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Smart Filly Sensational at Canterbury
It’s been a sensational season for Twin Hills Stud’s Smart Missile with over 100 winners of more than $5million in prizemoney, but there may be even better ahead next season as one of his winners is exciting two-year-old Smart Melody, who blitzed her rivals at Canterbury on Wednesday to earn a slot in early markets […]
[ Read More ]100 for Smart Missile
New to Twin Hills Stud this spring, Smart Missile passed the milestone of siring his first seasonal century of winners with a smart two year-old winner from the Gerald Ryan stable on Friday. Resuming from a spell and gelded after his initial two start preparation last year, Nuke was prepared for his return with two […]
[ Read More ]Nervous 99
Since Twin Hills Stud made the decision to stand Smart Missile at their Cootamundra farm, the son of Fastnet Rock has knocked up siring winners with a debut juvenile winner at Gosford on Thursday bringing him to 99 winners for the season. The Joe Pride trained gelding Knight Arrow was well educated for his debut […]
[ Read More ]I’ll Have A Bit set Group One mission in Adelaide – McArdle keen to take chances in The Goodwood with Smart Missile filly
A setback early in the autumn campaign of three-year-old filly I’ll Have A Bit (Smart Missile) firstly led to an unlikely victory in the Euclase Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) (see replay below) and now trainer John McArdle is chasing more Adelaide success in Saturday’s The Goodwood (Gr 1, 1200m). The Mornington-based McArdle yesterday confirmed that I’ll Have […]
[ Read More ]Surprise winner I’ll Have A Bit’s fast sectional times suggest she should not be overlooked again
I’ll Have A Bit (Smart Missile), at odds of $151, was obviously a surprise winner to most when she dashed home to claim Saturday’s Euclase Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) at Morphettville but an examination of her sectional times suggests that her victory was far from being a one-off performance. The John McArdle-trained three-year-old filly, settled […]
[ Read More ]Smart Missile’s I’ll Have A Bit Goes Ballistic in Euclase Stakes
Fans were at fever pitch as the favoured runners Nature Strip, Viridine and She’s So High were staging a titanic dual down the Morphettville straight in Saturday’s Group II UBET Euclase Stakes but on the line there was stunned silence at the $150 shot I’ll Have a Bit came sailing down the outside to blouse […]
[ Read More ]Figures Up After Easter Fortnight
A fortnight of selling at Inglis’s Riverside Stables in Sydney drew to a close on Tuesday with the third and final session of the Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale. Topping trade on Tuesday was the 4-year-old Snitzel (Aus) mare Wilcannia (Aus) (lot 510), who was bought by Boomer Bloodstock and Daandine Stud carrying her […]
[ Read More ]Tait Reflects On Year At Twin Hills
After nine years spent abroad, for the most part as a manager of Sheikh Mohammed’s global operations, Olly Tait returned to Australia on a permanent basis exactly a year ago last weekend. It was just over 12 months ago that Tait and his wife, Amber, jumped at the chance to purchase Twin Hills Stud in […]
[ Read More ]Smart Winner for Missile
Announced as a new addition to the Twin Hills roster this spring last Sunday, Smart Missile was quick to keep himself in the news when siring a smart winner at Randwick on Wednesday for Team Hawkes. Four year-old gelding Thaad had no luck last start when slowly away before finishing second at Warwick Farm and […]
[ Read More ]Smart Missile to Stand at Twin Hills Stud
Smart Missile, Australia’s leading third crop sire by winners, will stand at Twin Hills Stud in Cootamundra for the 2018 season at a fee of $13,200 A brilliant two-year-old, Smart Missile was Australia’s Champion First Season Sire, the leading second season sire by winners and again leads his generation in the number of winners achieved […]
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