Soorapide
Although we’ve been quiet on the public front, it’s been busy as always behind the scenes. Nitro is getting closer to her due date for a maiden foal in the coming months. Ringo is just about finished his spell. Sunny is getting his first taste of education at Percydale Lodge and Sosa is approaching her 2nd jump out in her first serious prep. Plenty to look forward to, let’s hope we are hitting the race track again soon 🤞💪
Ringo has enjoyed a bit or R n R between runs but has worked well in the last few days to suggest he is feeling well and ready for a big run today!
All the best to his great group of owners 🤞
Regal Son
Bendigo Race 4 over 2400m
Melissa Julius to ride
Regal Son tackles a tough assignment first up, 2000m, but he is fit and feeing well. Good luck to his owners 🤞
Regal Son
Tom Stockdale
Pakenham Race 2(in 3 minutes 🤦♂️😂)
Regal Son hit the track today for his final tune-up in a jump-out at Stawell Racing Club. He has done plenty of ground work leading up to his return to racing and he looks to be in good shape for his first up run in the next week or two. Thanks to Dean Yendall for jumping back on again and to Beau Treloar for getting him to this stage, good luck with your apprenticeship, we know you will be a great asset for the QT team in the future.
Well that wraps up a solid first prep for Regal Son. He ticked the 2400m box today and looks like a promising stayer for the future. Whilst still maturing and strengthening he has tackled some of Victoria’s better 3yo stayers and shown he is competitive at that level. Off for a well earned break while the sun braves it’s way through the clouds 😂🙏
Congratulations to our great friends Rodney Foster and Forge Lodge for their win with Fugacity today, another exciting horse for the future!
Regaliti visited Palentino at the beautiful Glen Eden Stud today, the farm is a work in progress but the condition of the mares, foals and stallions is a credit to Sonia and her team. The big boy behaved himself well and Regaliti was a good girl as usual! Fingers crossed for a positive scan in 2 weeks.
We head to Swan Hill this arvo with Stella. She has been a trooper throughout the prep bouncing back from unlucky runs and unsuitable surfaces. She now tackles the mile for the first time but once again she is in good shape and on a drying track hopefully has some luck in running and gets her chance.
Fontaine Del Rosso
Swan Hill
Race 7 @ 4:30pm
Zoe Lloyd
Ringo completed his 2nd jumpout at Horsham yesterday and is now ready to go to the races. The first progeny from our foundation mare Regaliti to get to the races is a big achievement in itself and we can’t wait to see him do her proud.
Regal Son had his first jump out for the prep today at Burrumbeet on a nice soft surface. He handled the day well and is starting to show some real improvement as he approaches his first race start!
Fontaine Del Rosso with Laura Lafferty onboard heading to the gates on a more suitable track here at Coleraine. Hoping she settles early and we see her best work late. Good luck to her fantastic owners, we are due some!
Mildura is the destination on this lovely Sunday. The race is suitable and we have found firm footing which Stella will appreciate, after a slow start to the prep she is now at full fitness so fingers crossed for a smooth trip and luck in running. Good luck to Tony and Cooky, let’s hope she can repay the faith today 🤞
Thanks to Forge Lodge for the lift, without people like Emma and Pierre to help us we would be lost!
Fontaine Del Rosso
Mildura Race 7 @ 4:30
Ellis Wong
Stella has been a tricky case this prep but I think she is back on track, she ran a much improved race at Swan Hill last week and is being aimed at a run next weekend with a few nice options available. Here she is having a nice easy maintenance gallop up the fantastic Hill track at Ballarat Turf Club at Sportsbet-Ballarat.
Ringo currently ticking over nicely building his fitness, excited to see what he can do on the track later in the year 🤞
Regal Son(Ringo) had his first jump out today at an arctic Burrumbeet. The aim of the day was to get his barrier certificate and track his progression. He handled the barriers beautifully thanks to previous work from Damian Hanrahan and Pierre and Emma Fouchard and recent work from Beau who you can see here walking him around today. Beau is a future star of the jockey ranks and his commitment and work ethic are to be admired, he gets along very well with Ringo and hope to see them partner up, doing the real thing in the future. From home on racing.com or at the races you see the finished products at the races, but the work and effort to get them to even Ringo’s stage is enormous. The people mentioned above along with his owners are what make this industry tick and I can’t thank them enough for their work and support. We are and probably always will be a small company, so the expertise of breakers, trainers, farriers, vets and riders is very important to help us along the ride 💪
Fontaine Del Rosso(Stella) and Regal Son(Ringo) paired up for a very nice gallop this morning. They both head to a jumpout next week at Burrumbeet 💪
In other news we are looking to add to our small team via the online auctions. If your interested in getting involved let me know, any budget catered for.
Betty is bouncing and ready go tomorrow, she made big improvement second up so hoping for a podium finish up to a more suitable distance!
Sweet Pickings
John Allen
Kilmore Race 8 @ 4:30pm
Betty lines up for her 2nd up assignment and we are use to seeing good improvement from her so let’s hope she laps up the wet track and runs on strong 💪
Sweet Pickings
Werribee Race 8 @ 5:00pm
Tatum Bull
Back at the races 👌
We are back!
After a short break to welcome in our newest member, our beautiful son Jo(Johannes), we are back at the races this weekend with Sweet Pickings!
In my absence Glenn Gln and Briony Deeker-Fradd at DFX have done a fantastic job doing the ground work with this mare and she is in great shape coming into her first up run. We all know the ability she has, let’s hope she can add consistency to her resume this preparation 🤞
Ringo has joined Fontaine Del Rosso for the last couple of weeks of his spell. He is really turning into a man now and we can’t wait to get him back to the track. A few new owners have joined on which is great and if he continues to progress the way he is going, we should all have something to look forward to in the future!
Sweet Pickings is loving life at DFX Pre training and is on track to kick off her prep in early April 🤞
We sent Big Dusty on holidays yesterday, like with everything it took him a little while to figure out what he was expected to do 😂. Despite his quirks he is a beautiful horse and has been a pleasure to train, I’ve seen a lot of ability behind the scenes and in his short career so far so I can’t wait to see what he can do in future preparations. Again thanks to Brittany Louise and her team 💪
Ringo has finished his pre training with Forge Lodge thanks to Pierre and Emma Fouchard! It takes a team to train a horse and these experiences and work will bring him a long way towards his racing career 👌. He will come home for a couple of months on the grass 💪
Small steps but great to get our first placing today with Stella at Camperdown. A great steer by Dan Stackhouse gave her every chance and she finished well but is still learning how to put her opposition away!
Thanks to Tom and Nicki for transporting the girl today, she even got a couple hours in there beautiful paddocks post race before returning home.
2 weeks on from her gallant first up run, Stella is ready for her next assignment at Mornington tomorrow. Tatum returns to the saddle and as you can see they get along well, looking forward to seeing that come to fruition on the track 🤞
Looking for an improved run as she works towards the Christmas period!
Mornington
Race 3 @ 2:30
Tatum Bull
Stella enjoying her recovery session at Lake Burrumbeet last week with a couple of friends from Cumani Racing.
Stella ready to rock and roll tomorrow, fingers crossed she performs up to her work and gives us something to cheer. Excited that our first runner is a home bred 💪.
Ararat R1 No 1 @ 1:30pm.
Fontaine Del Rosso looking fit and strong leading in to her jump out on Tuesday. 🤞💪
Sunny putting in some early work 💪
