James Bester @JamesBester4 Twitter profile

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

3 years

@CJHopkins_Z23 @ProfTimNoakes My name is James. I live in Australia. I may soon be banned from working, eating at restaurants, travelling by plane, train and bus, attending ceremonies, school, cultural events, and otherwise participating in society, because I refuse to convert to the new official ideology.

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

Wow - lots of talk around but THIS is ‘action’!

Edinburgh Park

@edinburgh_park

5 years

This brand is our guarantee for life. We will purchase guarantee $1000 @mmsnippets @inglis_sales or privately on any of our horses that carry our brand. Our children can always come home , it’s our promise to them. Stamped for success with the IKS 🌈🌈🌈👌👌👌

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

SUBZERO needs no more eulogy than these 1000 words...

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

3 years

‘Nuff said!

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

3 months

JUSTIFY - as yearling. Hindquarter dominates - big, square, great ‘hip’ (and we know that ‘hips don’t lie’). But check out also that long, strong forearm AND long, strong gaskin atop short canons. (Long) gaskins don’t lie! Some prefer more ‘girth’ but, hey, he won a Triple Crown!

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

They’re never too small to race (or to breed)! Often ‘too small’ to sell...

Anaglogs Daughter

@AnaglogsDaughtr

5 years

The pony-sized Northern Dancer possibly the greatest stallion of the 20th century GOODNIGHT

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

JUSTIFY: I’d have the same ‘spring in my step’ if I heard that the equivalent of SUNLIGHT, INVINCIBELLA and CHAMPAGNE CUDDLES were bound for my ‘chamber’!

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

Coolmore leading vendor, Coolmore boss Tom Magnier leading buyer - what does that say about support for an industry in the toughest of times; three cheers, I’d have thought!

ANZ Bloodstock

@anz_news

4 years

LEADING BUYER: Congratulations to @TomMagnier who was the leading buyer at the conclusion of Day 1 of the @inglis_sales Easter Yearling Sale, purchasing 5 lots for an aggregate of $2,595,000.

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

Cometh the hour, cometh the man - in crises, some step up while others run for cover. Bravo Coolmore, bravo Tom Magnier, MV Magnier, John Magnier - and all others - who all made a conscious and deliberate effort to support Inglis and the industry at large in their hour of need!

ANZ Bloodstock

@anz_news

4 years

LEADING BUYER: Congratulations to @TomMagnier who was the leading buyer at the conclusion of the @inglis_sales Easter Yearling Sale, he purchased 8 lots for an aggregate of $6,895,000.

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

Stars aligning - Star Witness’s best daughter, GLOBAL GLAMOUR, well and truly in foal to ZOUSTAR, at WIDDEN STUD with James Bester and Antony Thompson. #itsallaboutthegirls

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

You’ve come a long way, baby! From brought down close home in the Fernhill as a 2yo to 4th win today from last 5 starts... PERSAN!

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

Zoom in on ‘Sarah the carer’...

Magic Millions

@mmsnippets

4 years

The photo says it all. Sunlight's long time track rider, strapper and companion Sarah Rutten breaks down after putting her champion back in the stable after selling for $4.2 million today. #LoveHorses #Sunlight #MMNational2020 #Emotion @widdenstud @mcevoymitchell

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

DELIGHTED with my first foal - of 5 expected - by JUSTIFY! Also the first foal of So You Think mare CORAL COAST (Gr.3-placed; 4th Gr.1 QLD Oaks). Have NINE revisiting him this year on strength of what I’ve seen so far - must be the best-value horse in Aus.. in my opinion anyway!

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

6 years

Here’s why I bang on about ‘pelvic length’, ‘hip-to-hock’ length and short canons - for the pre-thrust LEVERAGE they provide horses like Redkirk Warrior, etc.!

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

The ‘head of a princess, butt of a washer woman and walk of a hooker’ - still as good a formula as any for selection of a filly!

