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Link to Share The Hong Kong Jockey Club purchased four eye-catching colts at the recent Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale for a total outlay of AU$1.37 million (approx. HK$8.305 million). The Club’s highest-priced purchase was Lot 525 for AU$550,000, a good-looking son of Deep Field who has been making waves in Hong Kong as the sire of 14 winners this season, including speedsters Winning Dreamer, Sky Field and Winner Method. Recently, Deep Field notched his first G1 as a sire with Portl...

In his wonderful  When the Earth Had Two Moons, planetary geologist Erik Asphaug points out after bearing “the brunt of earth’s gravity for another three years in storage,” when the Galileo mission was finally launched, 2 ribs of the umbrella-like antennae that was to beam data back down failed to open. That forced the back-up antennae, capable of transmitting less than 0.1% of the high-gain antenna’s capacity, to takeover. Enter image compression, now known as the JPEG, and 70% of the...

Atmospheric pollution could be the sign of advanced extraterrestrial civilization This study is the first time pollution has been examined as a possible technosignature. Artist’s illustration of a technologically advanced exoplanet. The colors are exaggerated to show the industrial pollution, which otherwise is not visible. Credits: NASA/Jay Freidlander Nitrogen dioxide is part of a group of gaseous air pollutants produced due to road traffic and other fossil fuel combustion processes. In the...

How stud supremo built empire on ‘risk and reward’ Newgate Farm boss Henry Field hopes to unearth another potential stallion prospect as he applies his strategy to stay at the forefront of thoroughbred breeding. Horses by Ray Thomas 4th Feb 2021 3:15 PM Newgate Farm supremo Henry Fields "risk and reward" strategy is something of a family trait that has irrevocably changed the course of Australian racing and breeding...

How stud supremo built empire on ‘risk and reward’ Newgate Farm boss Henry Field hopes to unearth another potential stallion prospect as he applies his strategy to stay at the forefront of thoroughbred breeding. Horses by Ray Thomas 4th Feb 2021 3:15 PM Newgate Farm supremo Henry Fields "risk and reward" strategy is something of a family trait that has irrevocably changed the course of Australian racing and breeding...

How stud supremo built empire on ‘risk and reward’ Newgate Farm boss Henry Field hopes to unearth another potential stallion prospect as he applies his strategy to stay at the forefront of thoroughbred breeding. Horses by Ray Thomas 4th Feb 2021 3:15 PM Newgate Farm supremo Henry Fields "risk and reward" strategy is something of a family trait that has irrevocably changed the course of Australian racing and breeding...

Portland Sky showed a lot can change in four weeks when he led throughout to beat bigger names in the Group 3 Manfred Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield. Nothing went Portland Sky’s way during a terrible trip to Queensland, which ended when he ran last in the Group 3 Vo Rogue Plate (1400m) on the troubled Eagle Farm track on January. Getting back to Victoria and dropping back to 1200m made a huge difference to Portland Sky at Caulfield. Portland Sky was simply too good for Aysar and Tagaloa today. ...

Shane McGlaun - Jan 24, 2021, 10:29am CST The Hubble space telescope has been in orbit for decades, and while still extremely useful, it’s aging, and NASA is preparing to replace it. One of the key observations that the Hubble space telescope makes are images known as Hubble ultra-deep fields. The upcoming Roman space telescope will be much more capable of taking ultra deep field images than Hubble. The Roman space telescope will be able to image 100 Hubble ultra deep field...

3:14PM, JAN 18 2021 Yarramalong Park principal Richard Foster says the time was right to cash in on the success of exciting two-year-old Alpine Edge by selling his half-brother by Deep Field for $310,000, one of two colts to make the Book 2 top price at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale. Bringing the marathon and record-breaking Gold Coast auction to a close, it was veteran local trainer John Morrisey who outlasted agent Denys Chan to buy the younger sibling to the Toby and Trent Edmonds...

Like Father, Like Son: Danon Smash Takes Hong Kong Sprint For Japan Sponsored by: Danon Smash and Ryan Moore winning the Kong Kong Sprint at Sha Tin Danon Smash followed in the footsteps of his sire Lord Kanaloa with a thrilling victory for Japan on Sunday in the G1 Longines Hong Kong Sprint (1200 meters) at Sha Tin, their third in the HK$22 million contests 21-year history. “It is a very pleasing moment that Lord Kanaloa and Danon Smash, sire and son could achieve their Hong Kong w...