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Playing Marika commenced her career with a debut win at Northam in October 2018 and it took 53 starts before she scored another first-up victory in the LR Grandstand Cup (1400m) at Ascot on Saturday. A first-crop daughter of Playing God, she is the 12th individual black-type winner for the Darling View Thoroughbreds resident and […]Read More

Figures released by the Australian Stud Book this week confirmed the growing influence of Darling View Thoroughbreds in Western Australia. In season 2022, Darling View’s leading sire Playing God covered 132 mares to top the WA stallion list alongside the Mundijong nursery’s newcomer Splintex who was next best with 118. There were 1,334 WA-based mares […]Read More

Leading sire Playing God has several high-profile irons in the fire for the $4 million The Quokka while his midweek winners like Boy Blue are flying under the radar. Ascot trainer Russell Stewart prepares Playing God’s $300,000 earner Swear To God and he unveiled another budding banker by the Darling View Thoroughbreds stallion when Boy […]Read More

Western Breeders Alliance topped Perth’s Magic Millions Sale with turnover of $2.31 million in February and they’ve jumped the gun with five winners already this month. Ascot winners in March that were catalogued by WBA for Swan Valley Sales include Street Parade (Lucky Street), Alaskalot (A Lot) and American Troop (King’s Troop).  Their out-of-town winners […]Read More

Playing God is already a dominant force in Perth and it’s only matter of time before his stock begin making an impact in other jurisdictions. The Darling View Thoroughbreds resident has sired 125 individual winners in his first five crops and 21 of them have earned black-type led by Group 1 Kingston Town Classic heroine […]Read More