Onadowntowntrain gave Brent Albuino a kick-start in the training ranks with a front-running victory at Ascot on Saturday. Albuino began training for Gold Front Thoroughbreds owners Alan and Sue Olive at their Gingin establishment earlier this year. His only other Saturday winner in town had been Lost Heritage for Yarradale Stud’s Ron Sayers. Onadowntowntrain (3g…
Young Darley based stallion New Approach (IRE) has stamped himself as an exceptional sire in the making after posting three individual two year old stakes-winners at the Royal Ascot meeting last week, the best of those Dawn Approach, set to race on in Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin colours.
Weanlings by Australian Champion Sire elect Fastnet Rock provided the highlights on a remarkable opening day’s trade at the 2012 Inglis Australian Weanling and Bloodstock Sale in Sydney, where the average price rose 55% from last year.
Many assumptions are made about an unraced horse’s likely ability based on the colour of its coat.
The Rasmussen Factor is one of the many tools in the pedigree planner’s strategy box. Named after one of the latter day icons of pedigree analysis, the late Leon Rasmussen, it refers to inbreeding to superior females through different individuals. The U.S. based analyst observed that matings which brought together a duplication of these matriarchs…