May 22, 2014
Swettenham Stud has announced the service fees for its front-line stallions will remain unchanged this year.
EQUIANO (Fr) heads the roster at $16,500 (inc gst) on the back of an outstanding sale at the Inglis Melbourne Premier in March.
He topped the first-season leader-board at Oaklands Junction with 15 yearlings averaging $105,200. Top price was the $420,000 colt from Hidden Energy that was the...
May 20, 2014
Equiano (Fr) struck again when Lightning Stride landed the High Sheriffs Stakes (1000m) at Leicester’s evening meeting on Monday.
Lightning Stride (2c Equiano – Fame Is The Spur by Motivator) is the second winner for the Swettenham Stud shuttler following Moving Melody at Newcastle on April 29.
The Brian Meehan trained colt began like a bullet when facing the starter for the second time and he pow...
May 19, 2014
Steve Morris was a racing fan long before he made the grade in AFL ranks with Richmond.
The 25 year-old has a winning pedigree in racing as well as football and is odds-on to make a success of his new company First Class Bloodstock.
Morris and Australian Test cricketer Cameron White are partners in the business and they have brought highly-respected racing professional David Raphael on board as a...
May 1, 2014
Swettenham Stud shuttler Equiano sired his first winner on Tuesday when Moving Melody scored on debut at the Newcastle (UK) twilight meeting.
The Richard Fahey trained filly tracked short-priced favourite Bahamian Art and kept up a keen gallop to win the ESH Group Fillies Maiden Stakes (1000m) by three-quarters of a length. “We bought her at Goffs and she has a nice way of going,” Fahey said. “We...