A year after being knighted, Sir Brendan Lindsay, and his wife Lady Jo, will head to England to fulfil a royal engagement – watching their multiple Group One winner Joliestar compete at Royal Ascot.
The curtain has been drawn on the racing career of multiple Group One winner Grail Seeker, with the daughter of Iffraaj to join the broodmare band at Yulong following her private sale.
Leading jockey James McDonald had the same dream many Kiwis have as a kid, to be an All Black, and while his diminutive size quickly put paid to that idea, on Saturday he got to experience something very similar.
After a season of near-misses against elite opposition, New Zealand-bred mare Aeliana broke through for a richly deserved second Group One success in Saturday’s A$1 million Ranvet Stakes (2000m) at Rosehill.
Having ridden in six previous editions of The Everest as well as multiple clashes with Ka Ying Rising in Hong Kong, James McDonald has a good idea of what to expect when the world’s highest-rated sprinter makes his Australian debut on Saturday.
“Those horses (Romantic Warrior and Voyage Bubble) have been the highlights, but I really enjoyed every meeting – most meetings, I got winners so it was good.”
