Bred to Win Returns to Sky This Tuesday

Media Release - Sunday August 2

Caroline Searcy’s Bred To Win returns to our screens this Tuesday August 4, 2020 at 8.30pm on Sky Thoroughbred Central (Foxtel Ch 528).

The go-to program for all your thoroughbred breeding information Bred To Win features some of the most exciting new season stallions in full broadcast quality on your big screen TV!

Castelvecchio is featured in this week's show.

Episode one features Arrowfield Stud’s dual Group 1 winning son of Dundeel, Castelvecchio, a 2YO winner of the ATC Champagne Stakes and at three, victorious in the ATC Rosehill Guineas. John Messara also pays tribute to Arrowfield’s now four-time Champion Australian sire Snitzel and discusses the move of Victoria’s champion sire Written Tycoon to the Hunter Valley.

Plus Exceed And Excel’s Coolmore Stud Stakes (G1) winner Exceedance at Vinery Stud along with promising young sires Headwater, Press Statement and Star Turn.

In Arrowfield Stud’s The Horse Who Made You Love Racing Inglis auctioneer Chris Russell recaps the deeds of a versatile racetrack champion and Segenhoe Stud’s Peter O’Brien has an Inglis Sales’ Story about pulling the wrong rein at the 2003 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale!

In coming weeks Bred To Win will feature first-season sires including Coolmore Stud’s Everest winner Yes Yes Yes and new European stars Calyx and Magna Grecia, D’Argento at Bowness Stud, Aquis Farm’s Pierata and Bellevue Hill and their new Queensland and Victorian stallions and Darley’s exciting imports Blue Point and Too Darn Hot plus an update on Cambridge Stud’s 2020 Diamond Jubilee Stakes winner Hello Youmzain.

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Also “breed to race” stallions such as Kingstar Farm’s Unite And Conquer and Knight Exemplar and Fastnet Express at Brisbane Meadows.

Plenty of new content coming up in the new season of Bred To Win and a great opportunity to see all your favourite racetrack performers in full broadcast quality, a big help for mare owners in particular with travel restricted this spring.

Bred To Win, Tuesday’s 8.30pm, Sky Thoroughbred Central (Ch 528) and live-streamed on racingnsw.com.au  - with replays Wednesday at 7.30am, Saturday at 10pm and Sunday at 8.30am, leading into Thoroughbred Weekly.

Searcy’s thoroughbred re-homing program Thoroughbreds Are Go will return in September with stories on Riding For Disabled, rehabilitating horses with tendon injuries, training thoroughbreds for three-day events, Godolphin’s whole of life approach to early training of their racehorses and Segenhoe Stud’s management of retired broodmares, plus much more.

For more information contact: caroline@searcymedia.com.au

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