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Golden Rose Possible for Smart 3YO

Entered for the Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas and Group I ATC Golden Rose, promising Smart Missile three year-old Yao Dash took another step forward when beating highly rated filly Funstar at Randwick on Saturday. Prepared by Gai Wterhouse and Adrian Bott, Yao Dash defeated subsequent city winner Petronius when winning on debut at Canterbury […]

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Denman’s Deprive Wins a Thrilling Show County

The judge needed a magnifying glass to determine the winner of Saturday’s Group III Show County Quality (1200m) at Randwick and he found Godolphin’s ultra-consistent Denman gelding Deprive had the narrowest of margins over More Than Ready’s emerging sprinter Trope. Given a gem of a ride by Rachel King, Deprive had a soft run behind […]

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Dynamic Debut winner for Smart Missile

Entered for the Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas and Group I ATC Golden Rose , promising Smart Missile three year-old Yao Dash scored an eye-catching debut win at Canterbury on Wednesday to become the 600th winner for Dynamic Syndications. Yao Dash as a yearling, bred and sold by Newhaven Park Trained by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian […]

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Bred To Win – Twin Hills Stud

Twin Hills Stud segment on Bred To Win  Sky Racing – Episode aired on August 13, 2019  

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Katelyn Butler joins Twin Hills Stud as Sales and Marketing Manager

Katelyn Butler has joined Twin Hills Stud as its Sales and Marketing Manager Twin Hills, at Cootamundra in New South Wales, stands the stallions Denman, Smart Missile and Odyssey Moon. It also provides a full agistment service and consigns horses at all major sales. Katelyn will be responsible for Twin Hills’ sales marketing efforts and […]

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Toughness and Trainability – Smart Missile and Denman

An email from one of our readers highlighting the need to look past the traditional sire tables got us thinking. We all know that the ability to sire winners and in particular stakes-winners is what makes a successful stallion, but from the point of view of a racehorse owner, they want not just a horse […]

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16 for Denman

Twin Hills Stud-based stallion Denman (Lonhro) was provided with his 16th stakes winner yesterday courtesy of Deprive’s (4 g ex Defrock by Canny Lad) victory in the June Stakes (Listed, 1100m) at Randwick. The progressive gelding secured his fourth victory on the bounce with a half-length success over Bon Amis (Bon Hoffa), with the same […]

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Its all about now with excitement machine Deprive

It’s rare that James Cummings lets his guard down when talking about the future of one of his horses, but the word Deprive achieved a different outcome. Cummings spoke to Racenet on Wednesday about Saturday’s runners and when it came to Deprive, which runs in the Listed June Stakes at Randwick, his poker face gave […]

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Twin Hills’ blue hen Lipari sells for $1.6million on the Gold Coast

Lipari (Redoute’s Choice), the dam of Group 1 winner Levendi (Pierro), was one of two seven-figure lots sold on day three of the Magic Millions Gold Coast National Broodmare Sale with her $1.6 million price tag also confirming the arrival of Olly Tait’s Twin Hills Stud as a major player. It was Tait’s biggest success […]

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Man on a mission: a visit to Twin Hills

Two years ago Olly Tait returned back to Australia to purchase a farm very familiar to him, in the Cootamundra region where he grew up. TDN AusNZ’s Jo McKinnon headed to southern NSW to spend a morning at Twin Hills Stud. Hurriedly zipping up his jacket to block the Autumn chill, hair windswept and a […]

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