Dusty Star raced into contention for the Group One Australian Guineas with an incredible win in the Group Two D’Urban Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield this afternoon. (more…)

Straight Gold made the best possible start to his racing career when he demoralised his rivals in the Lynch Flowers Handicap (1100m) at Canterbury on Friday evening. (more…)

  ONE of the most spectacular debuts by a juvenile in 2010-11 took place at the Canberra meeting last week. (more…)

Demand for the stock of first season sire Iffraaj remains in high demand at Karaka, providing the top price of the day for the second day in a row at New Zealand Bloodstock’s Select Yearling Sale. (more…)

Eclair Mystic’s march to the Group One Australian Guineas took a leap forward on Wednesday when he scored a thrilling win in the listed Zeditave Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield. (more…)

Sons of Redoute’s Choice continue to make their mark as sires with Widden Stud delighted to announce another of his sons will be joining their stallion roster in 2011 in blue-blooded Group 2 winner Tickets. (more…)

  THE huge books of mares now being entertained by fashionable Hunter valley sires has meant that far more buyers can access their progeny at yearling sales, and prices are in reach of far more budgets. (more…)

Widden Stud have received sad news from the US with Lane’s End Farm reporting the unexpected death on Christmas Eve of their young shuttle sire War Pass (USA), who had just returned to Kentucky from Australia after serving his second season in the southern hemisphere. (more…)

  AUSTRALIAN based sires big input into New Zealand juvenile racing continued at the weekend when both the races for the age group were taken out by fillies got over here.  Both by modest fee sires located at major studs, the winners were Miss Upstart, a second crop daughter of Snippetson (Widden) who made it two from two when she won by 1-1/2 lengths in a Listed event at the feature meeting at Pukekohe Park on Saturday, and Czechout Girl, a filly who gained the honour of being the first winner in the first crop of Gonski (Darley, Victoria) when successful at Te Rapa on Sunday. (more…)

Talented Anabaa (USA) colt Anacheeva became the third winner of the Group One MRC Caulfield Guineas sold by Widden Stud in the last nine years when he saluted in the prestigious mile classic for three year-olds in Melbourne last Saturday. (more…)

The combination of Widden Stud graduates at an Inglis sale struck again in the Melbourne Racing Club’s three-year-old classic on Saturday, when Anacheeva made full use of barrier one to win the $1million Group 1 Caulfield Guineas. (more…)

A superb two year-old from a great family, (more…)

  COINCIDENTS at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday emerged from the wins of the Tale of the Cat 4YO gelding Pureness in a 1500m event, and of the More Than Ready 4-year-old mare More Joyous in the $200,000 Group 2 Sebring Sprint. (more…)

Widden Stud has sponsored several races in recent years in honour of the studs young sires, and, this weekend joins the Sydney Turf Club to be the naming sponsor of the Group 2 Theo Marks Stakes. (more…)

Widden Stud is delighted to announce ‘The Champion 2yo Package’ offer this season for breeders to the southern and northern hemisphere‘s Champion 2yo’s of 2008 Sebring and War Pass. (more…)

  AMONG the seventy sires who were paraded for visitors to the Upper Hunter in the past week were two new ones with a lot of blood in common who captured a lot of attention. They were new shuttler Big Brown, a great American classic performer visiting Vinery, and champion Australian sprinter Nicconi, one of the eight sires at Widden. (more…)

Under grey skies and in blustery conditions, Widden Stud held the first of their series of stallion parade (more…)

  A MOUTH watering collection of sires are to be a show window for the Hunter valley in the last week of August  with four of the leading studs, Widden, Vinery, Darley and Coolmore,  holding stallion parades for invited guests. (more…)

Australian breeders have a wonderful choice of new sires for 2010 ranging from high profile shuttlers like Medaglia d’Oro and High Chaparral, who are already sires of group one winners, to Kentucky (more…)

Widden Stud reports that young freshman stallion Nicconi has landed safely back in Australia on Wednesday afternoon. (more…)