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Staying PositiveWhilst the Flying Start cohort of 2022 hardly expected yet another Christmas overshadowedby Covid, the team has certainly been busy making the

Russian Camelot's star has only continued to rise in his first season in the breeding barn

RSN927 DEANE LESTERS ‘RAMA ROUGHIE’ FOR FLEMINGTON 03rd JULY July 2, 2021 8:24 am By Jackson Frantz Trent Busuttin and Hopkins (Race 7 #10) as his best value selection across the country on Saturday. “I’m looking for a horse down in the weights who has shown a bit of staying promise and I think Hopkins can run really well,” Lester told The Breakfast Club. “He was good against the pattern of the day last start at Cranbourne, he drops 4kgs for that run, he’ll handle soft ground ...

RSN927 CORSTENS CONFIDENT IN GUTSY GELDING July 2, 2021 11:37 am By Jackson Frantz  Troy Corstens is confident impressive last start winner The Astrologist can make it back to back straight track victories when he steps out in Saturday’s Listed All Victorian Sprint Series Final at Flemington.  Corstens, who trains in partnership with his father Leon said the 4-year-old son of star Widden Stud sire Zoustar is fit and well ahead of his fourth up assignment.  “The trip up to Queensland ...

Headline mare Arcadia Queen fails to sell Will Clarken with Bella Vella. Photo: Magic Millions By Clinton Payne Comments One of Australia’s best race mares Arcadia Queen failed to sell when she was put through the ring at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on the Gold Coast on Tuesday. The Bob Peters-owned mare, a three-time Group 1 winning daughter of Pierro, was regarded as the headline act of the sale but an online bid of $3.4 million wasn’t enough for the...

The Randwick track not good enough on Queen Elizabeth Stakes day OUTSTANDING DAY’S RACING BUT SURFACE DISAPPOINTING The question most people were asking after Saturday at Randwick was if the “track was prepared to aid Addeybb?” I criticised the Caulfield track on Blue Diamond Stakes day when horses had to race off the rail to find the best going on a surface rated a good (4), so it is only fair I also ask the same questions about Randwick being rated a good (4) last Saturday. If it is goo...

Link to Share Widden Stud has announced dual Group 1 winner Russian Camelot will stand at their Victorian property. And in a further boost to Victoria’s breeding ranks, he will be joined by talented three-year-old Doubtland. Russian Camelot, who was retired after his second placing in the All-Star Mile due to a tendon injury, will stand for $22,000. The northern hemisphere bred star won the Group 1 SAJC Derby at just his fifth race start last year, and then took out the Underwood Stakes in th...

Russian Camelot to Stand at Widden Stud Widden Studs Antony Thompson confirmed the exciting deal April 15 with ANZ Bloodstock News. "They are two very exciting and very good-looking stallions, although quite different in their profiles," he said. "Its a part-purchase of both horses. Widden managed to buy an interest in Russian Camelot but with the owners retaining a good interest." Russian Camelot will stand at a fee of A$22,000 (£12,360/€14,220). The 4-year-old was retired last month after...

3:44PM, APR 15 2021 In a tremendous boost to the profile of Widden Stud’s expansion into Victoria, the famed Thompson family-owned thoroughbred nursery will stand Russian Camelot and Doubtland at its new Kerrie base, formerly Sun Stud, this spring. Widden Stud’s Antony Thompson confirmed the exciting deal with ANZ Bloodstock News on Thursday. “They are two very exciting and very good-looking stallions, although quite different in their profiles," he said. “It’s a part-purchase...

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