Playing God’s 3yo team for the Ascot carnival received a timely reinforcement when the Neville Parnham-trained Zipaway made a winning return from a spell at Belmont on Saturday. Parnham had prepared Playing God to a first-up victory as a 3yo at Belmont in 2010 before graduating to black-type breakthrough in the G2 WA Guineas (1600m). […]
Read MorePlaying God mare Nunthorpe can join top-class horses like Catchy, Magnus, Sheidel and She’s Extreme who have carried the red and white checked colours of Dorrington Farm owner Robert Crabtree. Nunthorpe (pictured) has looked a black-type winner since a Cranbourne maiden victory last year. “We’ve always had a good opinion of her,” co-trainer Peter Moody […]
Read MoreChampion sire Playing God has a 3yo team with potential heading to the Ascot summer carnival and it just got stronger with his Belmont debut winner All Play. Facing the starter for the first time on Wednesday, All Play looked very promising, albeit with a few rough edges, when powering home for Shaun O’Donnell in […]
Read MoreNunthorpe is destined for black-type racing this season and Jamie Kah is keen to stay aboard the lightly-raced mare during the Melbourne spring carnival. The 4yo daughter of Darling View Thoroughbreds champion Playing God provided a comeback victory for Kah in the Fierce Impact – Pedigree Physique Performance Hcp (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday. They […]
Read MoreDarling View Thoroughbreds has announced its stalwart stallion Patronize has been pensioned from stud duties at Mundijong. The news coincided with Patronize 4yo Swim Through winning the Clinton Fuller Hcp (1000m) at Belmont on Saturday. He was in the good books with punters as the $2.70 favourite and it goes without saying Patronize has always […]
Read MoreThe first foals by Splintex are already making an impression with breeders like Forest View Farm’s Ben and Jo Duncan. Splintex covered 118 mares in his initial crop at Darling View Thoroughbreds last year. That’s just one shy of the WA record for a first-season sire set by Flying Pegasus (Fusaichi Pegasus) at Touchstone Farm […]
Read MoreOakland Park owners Neville and Susan Duncan teamed up with trainers Ben and Dan Pearce for a winning double with Lord Vampi and Dun With The Blues at Northam on Thursday. Lord Vampi (Playing God) started deep in the red at $1.35 for the Motherland Maiden (1300m) and was untroubled to score by a length […]
Read MoreMoorditj Boy was in a race of his own winning the TABtouch Hcp (1200m) by four lengths from a well-beaten field at Belmont on Wednesday. The Hayden Ballantyne-trained 3yo jumped straight to the front at his second start and that’s the last they saw of him. The race was all over at the top of […]
Read MoreNot many mares throw two winners at the one meeting but Eladdair lived up to her ‘bred in the purple pedigree’ at Pinjarra on Thursday. Eladdair (Elusive Quality) is owned by Darling View Thoroughbreds Director Clive Atwell and she kicked off with Prophet And Power (Divine Prophet) in the Lexus Melbourne Cup Tour Maiden (2000m) […]
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