Harness Today – Gr3 Action At Gloucester Park
Devonne Govender teams up with trainer/driver Aldo Cortopassi once again to preview today’s Gloucester Park race meeting
24th May 2024
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Devonne Govender teams up with trainer/driver Aldo Cortopassi once again to preview today’s Gloucester Park race meeting
‘You can have the most beautifully bred horse and the most beautiful mover, but if he doesn’t want it, it won’t happen, because when you really want it, he’ll say no’
The build up to this month’s Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on the Gold Coast has intensified with the release of the first supplementary lots
The catalogue, now online, comprises 393 lots (plus supplementaries) to be offered across two days – June 4 and 5
The quality packed 2024 edition of the Magic Millions Gold Coast National Weanling Sale is now online
The half-brother to equine superhero Frankel got off the mark in promising style in Tuesday’s Alex Scott Maiden Stakes
The Pierro x Winx filly’s price of A$10m eclipsed the previous world record for a yearling filly set in 2013 and decimated the Southern Hemisphere yearling record price of $5m
The only living foal of champion mare Winx has been sold for a world record A$10 million
Defending champion Ushba Tesoro has drawn stall five in Saturday’s $12,000,000 Gr1 Dubai World Cup Sponsored by Emirates Airline
Outstanding mare Atishu has been confirmed as one of the headline acts for May’s Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale at the Gold Coast
A colt by leading Hunter Valley based sire Extreme Choice was the subject of intense bidding before the gavel fell at A$360,000 to the bid of Laurel Oak Bloodstock on Tuesday
Just 48 hours after Cheeky Wink’s smart win at Tipperary, the Kieswetter and Heffer families enjoyed another champagne moment at Sandown
Ridgemont’s Rafeef fairytale received more endorsement on the Championships Finale at Turffontein on Saturday when his daughter, Chasing Happiness, ran her eight opponents off their feet to register her second stakes success when winning the TAB Gr2 Senor Santa Stakes
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