Legs

@legs1414

5 years

⁦ @mmsnippets ⁩ ⁦ @JamesBester4 ⁦ @ItsAllAbttheGrl ⁩ purchased this beautiful filly lot 278 for ITS ALL ABOUT THE GIRLS💃🐎💃🐎💃🐎

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 months

JUSTIFY - sire of 2YOs? Ya think! 🤔 1) City Of Troy - champ 2yo colt EUR 2) Opera Singer - champ 2yo filly EUR 3) Just FYI - champ 2yo filly elect USA 4) Ramatuelle - best 2yo filly FRANCE 5) Learning To Fly - best 2yo filly AUS 6) Storm Boy - best 2yo colt in AUS? 👇

FanDuel Racing (Formerly TVG)

@FanDuel_Racing

5 months

STORM BOY ⚡ WAS ELECTRIC! This Justify ( @coolmoreAUS ) colt, ridden by Adam Hyeronimus, easily took the $3 million Magic Millions 2yo Classic at @GCTurfClub | @SkyRacingWorld . @GaiWaterhouse1 and A Bott trained. He is Justify's first winner of a juvenile feature/major in AUS.

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

Sad ☹️ they shut down the world, concerned 😦 they shut down economies and enraged 😡 that Andrews et al stole our freedoms, for a ‘cost/risk play’ like THIS! 0.05% - wonder what Churchill, Eisenhower, De Gaulle etc. might have thought of this mob! Not just Americans either👇

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@JamesBester4

3 years

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

How does a mare give all in a Cox Plate, back up 10 days later in a Melbourne Cup, using it as a ‘Tuesday gallop’ for a Gr.1 victory like this 4 days later? Answer: GALILEO, O’BRIEN and MOORE! (with help from TJ Comerford & team).

Tom Magnier Coolmore

@TomMagnier

5 years

Coolmore’s Magic Wand (Galileo) gets her Gr.1 in the McKinnon Stakes at Flemington under a great ride from Ryan Moore.

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

DANCING BRAVE still the best I ever saw live (and I’m an old man now!); maybe FRANKEL could have competed (at Guineas level and up to 2000m) but wouldn’t have won THAT ‘Arc’ where DB’s acceleration nearly left rider Pat Eddery flat on his arse behind him!

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

6 years

Let’s start with superhero JUSTIFY! Buying or rejecting young horse on x-rays - or even ‘pages’, for that matter - is just plain silly; trust your ‘eye’ and trust their ‘physiques’, their ‘actions’, their ‘minds’... they’re ATHLETES!

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

Would QCAT and Queensland education authorities allow a teacher with 37 charges of child abuse pending to continue teaching under a drawn-out stay of proceedings while further charges continued to accumulate? Inaction on integrity and animal welfare issues does racing no good!

RSN Racing & Sport

@RSN927

5 years

READ | Everything And Nothing Is Happening In Currie Case. @Mattunchained RSN Racing Editor

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

6 years

Justify (Triple Crown, inbred to Narrate), Masar (Epsom Derby, inbred to Urban Sea), Forever Together (Epsom Oaks, inbred to Special), Frankel, Winx, Makybe Diva (like Danehill, all inbred to Natalma) - are great examples of ‘Rasmussen Factor’ inbreeding to superior females!

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

3 years

WOOTTON BASSETT Already in foal: Avantage Celebrity Queen Champagne Cuddles Invincibella Mizzy Quafila Rezoned Fabergino Faint Perfume Fashions Afield La Bella Diosa Sunlight etc… Holding service: Global Glamour Hips Don’t Lie Nakeeta Jane O’Marilyn Samaready Muntaseera etc…

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

6 years

GLOBAL GLAMOUR’s retirement so bittersweet. Awesome athlete; 65k purchase, 2xGr.1, 2xGr.2, champion 3yo; 1.5m earned (and similar ‘residual’); well bred by O’Briens’ Lauriston; great training Gai/Adrian; great owners Legs, Anna Seitz and Itsallaboutthegirls; #dreamsaremadeofthis

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

3 years

The morning after: ACROBAT, near side, Emma Pugsley up (who educated him at Coolmore) stepping out under the admiring eye 👁 of a proud (mankini-less) part-owner.

