breeding
In a coup for the Australian breeding industry, Maharajah and Calgary Games, two of the greatest trotters ever produced in Sweden, will be available to breeders via frozen semen this season.
Frozen semen stallions are well and truly making their presence felt on Australian and New Zealand racing and breeding, particularly among the ranks of trotting sires.
Obtaining the best possible international and local trotting genetics has been the Haras Des Trotteurs/Yabby Dam Farms’ mantra since being founded by Ballarat trotting breeder Pat Driscoll in 2014.
Part-owner Gary Jarvis is thankful for the incredible ride he had with Rakero Rebel as she prepares for the next phase of her life in the breeding barn.
Victorian owners will race for up to $2.75 million in breeding and sales vouchers under a new two-year initiative beginning September 1.
The Vicbred Vouchers program will see 550 races across the next two seasons carry $5000 vouchers for winning owners, giving them a head start towards breeding or buying their next winners.
A decision to purchase a pair of well-bred siblings by Finley hobby breeder Ash Haynes almost 20 years ago paved…
Colonial bred stallions are making their presence felt whenever they are given reasonable stud chances. The results of metropolitan racing…
Over the past 20 years, Peter Judd and his wife Judy and their son Craig and daughter Tracey have turned…
“She’s a work in progress… she’s got the most raw talent of any horse I’ve ever had.”
Benstud Standardbreds is well versed in breeding and raising Group winning pacers and trotters… But the second weekend of April…
Some horses just leave their mark on you and Tailamade Lombo did that more than most for me. Her passing…
Few areas of the standardbred breeding scene come under as much scrutiny as each year’s new first crop two-year-old sires. A…
Emerging young Victorian driver Sean O’Sullivan is bred to be a star. Three generations of success in the sport he loves…
There is a Victorian influence about the breeding of the two Inter Dominion champions – Don Hugo and The Locomotive….
A carefully planned, well managed breeding program is starting to reap rewards for enthusiastic Goulburn Valley breeder-owner and businessman Frank…
Hobby trainer Warren Greene’s first foray in the breeding space, four-year-old mare Luna Dream is set to chase Vicbred Silver pace success…
A feature of the first crop sires’ statistics to date this season is the strong showing by colonial bred sires…
When brothers Terry and David Lewis bought the broodmare Brilliant Disguise in 2002, it was to be the start of…
A breeding and racing partnership formed 52 years ago between Peter Watkinson and Bruce Paul was thrust into prominence when…
La Machane won 20 of her 61 starts and more than $330,000 for connections in Ross and Greg Sugars’ care…