
Summerveld-based trainer Alyson Wright registered her first Gr1 win when the Mauritian-owned Code Rock won the Castle Tankard in Zimbabwe on Saturday. (more)
16-time winning champ Better Than Ever is back and giving 9kgs all round in race 10 at Kranji on Sunday (more)

The British Champions Series gets underway this weekend at Newmarket with the running of the Gr1 QIPCO 1000 Guineas and the QIPCO 2000 Guineas (more)
Zimbabwe celebrates the 50th running of Africa’s oldest sponsored horse race, The Gr1 Castle Tankard. (more)
No outbreaks overseas have ever been linked to the export of horses from South Africa (more)
There seems to be a riches of 3YO talent in Singapore at the moment (more)

R7 million rand! The first foal out of UAE and South African champion Sun Classique is off to Hong Kong (more)
SARAH WHITELAW: With the European flat season having just got under way for the 2012 racing season, it is a good time to look at sires who are likely to make their presence felt this year. It is a look at some of the potentially prominent stallions in the Northern Hemisphere for the racing year. (more)
The stallion roster at Coolmore Australia will be boosted in 2012 by the addition South African champion and leading international performer Musir (more)
Sirecam Europe’s footage for the 2012 Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale (more)

American mare Hidden Light, a dual G1 Oaks winner in her native land, was much in the limelight in Australia last weekend. (more)

Mike de Kock said on Saturday morning that he’d be happy to come away from the world’s richest race meeting with a pair of seconds, he got exactly that. Mike de Kock’s stable enjoyed another good Carnival. (more)

Nominations for Singapore’s two International Group 1 races on 20 May have brought together an impressive array of talent. (more)
Internationals splurged $1,426,000 on 19 lots during the first session and yesterday secured another 25 lots for $1,604,000, bringing the sale total for internationals to $3,030,000. (more)
One of the early features of the 2012 Melbourne Premier Sale was the large contingent of South African owners, trainers and agents in attendance (more)
One of the last links to the great Nijinsky – and to his equally great trainer Dr Vincent O’Brien – came to an end with the death of his son Royal Academy (more)

Attendance at British racecourses rose for the third year running in 2011, despite the continuing gloom in the economy, and pushed beyond six million for the first time since 2004 (more)
The Dubai World Cup Carnival begins its 16-day meet on January 5 at Meydan Racecourse and culminates on March 31 with the $10-million Emirates Airline Dubai World Cup (more)
The American Jockey Club has launched Thoroughbred Regulatory Rulings, a searchable online database of rulings on Thoroughbred trainers from racing regulatory authorities. (more)
Trippi’s daughter TRIP FOR A.J. ran second by less than half a length in the Gr3 $100 000 at the My Charmer Handicap at Calder race course over 9f (turf) – this is the 4yo filly’s 11th win from 24 starts. She has earned over $590 000. Owned and bred by Peter Fuller out of … (more)
Paris in the autumn can only mean one thing, at least if you’re a horsey sort of person – the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (more)
Rian du Plessis invited to speak on the future of horseracing at the international “Leaders in Racing” (more)
River Jetez, a R230 000 purchase at the 2005 National 2yo Sale, lines up in Saturday’s G1 Beverly D Stakes at Arlington on Saturday (more)