MIDWAY through the northern hemisphere season, the leading contenders for Europe’s premier middle-distance event the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe-Gr.1 are already beginning to shape up. A quick pen-portrait, in...
MIDWAY through the northern hemisphere season, the leading contenders for Europe’s premier middle-distance event the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe-Gr.1 are already beginning to shape up. A quick pen-portrait, in...
IT is now more than 33 years since the great racehorse Shergar (IRE) (Great Nephew-Sharmeen by Val de Loir) was stolen by masked gunmen from the Aga Khan’s Ballymany Stud...
WIDDEN Stud, in the Widden Valley has a rich history of colonial settlement encompassing more than 140 years. These days Antony Thompson is a seventh generation family member who has...
DARREN Gauci first encountered horses when his apprentice brother Mick asked him to help out at the stables of trainer Don Shannon after school. That led to the soccer mad...
IT’S a long way from selling racing papers outside Harold Park to becoming a significant shareholder in a leading Hunter Valley Stud and a major investor in bloodstock. But that...
“Speed, speed and more speed,” famous American breeder A.B. “Bull” Hancock’s oft-quoted maxim of what is takes to make a stallion, is certainly apt in Rubick’s case. This recipe for...