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

Who’d have thought... 6th win today from past 9 starts (inc. three 2nds) - up off the canvas and now a Melbourne Cup contender; atta boy, Persan!

James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

You’ve come a long way, baby! From brought down close home in the Fernhill as a 2yo to 4th win today from last 5 starts... PERSAN!

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

6 years

Why do stewards need to ‘nanny’ the punters? Those backing him would be well aware he may not ‘jump’; can they not decide for themselves whether to risk the consequently-longer odds?

Shane Anderson

@Globalgallop

6 years

Chautauqua is just a freak. Frustratingly good. Would love him back on the track. @Racing #LetHimRace

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

So proud of Coolmore through all this - for some it goes beyond ‘self’ and into the realm of commitment to an industry fighting for its existence. Talk of ‘setting an example’!

TTR AusNZ

@TTRAusNZ

4 years

At the end of Lot 514, the 2020 @inglis_sales Easter Yearling Sale has grossed $68,060,500. The highest priced Lot 447 a Snitzel colt from @SledmereStud sold for $1.8M. The average was $334,300 & Median $260,000. @TomMagnier was the leading buyer & @CoolmoreAus the leading vendor

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

PHAROAH 2yo filly REFRAME winning in Japan today; wayward she was but also way too good, despite veering the width of the track!

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

2 years

CHURCHILL - champion 2yo and dual Gr.1 Guineas-winning 3yo gets 5-length Gr.1 French Derby winner, Classic hero Vadeni, in his first 3yo crop!

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 months

JUSTIFY - another Champion 2YO… has any sire EVER boasted 👇 1) Champion 2yo colt, Europe 2) Champion 2yo filly, Europe 3) Champion 2yo filly, in USA 4) Champion FR-based 2YO 5) Best 2YO filly in Australia 6) Best 2YO colt in Australia

NTRA

@NTRA

4 months

Congratulations to 2023 Champion Two-Year-Old Filly, Just F Y I! #EclipseAwards Jockey: Junior Alvarado @juniorandkellyA Trainer: Bill Mott Owner: George Krikorian Breeder: George Krikorian Photo Credit: Susie Raisher

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

Winner by 6.5 lengths, 3yo filly PISTA is AMERICAN PHAROAH’s 50th winner - in 7 countries - and 10th in the last 10 days; she’s out of a GALILEO mare. See how she strides! 👇

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

3 years

Couldn’t have said - any of - it better! And ‘the reckoning’ looms…

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

6 years

Global Glamour awesome 4-length winner of Randwick trial this morning - time some 6 lengths better that any other 1045m trial winner; now aims at either $1m 1200m Snippets Sprint or 1300m Fillies/Mares at Magic Millions - sorry guys but it’s all about the girls!

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

ENABLE - ears; nostril; girth; ‘hip’!

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

Teach him to ski - he can do everything else!

Coolmore America

@coolmoreamerica

4 years

Triple Crown Champion Justify is enjoying a snowy morning out in his paddock at Ashford. #CoolmoreSires #HomeOfChampions

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

Easy to see where JUSTIFY gets his speed, why Henry Field called him “a Golden Slipper type yearling”, why Bob Baffert still marvels at “that hindquarter” and why Steve Haskin hailed him “a towering, muscular, Adonis of a horse.” Usain Bolt-like in physique and performance!

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

3 years

AMERICAN PHAROAH, we warned, has “best yet to come” (70+ unraced 3yos): Since then… HEAD OF STATE wins Gr.3 Gloaming, now fav Gr.1 Spring Champion… KING of PHARAOHS wins by 9l… MRS AMERICA effortless on debut for Bob Peters… KHUFU, LADY KOVAL in NZ (WILD CALM to Gimcrack) and

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

2 years

Great head, great physique - Robert McClure at Flemington this morning. Home Affairs looked pretty good too!

