Personality Profile

Published: September 2016 MORE accustomed to the horsepower of motorbikes as he was growing up on the family farm at Scone, Nick Hodges gradually came to realise that his future...

Published: January 2016. A lifelong interest in animals and the land was the catalyst enabling Peter Pryde to establish a business that now provides many of Australasia’s major players in...

Published: December 2015. It is an understatement to say Dean Hawthorne has a grounding in the thoroughbred industry, because horses have been his life from the time he could sit...

CHEF Wylie Dalziel’s partnership with legendary jockey Roy Higgins proved a recipe for success and the syndication business they nurtured is now one of the strongest in the country. Horses...

GARRY Cuddy thanks his lucky stars for having an uncle who introduced him to the world of the thoroughbred at a very young age. This exposure, and encouragement from his first...

Mapperley Stud has a great reputation for raising thoroughbreds, So You Think and Dundeel are prime examples, and now Simms Davison, the third generation of his family at the helm...

[gdlr_notification icon=”icon-flag” type=”color-background” background=”#99d15e” color=”#ffffff”]Published in November 2016 edition of BLUEBLOODS[/gdlr_notification] AS THE 32nd Gold Coast Magic Millions yearling sale approaches Clint Donovan says he is as “happy as a...

DARREN Gauci first encountered horses when his apprentice brother Mick asked him to help out at the stables of trainer Don Shannon after school. That led to the soccer mad...

IT’S a long way from selling racing papers outside Harold Park to becoming a significant shareholder in a leading Hunter Valley Stud and a major investor in bloodstock. But that...