Russian Camelot - New Winner

Quality four year old Headwater mare London's Image collected her third stakes victory when she unleashed a big finish to claim a determined last stride win over race favourite Talkanco in the Listed Pinjarra Classic 1300m on Sunday.

Group One winner Captured By Love was back in the winners’ circle at Taupo on Sunday, with an elite-level assignment now firmly in her sights.

The all time record for a yearling sold at the Magic Millions Tasmanian Yearling Sale was achieved today when a well related Pinatubo filly sold for $170,000.

There were four heats over 900m for juveniles at Rosehill on Monday morning and we saw a number of youngsters with Golden Slipper aspirations including one time Magic Millions 2YO Classic favourite Paradoxium.

Saturday’s $1m Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand Oaks (2400m) at Ellerslie crowned Ohope Wins (NZ) (Ocean Park) as a spectacular winner of the 2025-26 NZB Filly of the Year Series.

Danny O’Brien already has one promising winner by his former G1 star Russian Camelot (IRE) in the stable in Censori and on Sunday at Bendigo he unleashed another.

Waikato Stud principal Mark Chittick has barely had time to draw breath just lately, but on Monday he found a brief window to reflect on what has been a landmark period for his family’s Matamata nursery.

The predicted shake up to the Golden Slipper order came last Saturday although not in the way many expected.

Promising two year-old Dirty Work filly Summer Schemer crowned a memorable recent run of results for Highden Park when she made the perfect start to her career at Ellerslie on Saturday bringing a timely update for her yearling half-sister headed to Inglis Premier for Crossley Thoroughbreds.

Widden Stud have been riding the winning wave in recent weeks with  new stakes-winners for the farm’s young sires Trapeze Artist and Anders, plus a growing list of promising winners for Russian Camelot (IRE).