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What started as an unexpected way to get off his PlayStation as a teenager could lead to Ben Thompson’s first Group 1 win in Saturday’s Sydney Cup. The blossoming Queensland rider grew up in Victoria as the son of greyhound racing trainers and didn’t ride a horse until he was 15. As he tries to break into the Group 1 club when he rides Adelaide Cup winner Good Idea in the famous colours carried by champions like Saintly and So You Think on Saturday, Thompson reflected on how his riding journey started out of the blue. His father Jason took him on a trip to see horse trainer mate Frankie Stockdale who put the young Thompson on a stable pony, starting his love affair with horses. ....
ADELAIDE CUP: AT LEAST THE COLOURS WERE MELBOURNE CUP-WORTHY March 8, 2021 7:18 pm By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor The hopes of a homespun Melbourne Cup win copped a hit with the sound defeat of Tralee Rose but at least the “colours” were stamped with local Melbourne Cup history with Good Idea’s win in today’s Adelaide Cup. Warrnambool-trained Tralee Rose, the equal Melbourne Cup favourite before the gates opened for today’s Adelaide Cup, ran a flat fourth. It was a performance that did not crush her Melbourne Cup aspirations, given she may have come to the end of a long campaign, but Tralee Rose will no longer sit atop Cup betting when lists are revised tomorrow. ....
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VIENTIANE, Feb 1 (Vientiane Times/ANN): Laos has confirmed the nomination of its famous Hin Nam No National Park in Khammuan province to the IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas. The IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas is a global standard for protected area management performance. “The approval of the Lao government to proceed with IUCN Green List certification for Hin Nam No National Park is a big step toward our goal of having our national park obtain international recognition status and another important step towards UNESCO World Heritage nomination,” said the Deputy Governor of Khammuan province, Bounmy Phimmasone. ....
10% @ $17,080.00- MONTHLY FEES $380.00. 5%@ $8,540.00-MONTHLY FEES $190.00. 2.50% @ $4,270.00-MONTHLY FEES $95.00. 2%@ $3,416.00-MONTHLY FEES $76.00. 1.25% @$2,135.00-MONTHLY FEES $47.50 TRAINER-MICK PRICE & MICHAEL KENT (Jnr). PEDIGREE PAGE. https://catalogue.magicmillions.com.au/lot/21GPR/212 SYNDICATORS COMMENTS. SEND ME A PROSPECTUS. SYNDICATORS COMMENTS. So You Think was unearthed in New Zealand by Bart Cummings and Duncan Ramage (racing and breeding manager for Bart’s long-time friend and patron Dato Tan Chin Nam) and bought at the 2008 New Zealand Bloodstock Premier Yearling Sale at Karaka for NZ$110,000, consigned in the Windsor Park Stud draft. His pedigree conformed closely to the Cummings blue-print. His first three dams had all been stakes-performed multiple winners and boasted solid breeding records. His dam Triassic (NZ), a daughter of the imported Nijinsky stallion Tights, had scored twice in stakes company. By the time the ....