Lady Of Honour is SW36 for No Nay Never winning the Twilight Glow Stakes (1400m) for 3yo fillies at Caulfield. Lady Of Honour led into the home straight then stayed on strongly to hold the challenge of Decent Raine (Dissident) to score well. It is the third win from four starts for Lady Of Honour,
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Private Eye is the fifth Gr1 winner for Al Maher landing the Epsom Handicap (1600m) at Randwick. A typically tight finish to one of Australia’s most competitive mile races with Private Eye finishing best to edge Aramayo (Poet’s Voice) and Dalasan (Dalakhani) after that pair had duelled over the final 200m. It is the third
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Terzetto is SW172 for Deep Impact winning Saturday’s Gr3 Lord Derby Challenge (1600m) at Nakayama. The four-year-old was worse than midfield passing halfway before gradually creeping closer before the home turn. Brought widest of all into the home straight Terzetto finished strongly to defeat Catedral (Heart’s Cry) by a length with Bom Servico (Daiwa Major)
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Stay Inside’s dominant victory in the Golden Slipper Stakes at Rosehill was further confirmation, as if we needed it, of the impact Danehill has had on the race since his first-crop raced in Australia in 1993. Not since Star Kingdom sired the first four winners of the race has a stallion had such an influence
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Stay Inside staked his claim as Australia’s leading two-year-old with a dominant score in Saturday’s Gr1 Golden Slipper Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill. Perfectly positioned in fourth place as Profiteer led to the home turn, Stay Inside was able to challenge unhindered early in the straight and quickened into the lead 200m out before drawing clear.
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We had an overwhelming response to our duplicating Danehill article and there was one question posed by several readers with its combination visible in two of the Group winners at Caulfield in Australia on Saturday. The question was how Sadler’s Wells had worked with Danehill and the simple answer was there are plenty of winning
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The runaway win by Profiteer in the recent Inglis Millennium race for juveniles was notable for several reasons. Apart from propelling him into conversation as a Golden Slipper Stakes contender, it also further fueled the commercial fires underneath his sire Capitalist ahead of the 2021 round of yearling sales. The win is noteworthy for the
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Isotope is SW7 for Deep Field winning the Mode Plate (1200m) for 3yo fillies at Doomben. Isotope enjoyed a trouble-free run, smothered away along the inside behind the leading group to the home turn where she was able to ease off heels three wide into the home straight and accelerate clear to win eased down
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Rock On Wood is the first Gr1 winner for Redwood winning Saturday’s Captain Cook Stakes (1600m) at Trentham. Forced to race wide in the early stages, jockey Ryan Elliot allowed Rock On Wood to balance up into the home straight and the six-year-old quickened into the lead 300m out and then held the challenge of
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Duplications of Danzig in pedigrees nowadays are relatively common however, there is one combination beginning to appear more frequently. Monday’s English Listed winner Bahrain Pride is by Kodiac and inbred to Danzig through Danehill and Green Desert. Kodiac is a Danehill half-brother to Green Desert’s Group 1 winner Invincible Spirit and has already displayed his
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