Records continued to be shattered in the Tattersalls sale ring on the third and final day of Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale with a colt by Coolmore shuttler WOOTTON BASSETT selling for 4,300,000 guineas, the highest price for a yearling colt in the world in 2024 and a European record for a yearling colt.
The New Stars classes at Equimillion this year were a fresh innovation designed to showcase the next wave of equestrian horses emerging from the racetrack and to be eligible the contenders needed an official retirement date with Racing Australia that was within 12 months of the show, so who were the 112 horses and riders that rose to the challenge.
October 6: Two-year-old racing - The first races, first season sires and plenty of food for thought for the racing critics. We also look at the key stakes performances, pedigrees, The Everest options and disappointments, changing of the guard for the sprinters, and Equimillion. Click to listen
Everest hero Yes Yes Yes posted a winning double on Thursday putting him to the top of the table of second crop sires by wins with his eight winners to date racking up 11 wins, which is one ahead of Too Darn Hot (GB).
New Zealand syndicator Fortuna’s silks have been to the fore during Melbourne Cup Week through the deeds of Melody Belle, and they are hoping they can feature prominently once more through their rising star Bellatrix Star, a daughter of Widden Victoria's Star Witness.
October 6: Two-year-old racing - The first races, first season sires and plenty of food for thought for the racing critics. We also look at the key stakes performances, pedigrees, The Everest options and disappointments, changing of the guard for the sprinters, and Equimillion. Click to listen
One of the stars of the 2020 Melbourne Spring Carnival was talented stallion Russian Camelot (IRE), who won the Group I MRC Underwood Stakes before placing in both the Group I MRC Caulfield Stakes and Cox Plate with his full brother a highlight horse at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1 overnight selling for 600,000 guineas.
In a landmark acquisition for Swettenham Stud and the Victorian breeding industry, the illustrious LOFTY STRIKE joins the Swettenham Stud roster for the 2024 breeding season.
Vinery Stud have announced that the royally bred Hawaii Five Oh, a stallion with an uncanny likeness and profile to his illustrious sire I Am Invincible, will join their stallion roster for the 2024 breeding season.
The last piece of Everest puzzle has fallen into place with news Yulong will fill their slot for the $20million sprint on October 19 with three year-old Zoustar colt Growing Empire.
Coolmore hit the board on Day 2 at Longchamp when the 2-year-old colt Camille Pissarro emulated the feat of his sire Wootton Bassett (GB) in the Group 1 Qatar Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere (1400m).
The Group II Tab Edward Manifold Stakes (1600m) at Flemington was run in appalling conditions, but there's little doubt the winner, Too Darn Discreet, is a filly going places.