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

Wow - there’s a hindquarter and gaskin to propel a missile!

STEVE HEWLETT 🏇🎣 🛥👩‍🦳📻🏃‍♂️

@stevejoseph69

4 years

Rob Heathcote text this AM ; Rothfire in his Randwick stable. Hes looking good 🐎🔥🐎🔥🐎 @RadioTABAus

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

We will all miss this kind, wise and unfailingly cheerful and optimistic man - as indomitable a spirit as ever resided in a human soul.

Coolmore Australia

@CoolmoreAus

5 years

Vale, Ken Barry. It is with the deepest sadness that we heard this morning of the passing of Coolmore Australia Chairman...

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

7 years

Pierro filly Notting Hill (xMonsoon Wedding, full sister to Redoute’s Choice) after good trial win Newcastle this morning - another bred on that magic Pierro x Danehill cross, as are all 7 of Pierro’s ‘stakes horses’ to date, including Pinot, Tulip, Levendi, Kentucky Breeze, etc.

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

Good guy, Mark Zahra - even Glyn Schofield said that to me today; but he could so very easily have KILLED two jockeys and two horses (one of them mine) with riding that the Stewards deemed - and even Mark himself admitted - to be ‘negligent’. Take your punishment like a man, son!

Andrew Bensley

@AndrewBensley

5 years

Jockey Mark Zahra has now decided to appeal the severity of the penalty he received from Saturday’s first race at Randwick. Zahra was given a 25 meeting suspension plus a $3800 fine by Racing NSW stewards for his part in the fall close to the winning post.

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

I don’t think James had any idea who James was that year!

Bronwen Healy Photography

@FamousPony46

4 years

Finding photos while backing up old hard drives. James Bester, Sandown Racecourse Nov 2007. I don’t think I had any idea who James was when I took it.

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

What happened to “GALILEO doesn’t ‘work’ in Australia”? And his sons boast Happy Clapper, Kermadec, Funstar, etc. amongst Gr.1 winners here. Man oh man - just wait till superstar CHURCHILL lets loose; you’d hardly believe how good his first-crop foals are!

ANZ Bloodstock

@anz_news

5 years

Southern France on the back-up from the Melbourne Cup provides champion stallion Galileo ( @coolmorestud ) a Melbourne Spring Carnival Group 2. Galileo has sired two Grp1s this carnival, Cape Of Good Hope and Magic Wand.

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

PRIDE OF DUBAI - now the pride of Coolmore Australia with a debut Listed SW from first Aus runner TANKER (no doubt Gr.1 Blue Diamond-bound) after first NZ runner a winner and Karaka Million-bound! Can’t start better than that! IS THIS THE NEXT ‘BIG GUN’? And is your mare booked?

7HorseRacing 🐎

@7horseracing

5 years

Tanker rocketed at the straight to win the first at Caulfield. Son of Pride Of Dubai Blue Diamond. @cmaherracing @eustacedj

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

Bloody x-rays... god bless them! Charge Forward filly went from ‘high risk’ weanling to ‘low risk’ yearling (helps to have a good vet for a wife). A stunning individual (the filly, not the wife) whose ‘worth’ on each occasion was pre-determined by a set of films; can’t be right!

Tara Madgwick

@breednet

5 years

Inglis Classic Pinhook Winners @NewhavenPark @inglis_sales @LimeCountryAU @StudValiant @FergalConnolly1 @BownessBoss @ThreeBridges1 @RosemontStud @SledmereStud @VineryStud @mmsnippets

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

7 years

Royal Family: Pinot - G1 VRC Oaks; dam Dizelle G1 AJC Oaks; grandam Danelagh - G1 Blue Diamond; next dam Palatious - G1 Perth Cup.

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

A tale as old as time...

The Thoroughbred

@thethoroughbred

4 years

Amazing. Black Caviar’s four foals 3YO and older have won three minor races between them. Naturale was unraced and leaves a G1 champion colt from her first foal.

