Archive for March 2019

100 for Smart Missile

Twin Hills Stud’s prolific winner getter Smart Missile has joined the century club of sires with over 100 winners this season. He passed the mark earlier this week with a Seymour victory for four year-old mare Josephine Sea and kept up the good work at Muswellbrook on Friday with lightly raced four year-old Bid’n’Bare claiming […]

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The 200 Club

The Australian Studbook released covering statistics earlier this month for the 2018 breeding season revealing some 13 stallions covered books of 200 or more mares which was more than double the number from last year, so we thought we’d take a closer look at just why these guys were popular. Stallions that cover super size […]

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Smart Missile’s Final Award Strikes in Canberra Guineas

Making just his fourth trip to the races, the Mark Newnham-trained Final Award came from last to win the Listed Canberra Guineas (1400m) last weekend. With Josh Parr in the saddle the son of Smart Missile powered down the centre of the track to defeat Laburnum (Denman) by half a length with Major Wager (Exceed […]

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