Timeform Sires Launched Racing & Sports have this week launched their Timeform Sire tables, bringing a new form of stallion analysis to Australian racing and breeding.
Purrealist Competition Winner Racing & Sports would like to thank readers for the wonderful response to the 'Free Service to Purrealist' competition, which was won by NSW entrant David Quinane.
Aichi Continues Strategic Flyer Aichi became the first horse to frank the strength of the form around the Golden Rose when continuing a great start for his sire Strategic this season in taking Saturday's G3 Danehill Stakes.
No Doubts About Debut Juvenile Winner Redoute's Choice gained his first win as a grandsire when Not A Single Doubt's son Regal Flame scored by seven lengths at Wanganui in New Zealand on Saturday.
Waikato Wins Jumbo Jet Karaka Premier Sale graduate Waikato won his 11th race on Friday night in Singapore, with a gutsy run to win the Listed Jumbo Jet Trophy (1400m).
Rockdale Wins Again With hardly a race meeting going by without an NZB Ready to Run Sale graduate boasting the Sale's merits, it was promising three-year-old Rockdale who continued the success on Saturday, leading throughout the QTC Hanrickcurran Handicap (1400m) to score easily against the older horses at Eagle Farm.
First Karaka Million Money On the Board The first juvenile race of the new season kicked off the Karaka Million contest in fine style on Saturday, with two Karaka Million eligible youngsters providing the quinella.
The answer is much less than what it would cost to breed the same horses in 2009!
Of the 45 individual Group 1 winners last season, the total service fees involved came to a total of $1.3million.
This represents an average of just over $29,000.
The fees ranged from a starting price of $2500 to a top of $150,000.
Of those successful Group 1 sires from the 2007-08 racing season, 27 of them will line up for duty in Australia and New Zealand again in 2008.
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Encosta De Lago and More Than Ready, fittingly first and second on the Australian General Sires List this season, are the only two sires to have dual $1million earners in Australia this season.
Encosta's season earning topped $10million for the very first time, spearheaded by the Group 1 winners Sirmione and Princess Coup.
Sirmione rose to be one of Australia's premier Group 1 weight-for-age performers this past season, taking out both the Australian Cup and Mackinnon Stakes at the highe...