Star Turn sired 10 individual winners in the first 14 days of April and he’s banking on some black-type in the second-half of the month with Golden Monkey and Khadime.

Saturday’s $5 million The Quokka (1200m) at Ascot has lured several top-class interstate sprinters against a local contingent that includes two WA-sired runners in the capacity field of 14 starters.

Renowned WA nursery Oakland Park will conduct an unreserved reduction of breeding stock through the Inglis Online Late April Sale.

Vinery Stud has announced that the royally bred Hawaii Five Oh, a stallion with an uncanny likeness and profile to his illustrious sire I Am Invincible, will join its stallion roster for the 2024 breeding season.

Big-ticket Irish-bred mare Bumbasina (Canford Cliffs), the dam of Western Australia’s pride and joy Amelia’s Jewel (Siyouni), won’t be sold by her owner Peter Walsh any time soon.

Sparingly-raced 4yo mare Enchanting Sound has given Yarradale Stud sire Gingerbread Man a second Saturday win in a row at Ascot.

Miss Flirtacious found a winnable scamper at Narrogin on Sunday and her performance could be best described as a belated easy-kill in the James Squire Maiden Hcp (1190m).

Leading owner-breeder Santa Guagliardo has upgraded his Ridgeport Farm roster with rising sire Ducimus joining Rommel at the new stud on the block in WA.

Pure Aqua improved the strike-rate of Adelaide trainers Richard and Chantelle Jolly with Headwater to 80% when she scored a resounding victory in the Without Fear Stakes (LR, 1050m) on Saturday.

It is with great sadness that Yarradale Stud said goodbye to War Chant (USA) on Thursday.  The 27-year-old stallion succumbed to the infirmities of old age at the Gidgegannup nursery that he had called home for over a decade.