Is our American Thoroughbred only sprinter bred? No it is not, matter of fact America’s breeders produce 25% of the world’s stamina bloodlines. This means Sport Horse breeders in America can stop listening to the propaganda and start reinforcing those stamina lines your horses already carry. Click here to read…
RECAP: ROUNDING OUT THE TOP 5 02/27/2016 Final Result Pos Gate Horse Stable Jockey Time 1 3 Secret Phantom Dixon Racing Pierre Strydom 1:58.993 2 7 Jellybean Fernbank Park Jacqui Bellantone 1:59.869 3 4 Addie Over Manor crowsrock Alycia Aupperle 2:00.313 4 8 Gallahadion cassie Zachery Jandron 2:00.369 5 1…
The So You Think Cup is a highly prestigious event for 3yo’s, proudly sponsored by the Hareeba stables, in honour of one of Australia’s best horse racing exports – the mighty So You Think. This son of High Chaparral is a winner of 10 Group 1 races, earned over $8,6m…
Reading between the lines and from what is being chatted about, racing in Singapore is in a very strange place. Literally. Then again, for those of us who have had to spend any length of time in the Lion City, Singapore will always be Swingabore and a very strange place…
Talk to a group of horse people about conformation and you’ll get as many differing opinions as you have bystanders. Racing lore says that a good, big horse can beat a good, little horse, or wait, is it the other way around? There are examples for either side of the…
I write today with great sadness. In the lead up to this year’s Melbourne Cup, much ado was made about the grand old boy Red Cadeaux’s 5th assault on our great race. In previous years I had underestimated the red horse’s abilities while selecting our trifecta horses for myself and…
GAI WATERHOUSE STABLES TO BE SOLD TO HONG KONG CONNECTIONS? WELL, KUNG HEI FAT CHOY, DIM SUMS!? That’s the word, and we believe it. After almost a year of negotiations involving Lady GaiGai- and Lord Rob, of course- along with her very savvy Racing Manager Adrian Bott and the connections…
RECAP: ROUNDING OUT THE TOP 5 02/13/2016 Final Result Pos Gate Horse Stable Jockey Time 1 3 Angel From Hell DR Stables Dominque Donlin 1:12.445 2 16 Koko Nachos Dotties Stables Emery Cross 1:12.599 3 8 Guitar Bandido Fruits Folly Janyce Bablak 1:12.764 4 9 Revenge Jakobs Fairlawns Avis Rennell…
Heritability of Performance Heritability – an explanation Factors including genetics, environment and random chance all contribute to the variation between individuals in their observable characteristics. The heritability of a trait within a population is the proportion of observable differences in a trait between individuals within a population that is due…
The timely and unambiguous closing statement of last week’s Asian Racing Conference by Asian Racing Federation (ARF) Chairman and Hong Kong Jockey Club Chief Executive Winfried Engelbrecht－Bresges proposing the establishment of a regional task force to develop an ARF Anti-Illegal Betting Strategy, is an overwhelmingly positive step in the right direction.…