial advisor Harvey Kaplan has been a key figure in the standardbred breeding industry in Australia and New Zealand for more than two decades. The list of top flight performers he’s bred reads like a classics date book. They include the Miracle Mile winner Baby Bling, the A. G. Hunter Cup and […]
The What The Hill gelding Lovemeto, who was bred, raised and sold by Breckon Farms, was a very impressive winner of a second round heat of the Inter Dominion Trotting Championship at Albion Park on Saturday (July 11). Forced to race without cover for the first lap, the six-year-old speared to the front with a […]
Six Australian and New Zealand bred pacers put up 1:50 winning miles in North America last week including five with new lifetime marks. Heading the charge were the ex-Kiwi pair Jordy and Dalton Shard, who clocked 1:48.6 and 1:48.8 respectively winning $30,000 races at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Saturday (July 4). Jordy, an eight-year-old Bettor’s Delight gelding, was bred by the Canterbury-based […]
The champion racehorse and sire Always B Miki is returning to Alabar Bloodstock for the coming season after spending last year on the sidelines owing to reoccurrence of a leg injury. He will bolster the stallion roster at the Koyuga-based stud to 12. The leading sire of Group 1 winners in Australia for the last […]
A pair of Breckon Farms bred and raised trotters in Kiss My Pixel and Ferdinand both won on the same card at Cambridge Raceway on Friday (July 3). Kiss My Pixel sat parked for the last lap before careering away to win a heat of the Silk Road Series. The Father Patrick mare has now won three races and just […]
Six ANZAC bred pacers clocked sub 1:50 winning miles in North America last week. The sextet included the Australian breds Soho Spectre, a winner at Plainridge Park in a new lifetime mark of 1:48.4 at Plainridge Park, Madrid, who won in a fresh career record of 1:49.4 at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Friday (June 27) and Uncle Shank, a winner in 1:49.4 at Mohawk […]
No less than four New Zealand bred pacers took 1:50 harness racing records at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Saturday night (June 20). The quartet were Ultimate Desbi, Christopher Dance, Dalton Shard and Carrera Sunset. Naturally Gift, a six-year-old gelding bred by Benstud Standardbreds, clocked 1:50 winning a $16,000 race at Hoosier Park on Friday (June […]
Octogenarian Bet Bet breeder-owner-trainer Ray Cross is enjoying a purple patch with his small but select team of harness racing squaregaiters at the moment. The former Queenslander landed four winners in the space of just nine days with Jessicas Story at Melton, the three-year-old Itz Classic Gold and Romantic Nina at Maryborough and Nedza Thriller […]
