Bright Track Weekly
In a world where challenges often take centre stage, we bring focus on the positive. Bright Track Weekly highlights a selection of racing and breeding snippets, celebrating the vitality of our great sport.
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Everest gains Group 1 status
In an exciting announcement for Sydney racing, the $20m The Everest was announced this week to be elevated to Group 1 status with immediate effect.
The Everest has been a wonderful event for JHB and our partners, taking out the first edition with Redzel in 2017 and the 2022 edition with Giga Kick. We are very much looking forward to this year's race on 19th October, where we will be cheering on Lady of Camelot.
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Tattersalls Book 1 booming!
There was much anticipation ahead of this year's Tattersalls October Book 1 Yearling Sale, and it has been a blockbuster in every sense of the word.
The aggregate spend increased by a remarkable 34% to 127,823,000 gns (A$260 million), despite 46 fewer yearlings sold than last year, while the average was up by an incredible 52% to 370,501 gns (A$753,535)
The presence of Kia Joorabchian's Amo Racing has been a major driver of the increase, with their spend of 19,575,000 gns (A$39.8 million) headed by the 4.4 million gns (A$8.9 million) Frankel filly out of Aljazzi (pictured above) consigned by Newsells Park Stud, the second highest priced yearling ever sold at Tattersalls after the 5 million gns (A$10.1 million) paid for the Galileo x Alluring Park filly by Al Shaqab Racing back in 2013.
The massive interest in quality stock is good news for all involved in the horse racing and breeding industries. With the ever-increasingly global nature of the sport, it is crucial that quality bloodstock retains its status as an appealing asset class.
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A great crop of young jockeys in Sydney
The strength of any industry is always naturally dependant on the quality and skill of its participants, so it has been exciting to witness the rise of several young jockeys in the Sydney riding ranks in recent seasons all from the same crop of apprentices.
This group had a field day on Saturday, with Reece Jones (pictured) taking out his maiden Group 1 race in the Metropolitan Handicap on Land Legend, while Zac Lloyd showed the benefit of his great grounding in riding a treble, headed by a Group 1 win in the Flight Stakes aboard Lady Shenandoah.
With other rising stars from the same crop, Tyler Schiller and Dylan Gibbons also already on the Group 1 scorecard for their careers, the future for jockeys in Sydney looks to be in safe hands.
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Foal Showcase
During the Spring we get to not only enjoy fantastic racing, but also the arrival of the latest crop of foals. Below features some of the impressive youngsters produced by our portfolio management clients so far, with photos courtesy of Newgate Farm.
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Anamoe x Forever Loved filly, bred by Greg and Donna Kolivos' Lightning Thoroughbreds - Forever Loved was a JHB yearling selection and winner of the Group 2 Blazer Stakes at Flemington.
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Capitalist x Danserai d'Amour colt, bred by Belinda Bateman. Danersai d'Amour is a Redoute's Choice three-quarter sister to dual Group 1 winner Russian Revolution, out of JHB broodmare purchaser Ballet d'Amour.
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Anamoe x Kiki Express filly, bred by G1G Racing and Breeding. Kiki Express was a winner of the Listed Debutant Stakes at Caulfield as a two-year-old and was a JHB purchase at the Magic Millions Broodmare Sale in 2024, carrying this filly.
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Home Affairs x Pretty Woman filly, bred by Rob Love. This filly is out of Rob's homebred Pretty Woman, who was an impressive winner of her first two starts as a two-year-old, and very unlucky in the Group 2 Reisling Stakes.
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Anamoe x Starry colt, bred by Belinda Bateman. This colt is out of JHB yearling purchase Starry, who is already the dam of Group 3 Gimcrack Stakes runner-up Celestial Bling (by Capitalist).
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