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

Best filly, best physique, most speed and toughest and bravest bitch (wife aside) that I’ve ever had anything to do with!

Gary King

@garykingTDN

5 years

Global Glamour will be offered in foal to #Zoustar ( @widdenstud , @Tweenhills ) at @mmsnippets . Good luck to @legs1414 and the entire syndicate. @theTDN @TDNAusNZ

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

DECLARATION OF WAR (by War Front) - sire of VRC Derby winner, 2019 and Melbourne Cup winner 2019; pity Aus breeders - and, more significantly, buyers - didn’t cop on to his potential a little earlier or he might still be here, rather than in Japan. BTW, I too ‘missed the boat’!

Racing.com

@Racing

5 years

Vow And Declare looks amazing after his #MelbourneCup run. 🙌🙌 #LoveTheHorse

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

PIERRO now has TWO confirmed slot fillers in The Everest - ARCADIA QUEEN and PIERATA. Not bad for a young sire - the best young ‘Classic’ sire in Australia, actually - with eldest runners only 4yos!

TAB

@tabcomau

5 years

Star WA filly Arcadia Queen is a confirmed starter in the $14 million Everest at Randwick in October! #TheTABEverest

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

6 years

Wanna breed a Merchant Navy, Vancouver, Pinot or Unforgotten? How ‘bout a Pierata, Le Romain, Grunt or Nature Strip? Maybe a Northern Dancer, Secretariat, Sadler’s Wells, Galileo or even Danehill? Wanna breed an Aus or NZ sale-topper? Gotta mate your mares in Nov or Dec (equiv)!

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

They just keep getting better! Stunning JUSTIFY filly out of Gr.3-winning 2yo ENNIS HILL, the full sister to SW and Gr.1 Blue Diamond and Gr.1 Golden Slipper place-getter LAKE GENEVA.

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

10 months

ACROBAT - wow 😯; stunning colt born this morning out of good city-class 2yo Navua Mist (family of Air Force Blue). Check out that head (not the grey, ‘thinning’ one) and bold look! Mare already booked back (as is dam of his first foal, x Irresistible Miss… 👇

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

And to think I thought I was alone...

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

3 years

AMERICAN PHAROAH - loaded and ready to fire!

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

Oh the irony! Angus Gold bid 300k on this filly for Sheikh Hamdan (despite a policy against 1st-crop sires like Press Statement). Ciaron Maher bid 320k but Brad and Darren Weir outbid them at 340k. Darren banned, Ciaron inherits filly and she beats the filly Angus bought Sheik!

Tara Madgwick

@breednet

4 years

Press Statement's highest priced first crop yearling made a winning debut on Saturday, Incredulous Dream saluting for Spicer Thoroughbreds @VineryStud @mmsnippets @AquisFarm @SpicerTbreds @SamuelPOrton

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

Don’t be afraid of the humane solution - SPCA puts down a huge number of dogs daily - humanely - and no-one questions its (admirable) motives or tries to stop ‘dog ownership’. The biggest villain here is the ‘method’ adopted.

Sheamus Mills

@SMBloodstock

5 years

Hate when people identify problems without offering solutions so here are some practical ideas for @RacingAust @RacingInsider @racing_nsw in the wake of an issue that poses the greatest threat ever to the racing industry.

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

6 years

Well they need to know US NAVY FLAG isn’t here to play marbles!

SKY Racing

@SkyRacingAU

6 years

Coolmore's James Bester reckon's U S Navy Flag is going to serve it right up to Redzel in #TheEverest . Tune in to Sky Thoroughbred Central Tuesday nights at 7.30pm for Trek to #TheEverest .

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

A foal to light up any eye! Gorgeous JUSTIFY colt out of Fastnet Rock mare LAKE GENEVA (SW; 3rd Gr.1 Golden Slipper, 3rd Gr.1 Blue Diamond) - 3 hours old here!

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

If those sad, angry, imbecilic ‘anti’s out there could read and appreciate stories like this... (they wouldn’t BE sad, angry, imbecilic ‘anti’s).

