Author name: Joanne Hicks

Our offer of FREE nominations to Rajasinghe continues to remain popular as his ‘Dating’ Calendar will testify. For anyone considering taking advantage of this offer I would urge you to act fast or risk losing out! A couple of solid performances on the track last week, first up was Con Te Partiro who seemed to

Amazingly there is now less than four weeks until the start of the flat season … or 26 days from today, Sefton Lodge is full to capacity and the team are in full swing. I’m looking forward to seeing all of their progress again this weekend as the earlier two year olds start to emerge

Shallow recorded back to back victories with the fourth win of her career from only seven starts last Wednesday (58%!) at Kempton. Defying top weight and taking on the boys this tough filly made all and showed all of the grit and determination that is becoming synonymous with all of her stallion Rajasinghe’s progeny. Another

Once again it’s that time of year when the foals start to arrive. We currently have three on the ground including this unique Roan Filly by Territories out of Ivory Madonna, a cracking first foal from my old race mare who finished 3rd in the Group 3 Albany Stakes at Royal Ascot. Also foaled on

A quiet couple of weeks on the track but plenty of action off of it. A productive meeting with The National Stud last Friday culminated with our plan to stand Rajasinghe for ‘Free’ for this covering season. Launched only yesterday we’ve definitely attracted the attention of both breeders and the media and at the time

Shallow got us off the mark for the year last Monday, really showing her toughness to hold on from the front and take her career record to 3 wins from 6 runs – what a wonderful filly to be involved with. She is one of five horses that we have catalogued for this week’s horses

A fantastic few weeks’ tour of Australia culminated in a last stop in Melbourne where we were able to visit yet another of Ciaron Maher’s excellent training facilities, this time at Ballarat (pictured). Having seen firsthand what goes on behind the scenes, we are even more excited with our Australian venture. Following on from Ballarat

A brief stop off at the Magic Millions sales complex on Thursday morning saw us double the size of our Australian team with Ciaron Maher. A fantastic colt by champion sire Snitzel out of stakes-winning mare Humma Humma from the highly regarded Antony Thompson’s Widden Farm, he really was a standout. Hopefully we’ll be back

A quiet week at home with just the one unplaced runner at Wolverhampton last Saturday. A sole entry again this week with Giant entered at Lingfield on Friday. A great time for us to get away and we’ve headed ‘Down Under’ for a tour of Australia. First stop Sydney to see the New Year’s Eve