Mark Smith, Breednet – Saturday January 28 Joe Pride has the Midas touch in rejuvenating older horses and has worked his magic on Newhaven Park Stud’s six-year-old Toronado mare Mariamia. With Tim Clark in the saddle, Mariamia opened her stakes account in Saturday’s Group II Furphy Expressway Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill. Enjoying a cosy run, […]
By TBV, January 19, 2023 When you’re offered around $1.2 million by wealthy Hong Kong owners for a horse that won his first two starts, it would be an easy decision for a lot of people to have grabbed the cash back in 2020. Victorian syndicator Delbridge Racing’s managing director Mark Leo admits […]
by TBV, December 13, 2022 The lights were shining brightly for Swettenham Stud at The Valley on Friday night when a mare and two fillies by Toronado won three of the first four races on the program. And over at Canterbury, another Toronado got the money. At one of biggest race days of the year, […]
by Mark Smith – Saturday December 10 It was a memorable Friday night for Adam Sangster and the Swettenham Stud team as winners flowed freely at Moonee Valley and Canterbury. New Australian citizen Toronado (IRE) kicked off the Moonee Valley meeting with three winners in the first four races. And it was an easy watch for […]
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, […]