Tara Madgwick

@breednet

5 years

A nick that clicks, an $800 mare and a girl that loves horses, this story has something for everyone @StudLarneuk @vicbreeders @GregEurell @SkyRacingAU @Racing @CaroSearcc @inglis_sales

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

PIERRO - another Gr.1!

SKY Racing

@SkyRacingAU

5 years

The 2019 G1 Railway belongs to Regal Power! 👑💪 Grant and Alana Williams do it again with the Wizard Willie Pike keeping it local and holding off the East-Coast raider, Best Of Days ⚪💖⚪ #AscotGoodTimes @PerthRacing @OfficialRWWA

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

2 years

How to win a free FERRARI… 1) buy the JUSTIFY filly x Global Glamour (lot 78, MM) - with the hue of Justify’s sire Scat Daddy… 2) be first to win a designated G1 (dam 🏆 G1 Flight S. & 1000 Gns)

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

2 years

CHURCHILL - now TWO hugely impressive 2yo ‘city’ winners in Aus from his first handful of starters!

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

The mine threatens the water table; NO WATER, NO LAND! (blasting aside) Imagine, in this day and age, the Planning Commission wanting to prioritise short term, noxious, environmentally disastrous COAL MINES over century-old, pristine, environmentally-friendly AGRICULTURAL LAND!

Caroline

@CaroSearcc

4 years

Bred To Win tonight 8.30pm AEDST ⁦⁦ @SkyRacingAU ⁩ on how you can make a submission to assist ⁦ @HunterBred ⁩ studs ⁦ @coolmorestud ⁩ ⁦ @TomMagnier ⁩ & ⁦ @godolphin ⁩ ⁦ @DarleyAus ⁩ in the fight to keep a new mine away from this prime agricultural land

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

6 years

Another pic of G1 Blue Diamond hope Ennis Hill, with dam Hips Don’t Lie at Coolmore; check out those awesome hips and gorgeous heads on both mother and daughter!

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

@Racing @jamieleekah07 @Clarken_Racing Please take those bloody apostrophes out of plurals - more than one South Australian are South Australians, not South Australian’s; you’re setting a bad example for other journalists (not journalist’s), for our youth and for Australians (not Australian’s) in general. Stop it now!

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

1 year

Atta girl; and what a ride, Blake ! @blake_shinn ; remember your win on Wolf Cry for us in those black ‘n green colours! Stick with her buddy and make us all famous! @Morningrisestud @kiaorastud

Black Type Racing

@BreedingRacing

1 year

Barnstorming run from @FreedmanRacing 's De Sonic Boom with the @supremethbds @inglis_sales Premier sold daughter of @eurekastud 's Spirit Of Boom earning valuable black type on debut, winning the Gr3 Blue Diamond Preview (F) @JamesBester4 @Morningrisestud @kiaorastud @QldBreeders

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

Awesome Nature Strip, fastest horse in Australia; then how about PIERRO’s son PIERATA - how good is he! Imagine a sire who specialises in ‘classic’ horses also able to get one as fast as this!

Brent Zerafa

@brentzerafa

5 years

Character building

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

I worked and lived with Robert on the Isle of Man through a small bit of this period and nothing I ever do (outside of kids - and wives -😁) will ever match the excitement and adrenaline of those days!

Swettenham Stud

@SwettenhamStud

4 years

Thanks to @theTDN for reminding us all about this timeless read for any racing enthusiast. #HORSETRADER

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

Those two fighting out the finish are by Australian-bred ‘turf’ sires Helmet (Exceed & Excel) and PIERRO’s sire Lonhro. So much for the supposed turf/dirt divide! (and Winx, remember, is by USA ‘dirt’ horse Street Cry). Go figure...

At The Races

@AtTheRaces

5 years

What a race! Back-to-back wins for Thunder Snow in the $12 million #DubaiWorldCup ! #DWC19

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

11 months

SO YOU THINK - a living legend 👇

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

Australians are NOT stupid...

