By Duane Ranger Even with Monbet currently be spelled Greg and Nina Hope can still boast one of New Zealand’s best trotters. That was endorsed at Alexandra Park this evening when the Ricky May driven Quite A Moment won the Group One Campin Bloodstock $80,000 National Trot in New Zealand record time. The 7-year-old brown…

With the yearling sales just ten days away now, all the vendors at this years sales have long ago finalized all their advertising and promotion of their stock. The photos and videos are up and all the vendors can hope for is that the prospective buyers are as taken with their yearlings as they are.…

Grant and Di Beckett had a weekend to remember and are probably lucky it was a long weekend all things considered. Three winners is a great feat for a breeder in any week, but three in fifteen hours is almost unheard of!! Juverna, the Beckett’s super broodmare had three of her progeny win races on…

Broodmares usually show their cards early in leaving their best performers while young and healthy and then the production record will invariably fall away for one reason or another. However Juverna has gone the other way. The now 19-year-old Gee Whiz II mare, who managed a second in a $2000 Novice in a six-start race…

In France the three day sale at Deauville concluded on a high note – not unexpected, because the yearlings on the last day were all sired by young sires, whose eldest crop was 2 years-old. The two time winner of the Prix d’Amerique. Ready Cash, is in that category and, as expected, his yearlings sold…