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Ascot’s opening day unearthed several summer carnival prospects with none more impressive than Almighty Class in the $100,000 Max Simmonds Stakes (1000m). The 3yo son of Playing God was the medium of strong support first-up and he duly delivered with a commanding victory over Ripcord (Written By) and tearaway leader Krysanova (Bondi). Almighty Class (Photo […]Read More

Playing Games went out an odds-on favourite for the TABtouch Maiden (1000m) at Northam on Sunday and she lived right up to that assessment with a three-length victory untouched under Laqdar Ramoly. The Playing God filly had shown speed on debut in the race won by Eliteone (Ducimus) at Belmont in May and she looked […]Read More

Banjup trainer Michael Grantham can look back on a successful Belmont winter season preparing the likes of Peters Investments winners Arcadia Jewel (NZ), Sentimental Hero, Treasured Queen, Noteworthy (NZ) and Antique Miss. The cerise and white silks also took a road less travelled to Geraldton last Thursday where expensive yearling Best Mood made an auspicious […]Read More

Playing God is back on top of the WA sires’ table two months after claiming his first premiership for Darling View Thoroughbreds. His 4yo mare Baby Paris was instrumental in the takeover on Saturday winning the LR Black Heart Bart Stakes (1200m) at Belmont.  Wearing a distinctive black brow-band with Peter Knuckey aboard, she had […]Read More

Playing God’s 3yo team for the Ascot carnival received a timely reinforcement when the Neville Parnham-trained Zipaway made a winning return from a spell at Belmont on Saturday. Parnham had prepared Playing God to a first-up victory as a 3yo at Belmont in 2010 before graduating to black-type breakthrough in the G2 WA Guineas (1600m). […]Read More

Playing God mare Nunthorpe can join top-class horses like Catchy, Magnus, Sheidel and She’s Extreme who have carried the red and white checked colours of Dorrington Farm owner Robert Crabtree. Nunthorpe (pictured) has looked a black-type winner since a Cranbourne maiden victory last year.  “We’ve always had a good opinion of her,” co-trainer Peter Moody […]Read More

Champion sire Playing God has a 3yo team with potential heading to the Ascot summer carnival and it just got stronger with his Belmont debut winner All Play. Facing the starter for the first time on Wednesday, All Play looked very promising, albeit with a few rough edges, when powering home for Shaun O’Donnell in […]Read More

Nunthorpe is destined for black-type racing this season and Jamie Kah is keen to stay aboard the lightly-raced mare during the Melbourne spring carnival. The 4yo daughter of Darling View Thoroughbreds champion Playing God provided a comeback victory for Kah in the Fierce Impact – Pedigree Physique Performance Hcp (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday. They […]Read More

Oakland Park owners Neville and Susan Duncan teamed up with trainers Ben and Dan Pearce for a winning double with Lord Vampi and Dun With The Blues at Northam on Thursday. Lord Vampi (Playing God) started deep in the red at $1.35 for the Motherland Maiden (1300m) and was untroubled to score by a length […]Read More

Newly-crowned Champion WA sire Playing God had clinched his first premiership long before siring a winning double on the final day of the city season at Belmont. Playing God’s 3yo filly Goddess Of Giving and 4yo gelding Currimundi closed a season to remember for the Darling View Thoroughbreds stallion on Saturday. He sired 43 individual […]Read More