Leopardstown Trial Stakes winner Ten Year Ticket is SW134 for Rock Of Gibraltar. Ten Year Ticket has won both his races and is a half-brother to four winners including Gr3 Prix Seine-et-Oise winner Snazzy Jazzy (Red Clubs) and Gr3 Prix Texanita winner Ross Castle (Bushranger). Their dam Bulrushes (Byron) was unraced and a half-sister to
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Gr3 Leopardstown Fillies Trial Stakes winner Love Locket is SW23 from 210 runners for No Nay Never. A half-sister to English Listed winner Raakib Alhawa (Kingman), Love Locket made €52,000 as a weanling at the Goffs November sale before fetching €700,000 one year later at the Goffs Orby sale. The granddam Treasure The Lady won
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Thursday’s Göddert Sybrecht Erinnerungsrennen winner at Hannover Sunny Queen is SW 28 for Camelot. A half-sister to German Listed winner Suestado (Darshaan), Sunny Queen is one of five winners left by four-time German winner Suivi. Suivi is a half-sister to Gr2 Grosser Mercedes-Benz at Baden-Baden winner Simoun (Monsun) as well as Listed winners Shining (Surumu),
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Gr3 South Australian Fillies Classic (2500m) at Morphettville winner Realm Of Flowers in the 25th stakes winner for So You Think. Her dam Astral Flower (Kalanisi) was placed in Great Britain and is a half-sister to Gr.1 Northern Dancer Turf Stakes winner at Woodbine Redwood (High Chaparral). The third-dam Jolypha (Lyphard) won the Gr1 Prix
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Depending on your viewpoint, South Australian Derby Russian Camelot is the most exciting horse in Australia. He quite probably is and while he still has to progress further if he is to reach the heights many are predicting, the northern hemisphere bred son of Camelot is already a Group 1 winner at just his fifth
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Adelaide Guineas (1600m) at Morphettville winner Game Keeper is SW157 for Fastnet Rock. Inbred 3×4 to Danzig, Game Keeper is a half-brother to three winners including Special Favour (General Nediym), the dam of Gr1 Queensland Derby winner Mr Quickie (Shamus Award). His dam My Tusker (Volksraad) won three races at Gr2 level including the Championship
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Once upon a time the VRC St Leger was a race of importance on the Australian calendar. Past winners include Phar Lap, Tulloch, Comic Court, Gurners Lane, So Called etc etc, we could go on. Last run at Group 3 level in 2004 it is now at Listed level and while it’s probably fair to
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Coolmore has announced it will shuttle first-season stallions Calyx and Magna Grecia to Australia for the 2020 season. Magna Grecia and Calyx both stood their first season at €22,500 when standing at Coolmore in Ireland this year. Magna Grecia (pictured) will be the seventh son of Invincible Spirit to stand at stud in Australia. Winner
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Dreamforce upset his more fancied rivals to land the Gr1 George Ryder Stakes (1500m) on a heavy track at Rosehill. Dreamforce (pictured) is the 39th Gr.1 winner for Fastnet Rock who also has this year’s New Zealand Derby winner Sherwood Forest. Fastnet Rock (Danehill) has worked with a range of pedigrees and has three Group
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Group 3 Matamata Slipper Stakes winner Need I Say More is the 21st stakes winner for No Nay Never and the first from his first southern hemisphere crops. Need I Say More was purchased by Te Akau boss David Ellis for $130,000 from the Kilgravin Lodge draft at the 2019 National Yearling Sale, Need I
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