by Mark Smith, Breednet – Wednesday November 2 The three-year-old Toronado (IRE) filly Laced Up Heels brought the unbeaten run of Amelia’s Jewel to an end in the Listed Tabtouch-Burgess Queen Stakes (1400m) at Ascot on Tuesday. Ridden by Chris Parnham for Luke Fernie, Laced Up Heels was well back early with the favourite Amelia’s […]
By Tara Madgwick, Breednet – Tuesday November 1 A regular shuttler to Swettenham Stud in Victoria, Galileo’s champion son Highland Reel (IRE) is off the mark with his first Australian stakes-winner with High Approach making light of testing wet conditions at Flemington to score a courageous win in the Listed VRC Tab Trophy Stakes (1800m). Trained […]
By TBV, 28-10-2022 22-year-old star on the rise, Marcus Heritage is a lover of all sports; AFL, American Football, Golf, but most of all racing. Currently working in Nominations at Victoria’s prestigious Swettenham Stud, Heritage ensures that all clients looking to have a mare served at Swettenham are getting the best possible results, […]
BREED NOW, BENEFIT LATER! Breeding mares in November and December has been a huge success, on the track as well as in the sales ring. If it wasn’t for astute breeder’s sending their mares to stud later in the year, we wouldn’t have Legends such as LOHNRO and VERRY ELLEEGANT. Other recent stars that were […]
by Tara Madgwick, Breednet – Thursday October 13 A third of the runners in this year’s $15million The Everest are by Swettenham Stud based sires past and present, but it’s their new recruit Wooded (IRE), who holds the promise of producing sprinting stars for the future. A brilliantly fast speedster by Wootton Bassett that scored […]
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022, TBV For Jacquinot’s breeder and part-owner Lindsay Maxsted, it was a case of two of his great sporting loves clashing head-on during a hectic Saturday afternoon. The corporate high-flyer, who is also chairman of Coolmore Stud Australia, is Geelong born and bred and a passionate Cat supporter. And as a horse breeder, […]