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Description We have raised the bar yet again with this sensational colt by out and out champion sire SAVABEEL. This colt is easily our most exciting purchase to date, and we are proud to be able to offer shares in him to you. He is out of the stakes winning mare MAGIC DANCER, who was a talented juvenile that won the G3 Taranaki 2YO Classic. She is a daughter of the multiple black-type winner Dazzling Belle and comes from the family of the G3 Frank Packer Plate winner Kinane. Magic Dancer has al...

Russian Camelot will stand at stud in the New South Wales Hunter Valley.

1:00PM, APR 13 2021 Dual Group 1-winning stallion prospect Russian Camelot, the European-bred entire whose promising racetrack career down under was prematurely ended due to injury, will remain in Australia. The lightly raced son of Camelot had drawn international interest from stallion operations, but the four-year-old’s principal owner John Wheeler has revealed that Russian Camelot would not be heading overseas. A stud deal for the former Danny O’Brien-trained Russian Camelot, la...

ROTHSHADOW collected her maiden win in an upset today at Ipswich. The $21 chance was well off the market but found her form to claim the 1100m QTIS three-year-old maiden plate. Ipswich winner Rothshadow, ridden by Michael Hellyer. Picture: Claire Power Trained by Gary Doughty on the Gold Coast, the filly had a few trials before the debut start. Rothshadow showed she has potential on the turf despite taking a step backwards on jumping. Doughty said she was flat around the 300m mark but kn...

  “I had things and issues to sort out in my life and normally you don’t take a holiday unless it’s an enforced holiday, probably like later on this afternoon but that’s the way it goes,” Prebble said. Prebble said he had been slowly clawing his way back into the riding ranks, working closely with trainers Mike Moroney (Wisaka) and   “I am really happy in myself and the way things are going and enjoying riding for Mike (Moroney) and Paul (Preusker) a lot and working in closely wi...

Horse racing: Concert Hall earns Sydney shot 5 Apr, 2021 08:56 PM 3 minutes to read Concert Hall has had a roller-coaster year so far. Photo / Trish Dunell NZ Herald The forgotten Kiwi raider on the rich Sydney autumn carnival is about to get some high-powered help in her bid to win the Sydney Cup. Concert Hall has had a crazy 2021, including missing a key race in February after she got away at the barriers and went on a tour of the suburbs of New Plymouth, including galloping through a playgr...

Link to Share Cox Plate winner Sir Dragonet won his second Group 1 race on Australian soil at Rosehill on Saturday, claiming a decisive victory in the $1.5 million Group 1 KIA Tancred Stakes (2400m). Australias only top-level weight-for-age contest over 2400 metres saw Sir Dragonet, formerly trained by Aidan OBrien, easily dispatch his rivals where several market leaders failed to perform to expectations. Ridden by Glen Boss, Sir Dragonet ($5.50 favourite) defeated 96-handicap-rated Dundeel mar...

Racing: Melody Belle passed fit but struggling ahead of A$1.5 million Tancred Stakes 2 Apr, 2021 11:00 AM 3 minutes to read Melody Belle. Photo / Race Images NZ Herald By: Michael Guerin One of the curses of Melody Belles career has returned "at a less than ideal time" heading into todays A$1.5 million Tancred Stakes in Sydney. That is how trainer Jamie Richards describes the 14-time Group 1 winner tying up after trackwork on Wednesday, just days out from her latest Group 1 target. Melody Belle...

Trent Busuttin has had almost 2500 runners in Australia yet two of his three Group 1 winners have come from just 59 starters in the New South Wales. The Victorian-based trainer returns to Rosehill on Saturday with Mirage Dancer chasing another major race success $1.5 million Tancred Stakes (2400m) at Rosehill. Busuttin trains in partnership with Natalie Young and the pair combined to win The Metropolitan with the imported stayer last spring. The former Kiwi conditioner believes the Frankel enti...

Melody Belle no certainty to start in G1 Tancred Stakes at Rosehill Melody Belle no certainty to start in G1 Tancred Stakes by Ray Thomas Melody Belle is no certainty to start in the Tancred Image: Getty Trainer Jamie Richards remains optimistic champion mare Melody Belle will be given the all-clear to line up in the G1 Tancred Stakes (2400m) at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday. Melody Belle is being closely monitored by veterinarians after she was found to be “tied up” a...