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ABC News
12 hours ago
- General
- ABC News
Winter is here, which means whales are back
Each winter, thousands of humpback whales migrate from Antarctic feeding grounds to tropical breeding areas along Australia's east and west coasts.
News.com.au
a day ago
- Business
- News.com.au
Champion mare Winx to visit Darley sire Too Darn Hot in spring breeding season
Mighty mare Winx will visit Darley's champion sire Too Darn Hot in the coming spring breeding season. Winx 's ownership group of Peter Tighe, Debbie Kepitis and Elizabeth Treweeke made the much-anticipated announcement on Monday night, ending weeks of speculation about their legendary mare's next mating. 'We are thrilled to announce Too Darn Hot as the stallion of choice for Winx this season,'' said Peter Tighe on behalf of Winx's owners. 'His pedigree, performance and the early success of his progeny align with our long-term vision for Winx's breeding legacy. 'We believe this pairing has the potential to produce something very special.'' • PUNT LIKE A PRO: Become a Racenet iQ member and get expert tips – with fully transparent return on investment statistics – from Racenet's team of professional punters at our Pro Tips section. SUBSCRIBE NOW! Hall of Fame champion Winx, winner of 37 of her 43 starts including her final 33 races in succession highlighted by a world record 25 Group 1 winners, has produced two foals to date – a filly by Pierro that is now a two-year-old named Quinceanera and a colt by Snitzel that will be a yearling next season. Too Darn Hot, a dual hemisphere shuttle stallion, is already the sire of four-time Group 1 winner Broadsiding and multiple stakes winners in his first two Australian crops to race. Winx's ownership group also noted in their press release that Too Darn Hot, a multiple Group 1-winning son of the great Dubawi, has 'quickly established himself as one of Europe's most exciting young stallions.'' 'His progeny has demonstrated early precocity, exceptional athleticism and outstanding temperament – qualities that strongly complement Winx's remarkable racing attributes and pedigree,'' the owners wrote. 🇦🇰 He rewrote the record books. Now he’s back to do it again. #TooDarnHot returns to Kelvinside, NSW in 2025. Read more: — Darley in Australia (@DarleyAus) April 8, 2025 Too Darn Hot's service fee of $275,000 this spring breeding season reflects the demand for the stallion who stands at Darley Kelvinside in the Hunter Valley. Quinceanera, the first foal out of all-time great Winx, created headlines around the racing world when Debbie Kepitis, a part-owner of Winx, went to $10 million – a world record for a yearling filly – to buy back the filly at the Inglis Easter Sale last year. Trainer Chris Waller has Quinceanera in light work at his Rosehill stables but the trainer said the two-year-old would not be rushed to the races over the winter months. 'She's progressing well but she won't be racing as a two-year-old,'' Waller said last week. 'It's unlikely she will even get to a barrier trial this season. Maybe by early August she could get to a trial.'' Tighe said no decision has been made whether Winx's colt by Snitzel will be sold as a yearling next season.
BBC News
4 days ago
- General
- BBC News
Tears of joy as ospreys visit Devon nests on telegraph poles
Conservationists said they "burst into tears" after ospreys landed on special nesting poles in Tamar and Tavy Osprey Project installed the nests on top of 56ft (17m) high telegraph poles in June 2024 on farmland in Warleigh Barton, Plymouth, with the hope it would help the rare birds to breed.A year on from the installation, the group said a female osprey had landed in the Kent, who helped set up the project, said while the birds had still not bred in the nests, the fact an osprey had used them was exciting and made all the work worthwhile. The project said the south-west of England currently had no breeding ospreys, despite the birds being sighted locally for 40 years. 'Something really magical' Ms Kent said the bird which visited had a tag on it which showed the osprey was a female and had travelled from Rutland in the East Midlands via Poole Harbour in said the bird using the nest made the hopes of ospreys breeding locally move "one step closer"."I burst into tears when I saw the osprey land and I was shaking," she said."I was so emotional and so excited that all of the work that we've put in and all of the doubt and all the work we put in came to something really magical."
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Climate
- Yahoo
Recent wet weather could lead to increase in mosquito population this summer
The Brief The recent wet weather could lead to even more mosquitoes this year than usual, an expert said. He's urging everyone to dump standing water. WASHINGTON - All that rain we've had lately? You may not like it – but it turns out a certain type of blood-sucking insect does. The backstory "I think this is the perfect storm for breeding mosquitoes," said University of Maryland Professor Emeritus Michael J. Raupp, also known as "The Bug Guy." Raupp said that because of the recent weather, as temperatures rise, the generation time for mosquitoes will shrink, from about two-plus weeks to roughly one week. "That means with all this standing water, it's going to be the perfect conditions for mosquitoes to breed, and with mosquitoes breeding, there's gonna be biting," Raupp explained. "There will be blood, and it will come soon." What you can do As a result, Raupp is urging everyone to dump all the standing water they can find. "I've got a five-gallon pail behind my tool shed. It is full of water," he said. "If I don't drain that thing within the next ten days, there could literally be thousands of mosquitoes breeding in that container." What they're saying As you might imagine, people weren't thrilled to learn that there could be even more mosquitoes than usual this year. "Not good, not happy," said Nancy, who asked not to give her last name. "Mosquitoes are not wonderful. They do carry diseases, and they buzz and they itch and they're no picnic, at a picnic especially."
News.com.au
27-05-2025
- Business
- News.com.au
Triple Group 1 winner Zougotcha sold for $5.25m at 2025 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale
Three-time Group 1-winning mare Zougotcha will begin her new career in the breeding barn for Coolmore Australia after she was knocked down for a whopping $5.25m at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on the Gold Coast today. Zougotcha, a winner of eight races from just 18 starts and more than $2.6m in prizemoney, was offered for sale by her trainer Chris Waller as agent. • By super stallion Zoustar out of the Fastnet Rock mare Fast Talker, Zougotcha was a $500,000 Inglis Easter Yearling buy who won on debut as a two-year-old at Canterbury before going on to dominate in her three-year-old campaign with victories in the Group 2 Silver Shadow Stakes (1200m), the Group 2 Tea Rose Stakes (1400m) and Group 1 Flight Stakes (1600m). She tasted more Group 1 glory in the spring of 2024 when she followed up her Group 2 Millie Fox Stakes (1300m) victory with slashing wins in the Coolmore Classic (1500m) and Queen of the Turf Stakes (1600m). It’s $5.25 million for Zougotcha. Offered by @cwallerracing she goes to the bid of @TomMagnier. #MMNational2025 — Magic Millions (@mmsnippets) May 27, 2025 Another triple Group 1-winning mare trained by Chris Waller, Atishu, also went through the sales ring, fetching $2.7m from Yulong. Atishu won 11 races, including the Queen Of The Turf, Mackinnon Stakes and Empire Rose Stakes at Group 1 level, and almost $6m in prizemoney A total of 486 lots are being offered at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale. Tom Magnier of Coolmore also shelled out $1.35m to secure the regally-bred former Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman -trained mare Moesha (I Am Invincible-Princess Coup). Moesha was a $650,000 yearling when bought by Rosemont Stud and David Redvers Bloodstock at the 2022 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale. A fantastic result for @TripleCrownSynd and the owners of Revolutionary Miss. The $190,000 Gold Coast Yearling Sale buy earned over $1.8 million on the track and today sold for $1.6 million to Katsumi Yoshida of Japan. — Magic Millions (@mmsnippets) May 27, 2025 Multiple Group 2 and Group 3 -winning mare Revolutionary Miss (Russian Revolution-Purcentage) was another to sell for seven figures, knocked down to Katsumi Yoshida for $1.6m.
