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Playing God filly Yallingup Girl led home a trifecta for Darling View Thoroughbreds after receiving all the favours to win her maiden at Belmont on Wednesday. The Neville Parnham-trained 3yo followed the speed into the straight before Chris Parnham used the cutaway to defeat God’s Garden (Playing God) and her stablemate Scenery (Zoustar) who was […]Read More

Trainer Lou Luciani is hoping his Playing God filly Goddess Of Giving measures up to summer carnival ranks after she won against the odds at Belmont on Saturday. Racing first-up since February, Goddess Of Giving (Photo / Western Racepix) dwelt at the start in the Montague Partners Hcp (1000m) and faced a stiff test coming […]Read More

Ex Sport Man was racing further than a mile for the first time in a 30-start career on Saturday and he had also been winless in 11 starts at Belmont before lining up for a 2100m staying test at the winter track. The Playing God gelding (Photo / Western Racepix) had also drawn a blank […]Read More

Trainer Steve Wolfe sent Rope Them In for a spell straight after labelling him a ‘serious’ horse at Belmont last Saturday. The Playing God 2yo had just claimed his second win in three winter starts and the sky’s the limit when he returns in the spring for a classic campaign.  “He’s done a great job […]Read More

Playing God has the WA Sires’ premiership all sewn up and he can also surge up the 2YO table starting with Rope Them In at Belmont this Saturday and a pair of winners from the Lark Hill barrier trials on Monday. The Darling View Thoroughbreds stallion sits fifth for the 2YO title going into the […]Read More

Heavenly Miss sent Darling View Thoroughbreds sire Playing God through $5 million in seasonal earnings for the first time on Sunday. The Peter Fernie-trained mare was well overdue having been placed seven times before breaking her duck in the Ruby Tourist Tram Maiden (1400m) in Kalgoorlie.  Owned by an Oz Racing syndicate, she led at […]Read More

The WA General Sires’ table has an unfamiliar look about it this season post-Blackfriars. The Scenic Lodge legend won the premiership season-on-season for a record-breaking 12 years.  He will rightly go down as WA’s greatest-ever sire and his Group 1 winning son Playing God has taken over at the top of the table in 2022-23. […]Read More

Sky Duke jumped straight to the front for Brad Parnham at Belmont on Saturday and found just enough to hold out Givemeonereason (Magnus) in a tight finish to the TABtouch Hcp (1000m). “I wasn’t prepared to go the early crow although I did think there may have been a margin,” trainer Neville Parnham said.  “He […]Read More

In a week that’s becoming a familiar scenario this season, Playing God increased his lead at the top of the 2022-23 WA Sires’ premiership with three Ascot winners that banked in excess of $170,000. Today’s TBWA table has Playing God leading the ladder with earnings of $4.31 million and, in a sign of things to […]Read More

Playing God will equal a long-standing WA record when he stands for a $33,000 (inc GST) service fee at Darling View Thoroughbreds this year. It’s the equivalent of recently-deceased Mungrup Stud champion Oratorio (Stravinsky) who covered 111 mares at a $33,000 (inc GST) fee in 2010.  Playing God’s services will increase for the fourth year […]Read More