Perfect Start For Holy Roman Emperor The high expectations held for the first crop by Holy Roman Emperor seem well founded after he produced the winner of Ireland's first juvenile race of the season at the Curragh on Sunday.
Snitzel Colt Leads Gold Coast Sale Given the success he is enjoying with his first crop of runners, it came as no sueprise to see a colt by leading first season sire Snitzel top the first session of the 2010 Magic Millions QTIS 600 Yearling Sale at the Gold Coast on Sunday.
Big Day For Scone Graduates Graduates of the Scone Select Yearling Sale took centre stage on Saturday with a stakes treble for the country sale highlighted by the win by Small Minds in the G1 Australasian Oaks at Morphettville.
Danehill Era Coming To An End Australian Cup winner Zipping is likely to be the last Australian sired Group One winner by record setting pioneer shuttle sire Danehill.
South Island Sale Date Change New Zealand Bloodstock has brought forward the 2010 South Island Sale of 2YOs by a week to Friday August 6 to coincide it with the All Blacks-Wallabies rugby test in Christchurch on the same weekend.
Volksraad Enjoying Another Big Season Brilliant Volksraad filly Mexican Rose became her sire's seventh individual stakes winner for the season in the G3 Merlion Trophy in Singapore on March 12.
Chaparella First For High Chaparral Wingatui-based filly Chaparella came from the clouds to land the Listed New Zealand Bloodstock Insurance Stakes at her home track on Saturday, a win which sees make her a current joint leader of the NZB Southern Filly of the Year Series.
2. (0) VELOCITEA 4M (VOLKSRAAD (GB) - CAT SHMEA (NZ)) Breed by Mrs S L Frost & Mrs R A Ramage
3. (0) SISTER MADLY 3F (REDOUTE'S CHOICE (AUS) - JADE TIARA (AUS)) Breed by Mr IK Smith, NSW
Schweppes Oaks
20 March 2010 MORP (G/2006m)
1. (0) SMALL MINDS 3F (CANNY LAD (AUS) - PRINCESS MARIGOLD (AUS)) Breed by Mr DR Casson, NSW
2. (0) NO EVIDENCE NEEDED 3F (SHAMARDAL (USA) - GENEROSA (NZ)) Breed by Mr JB Cummings, Mr B Halcombe, Mr T Kostos, Mr M Alexeeff, Mr L Smith, Dato Tan Chin Nam, NSW
Redoute's Choice's progeny finished with a median Timeform figure of 85, making him the top stallion in 2008-09 (for stallions with progeny 4 years and older).
Filling second place was the legendary Danehill, whose progeny are slowly setting off into retirement, but still showed enough for the great sire to figure in this list.
Elusive Quality, who is now an absentee on the Darley Australia shuttle, is an interesting inclusion on the list, drawing level with Danehill with a figure of 84 fr...
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Almost 19% of Redoute's Choice's progeny attained a triple figure Timeform rating in Australia or New Zealand last year.
Encosta De Lago notched the same figure, but with more runners. He did however top Redoute's Choice in terms of his top 10 runners last season, which averaged 120, as opposed to Redoute's Choice's 116.
Third on the list was Comma...
Harry Perks - Shamoline Warrior Breeder - Audio Interview Dehere mare Picholine will attempt to emulate Champion US producer Better Than Honour (dam of consecutive Belmont Stakes winners Jazil and Rags To Riches) this Saturday when Shamoline Warrior aims to give her-back-to-back Victoria Derby wins, following Rebel Raider last year. Nathan Exelby spoke to Harry Perks of Toorak Park Stud, breeder of both horses.
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Perfect Start For Holy Roman Emperor
The high expectations held for the first crop by Holy Roman Emperor seem well founded after he produced the winner of Ireland's first juvenile race of the season at the Curragh on Sunday.
Brilliant Volksraad filly Mexican Rose became her sire's seventh individual stakes winner for the season in the G3 Merlion Trophy in Singapore on March 12.
Harry Perks - Shamoline Warrior Breeder - Audio Interview
Dehere mare Picholine will attempt to emulate Champion US producer Better Than Honour (dam of consecutive Belmont Stakes winners Jazil and Rags To Riches) this Saturday when Shamoline Warrior aims to give her-back-to-back Victoria Derby wins, following Rebel Raider last year. Nathan Exelby spoke to Harry Perks of Toorak Park Stud, breeder of both horses.
The progeny of Coolmore owned stallions enjoyed an almost incomprehensible level...
Arrowfield's Redoute's Choice finished atop the Racing & Sports Timeform charts ...
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The second session of the Ocala March Sale of 2YOs was led by More Than Ready fi...
