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winning sprinter Thrillster, Extreme Warrior’s pedigree backs up his race performance. Extreme Warrior has 2 yearlings in the Premier Sale, including Lot 476, a half-brother to Gr1 winner Krone. Finance Tycoon (Written Tycoon-Darook Park, by Darci Brahma) Stands at Kooringal Stud for $11,000 inc.GST Gr3
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Table Table Hand-built in print — rebuild before publishing BELLA NIPOTINA, the Queen of the Australian turf, is an $80K Rosemont Stud Inglis Melbourne Premier Sale graduate who has won 4 Gr1 races, including The Everest, and over $22.7 million. If someone had purchased every yearling sold by Rosemont
Stallion Profile
Named after a corrupt, rotten borough, Wootton Bassett (Iffraaj- Balladonia, by Primo Dominie) comes to Australia as a proven stallion with his first locally bred crop selling as yearlings in 2024. Corruption ran rife through Wootton Bassett between 1447 to 1831 at which point the borough was abolished by the
Stallion Profile
The Gr1 Golden Slipper’s reputation as a sire making race is well established and with only five colts winning it in the last ten years, the 2021 winner Stay Inside (Extreme Choice-Nothin Leica Storm, by Anabaa) belongs to a select group of horses.
Stallion Profile
Australia loves speed. The racing is set up for it with the majority of races being at 1400 metres or less, and the commercial market wants to buy a horse who will get up running quickly, not just with precocity but also with pure speed. Australia’s major export market,
Mover & Shaker
James Harron Bloodstock is best known for its colt partnerships that have resulted in the likes of Capitalist and King’s Legacy, as well as stakes winners such as Espionage, Bodyguard, Cannonball, Highness, Stronger, and Aardvark.
Vale
Four time Australian Champion Sire Snitzel was humanely euthanised on June 11, 2025, aged 22. “Arrowfield acknowledges the profound impact of his passing, not only as the loss of a great horse, but as the end of a significant chapter in the stud’s history. Snitzel was more than a
Studs From The Past
It’s said that you should never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Tocal is known as the farm which produced four Melbourne Cup winners and is famed for being the employer of Captain Thunderbolt, Australia’s longest roaming bushranger.