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Redoute's Choice Reaches 100 Stakes Winners

Elite Australian sire Redoute's Choice reached his 100th individual stakes winner Feb. 23 when She's Clean won the Triscay Stakes at Warwick Farm.

 Sunday, February 24, 2013

Sirmione Upends Champ in Australian Cup

The Aus$1million Australian Cup (Aus-I) at Flemington on 8 March marked the end of a magnificent career and the emergence of a new staying superstar.

 Saturday, March 08, 2008
Miss Finland Upset in Futurity Stakes

Miss Finland Upset in Futurity Stakes

Craig Williams, who steered the great Australian Miss Finland to over $4 million in prize money before sensationally and publicly sacked from riding her two weeks back, was smiling broadly half way down the stretch in the group I Futurity Stakes at Caulfield March 1.

 Sunday, March 02, 2008

Maldivian Blasts to Yalumba Victory

Australia's wonder mare, Miss Finland, keeps getting beaten in group I races -- but just as strangely, she keeps winning fans. It happened again Oct. 13 at Caulfield, when Maldivian trounced her to win the Yalumba Stakes (Aus-I).

 Saturday, October 13, 2007
Miss Finland To Target Melbourne Cup

Miss Finland To Target Melbourne Cup

Miss Finland (Redoute's Choice-Forest Pearl by Woodman) will contest the Aus$3.5 million Cox Plate over 10 furlongs at Moonee Valley racecourse in Melbourne Oct. 27.

 Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Rubiscent Takes Underwood Stakes in Upset Victory

Rubiscent Takes Underwood Stakes in Upset Victory

Two of the best jockeys in Australia were outridden by Danny Nikolic, who stole the show on rank outsider Rubiscent in the Underwood Stakes (gr. I) at Caulfield Sept. 22.

 Saturday, September 22, 2007

Sydney Racing Club Floats Quarantine Proposal

The Sydney Racing Club plans to open a quarantine facility that could allow New South Wales horses to compete in major races in Victoria.

 Saturday, September 01, 2007

Arrowfield Stud Tops in Australia

Led by champion filly Miss Finland, Arrowfield Stud topped Australia's list of leading breeders of stakes winners in the 2006-07 season. Arrowfield bred the winners of 19 stakes races, including seven by 3-year-old star Miss Finland. That was well ahead of Gerry Harvey and Gooree Park, who were second and third with 11 and 10 stakes winners, respectively.

 Monday, August 20, 2007

Fiumicino's Australian Derby Win Sets Zabeel Apart

On a rain swept Randwick oval April 7, Fiumicino won the Australian Derby (Aus-I) April 7 to make Zabeel the only stallion to sire four winners of the prestigious race.

 Saturday, April 07, 2007

Two Rich Group I Wins for Aussie Star Damien Oliver

Melbourne's top jockey Damien Oliver wowed them with a pari of group I wins on one of Sydney's biggest racing days March 31, almost on the second anniversary of a race fall which threatened his life and his saddle career.

 Sunday, April 01, 2007

Miss Finland Finally Beats Males in Aussie Guineas

Miss Finland advanced another step in her quest for greatness while defeating the males in the AUS$750,000 Australian Guineas (Aus-I) March 10.

 Sunday, March 11, 2007

Miss Finland Takes Victoria Oaks; Has Other Goals

Miss Finland is set to campaign in the Northern Hemisphere after landing her third major win of 2006 in the Victoria Oaks (Aust-I).

 Thursday, November 09, 2006

Miss Finland Takes Australian Thousand Guineas

Miss Finland regained her territorial right as the leading filly of her age with a last-to-first win in Australia's One Thousand Guineas (Aus-I) at Caulfield Oct. 18.

 Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Miss Finland is Legacy to Sheikh Maktoum

Miss Finland, the 50th winner of the Golden Slipper (Aust-I), is a legacy of an arrangement between Arrowfield Stud principal John Messara and the late Sheikh Maktoum.

 Monday, April 10, 2006

Miss Finland Takes Australia's Golden Slipper

Trainer David Hayes followed in his famous father's footsteps when Miss Finland took out the $3 million Golden Slipper (AUS-I) at Rosehill Gardens Saturday.

 Saturday, April 08, 2006