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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

Trainer Neville Parnham will consider a start in the G3 WA Sires Produce Stakes (1400m) for Investmentstrategy after the Playing God colt won again at Ascot on Wednesday. Investmentstrategy (Photo / Western Racepix) dictated terms in a Belmont nursery earlier this month but had to work overtime to win the Carbine Club Of WA Plate […]Read More

Western Breeders Alliance had all the bases covered this week from Ascot on Saturday, to Hong Kong on Wednesday night and Pinjarra yesterday. Pearce Racing prepared both local winners to bookend WBA graduate Magniac in the Ho Man Tin Hcp (1200m) at Happy Valley.  The Jamie Richards-trained 3yo expat was given every chance stalking pacemaker […]Read More

Baby Paris outclassed a strong field of older campaigners while leading home a quinella for Darling View Thoroughbreds sire Playing God in the $200,000 The Joey (1200m) at Ascot. The Colin Webster-trained 3yo filly pinched a winning break in the straight and had enough in reserve to nail Saturday’s The Quokka consolation by a nose […]Read More

Darling View Thoroughbreds stallion Playing God stretched his lead at the top of the WA sires’ premiership to more than $1 million over Easter with Ex Sport Man and Cobbanco leading the way at Ascot. Playing God ($3,701,589) has built a healthy margin over Trade Fair ($2,696,768) but it’s too early to celebrate with the […]Read More

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