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Stable Tours: Meet Lindsay Park’s next wave of spring contenders
Trickle down economics: how much prizemoney reaches ordinary owners?
In their entries to TTR's problems and solutions series, both Olly Tait and Duncan Ramage recognise that every level of the racing industry benefits from serious investment at the top end. In Part 1, we explore an idea mutually held by Tait and Ramage; to attract and keep high-end investors, we need to make the business of racing far more likely to break even.
September 1st 2026
Buy of the Weekend: A $120,000 gamble built on a potent pattern
Four of Written By’s seven stakes winners are out of Snitzel mares. RedFox Racing knew the numbers when it paid $120,000 for Plagiarism, but the colt’s fluent movement sealed the deal. Now a dominant G3 Up & Coming Stakes victory has taken his earnings beyond $280,000 and given the young syndication company its latest headline horse.
September 1st 2026
NZB unveils powerful 2026 Ready to Run Sale Catalogue
New Zealand Bloodstock has unveiled a powerful 2026 Ready to Run Sale catalogue, combining proven Group One and emerging stallions, leading vendors and commercial depth ahead of the November auction at Karaka, with a horse there for everyone.
September 1st 2026
‘A fantastic problem to have’: Deciding unbeaten American Eagle’s next step
The first challenge was putting together an ownership group for American Eagle after he was passed in at the 2025 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale. Eighteen months and two wins later, his connections have a far better challenge: deciding whether the unbeaten Too Darn Hot colt heads towards the G1 Coolmore Stud Stakes or G1 Caulfield Guineas.
August 31st 2026
Stable Tours: Drops Of God the one to watch for Walker and Bergerson
Leading Kiwi trainers Mark Walker and Sam Bergerson had another stellar season in 2025/26, and they look to repeat the same effort this season with a host of new faces in the stable. In today's Stable Tour, Bergerson offers insight to the spring plans for some of the stable stars and who he thinks will carry the tangerine and blue flag amongst the up and comers.
August 31st 2026
Duncan Ramage: Redistribution of prizemoney can encourage ownership
Duncan Ramage agrees with Olly Tait that redistribution of prizemoney can help grow investment into ownership. In TTR’s problems-and-solutions series, Ramage argues that the redistribution of prizemoney isn’t about taking from the top to prop up the bottom. It’s about making the whole journey more cost-effective.
August 31st 2026
International News: Leading Change wins the Travers for Wathnan
With five Grade 1 races on the card at Saratoga, it was trainer Chad Brown who won two of them with Ways And Means and Fully Subscribe. The headline act of the G1 Travers Stakes went to Brad Cox-trained Leading Change, while Ron Moquett won the Forego with Hymn and Cherie DeVaux’s Englishman was impressive in the Jerkens.
August 31st 2026
Vale Bev Kelso
Successful New Zealand trainer Bev Kelso died on Saturday following a short illness. Co-trainer with husband Ken, they were renowned as good trainers of fillies with the likes of Legarto, Levante, and Bounding. Current star Alabama Lass will run in next Saturday’s G1 Proisir Plate.
August 31st 2026
Latest Editions
Tuesday
Stable Tours: Meet Lindsay Park’s next wave of spring contenders
Monday
‘A fantastic problem to have’: Deciding unbeaten American Eagle’s next step
Sunday
Saturday Summary: Beiwacht brilliant at the 1400 metres again in the Memsie
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