Date posted July 21, 2010 | Posted by Brian Russell | Filed under
Racing and Breeding MUSWELLBROOK racing has been given a boost with a world giant of breeding and racing, the Dubai owned Darley operation, providing support as a sponsor.
The owners in the Hunter Valley of the stud farms Kelvinside near Aberdeen and Woodlands in the Denman district, they are sponsors of the meeting at Muswellbrook to be held next Monday, the last in the Upper Hunter for 2009-10.The feature event is to be a $15,000 Darley sponsored event for 3YO fillies.
Darley and all the other leading studs in the Hunter Valley make big contributions as sponsors to racing around Australia. A number are sponsors of Muswellbrook, one of the busiest and highest TAB turnover New South Wales country racing. They consistently have more than one hundred starters, including horses from Newcastle, the Central Coast and Sydney and well known jockeys.
Muswellbrook is a major training centre with more than a hundred horses in work. It was here that champion jockey Wayne Harris learned his skills in the Pat Farrell stables. While an apprentice, he won the 1979 Golden Slipper for Bart Cummings on Century Miss and two years guided the Farrell trained Food For Love into second place in this jewel of juvenile racing.
Many of the horses in work at Muswellbrook have Sydney owners. Now on the eve of his tenth birthday and still competing, one of these horses is the Jeff Englebrecht trained Newton’s Rings, a winner of 22 races and earner of $774,000.
