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Bren O’Brien

State of play: the key challenges at the heart of Tasmanian racing

With increases in prize money, wagering, government support and yearling prices, thoroughbred racing and breeding in Tasmania looks to be in rude health, but dig a little deeper and there are significant challenges in the island state.

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Bren O’Brien

Risk and reward: the subtle art of pinhooking

Pinhooking has become an essential part of the global bloodstock industry, with traders adding liquidity to an already bullish market. Bren O’Brien talks to two noted pinhookers about the ins and outs of the game and the art of selection and sale.

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ANALYSIS | Wild horses can’t stop another Gold Coast spending spree

While it was far from the perfect week for Magic Millions, Racing Queensland and the Gold Coast Turf Club, when it comes down to the pure commerce of buying and selling racehorses, Australia’s thoroughbred industry powers on undeterred.

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David Morgan

What Hong Kong owners want: five buyers describe the attributes needed for Sha Tin

With the Australasian sale season kicking off on the Gold Coast, Asian Racing Report spoke to experienced Hong Kong buyers about what they look for in a horse purchased to race at Sha Tin and Happy Valley.
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Bren O’Brien

The search for an edge in a red hot bloodstock market

In a global bloodstock boom the ability to find value in the market is an edge every buyer is seeking. Bren O’Brien looks at how buyers at this week’s Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale are adapting their strategies.

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Bren O’Brien

Champions of the track and breeding barn – Top Five mares who shone as racehorses and as broodmares

With Gentildonna becoming a Group 1-winning producer thanks to her daughter Geraldina, we have ranked the Top Five champion racehorses across the world who went on to become star broodmares.

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Bren O’Brien

Yahagi joins in record trade at Tattersalls

Japanese trainer Yoshito Yahagi played a key role in the biggest day of yearling trade ever in Europe, buying one of the eight horses to sell for more than a 1 million guineas (US$1.2 million) on the second day of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale at Newmarket.

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Bren O’Brien

COMMENT | Down to the wire – Why Kiwis keep coming up trumps in Australia’s best races

While commercial thoroughbred breeding has never been as powerful as it is right now in Australia, New Zealand-bred horses continue to win many of Australia’s best races. Bren O’Brien investigates the Kiwi philosophy that underpins that success.
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Arc connections run deep for Yahagi at Arqana August Yearling Sale

Yoshito Yahagi’s summer sojourn to France has netted him colts by Siyouni and Kingman both closely related to Arc winners at the Arqana August Sale, the former reaching a sale-topping price of €2.1 million (AU$3 million).

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