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

A million-dollar yearling with Gr.1 entries - by AMERICAN PHAROAH and wins like THIS; my cup runneth over!

Racing TV

@RacingTV

4 years

Easy as you like. $1.2m filly Elfin Queen (American Pharoah) holds big entries and opens her account very nicely for @Ballydoyle at @NaasRacecourse Results ➡

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

3 months

HAYASUGI - and here’s why we do it! Congrats @shanemcgrath78 and Alex and Josiah (and the wives for whom this filly was bought); masterful training performance by @cmcdonaldracing and wow, can @jamieleekah07 ride! Congrats breeder @mike_fairfarm !

Inglis

@inglis_sales

3 months

The connections of Hayasugi who couldn’t be @MelbRacingClub today for her G1 Blue Diamond win gathered together in Hong Kong. And didn’t they love what they saw unfold! @7horseracing @Racing @JaseRicho @cmcdonaldracing @JamesBester4 @shanemcgrath78

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

Courtesy of Jim Carey: an excerpt from Horse Trader (I think) ... and wisdom way beyond just the highlight.

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

6 years

Well done Kris Lees - master horseman who puts his horses and owners’ interests first, ‘places’ his horses to perfection and gets the job done on the big days; deserving of every bit of success that comes his way!

Lees Racing

@Leesracing

6 years

.Thanks to the slot holders we now have 3 runners heading #TheEverest for the connections #InHerTime #Graff #LeRomain Grateful to be apart of such a wonderful concept @racing_nsw @tabcomau @atc_races

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

Glorious; interestingly, check out her pasterns as she walks by and away from the camera; those would be ‘faulted’ in Australia - just goes to show how futile are some of our observations at the yearling stage!

Kitty Trice

@KittyTrice

5 years

Enable. What more can you say? An absolute superstar. #queen

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

AMERICAN PHAROAH has TWO winners - and TWO Royal Ascot-bound runners - already, on TWO continents (EUR turf and USA dirt) from TWO of his first three runners (other was 3rd, after leading). He was a dual-Gr.1 Champion 2yo, remember, long before the Triple Crown and Breeders Cup.

Tara Madgwick

@breednet

5 years

Triple Crown Hero American Pharoah gets his first US winner, Maven salutes for Wesley Ward, Royal Ascot next @CoolmoreAus @coolmorestud @inglis_sales @mmsnippets

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

6 years

Fastnet Rock’s finest moment as Merchant Navy caps the career of the best sire in the Southern Hemisphere! Like Hinchinbrook (and Snitzel), he is out of a mare by speed demon and ‘damsire of sires’ Snippets; here, surely, is the real successor to Fastnet himself!

Tom Magnier Coolmore

@TomMagnier

6 years

Ireland won the rugby but an Australian horse won the Diamond Jubilee @Ascot for Aidan O Brien & Coolmore 🇦🇺🍀

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

Don’t normally do this BUT: Cafe Nino, Ocean Street, Woolahra - penne lobster (alio, olio, peperoncino in a white wine sauce)... perfecto! This is not an advertisement - but a pleasure shared is a pleasure doubled. Bring your own Bordeaux!

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

Oh, those FASTNET ROCK fillies! PERSONAL now 2nd Blue Diamond, Gr.1 (1200m); 2nd 1000 Guineas, Gr.1 (1600m); 2nd Wakeful S., Gr.2 (2000m) and 1st VRC Oaks, Gr.1 (2500m)!

Racing.com

@Racing

4 years

Damien Oliver you are the master. His 122nd Group 1. Personal wins the Kennedy Oaks giving Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig their first G1 in their new partnership. 🙏 @FlemingtonVRC @Lindsayparkrace

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

1 year

JUSTIFY! And FASTNET ROCK grandparent of all the first three home! Damsire of 1st and 3rd; grandsire of 2nd (via son MERCHANT NAVY)👇

Black Type Racing

@BreedingRacing

1 year

No better way for @CoolmoreAus Justify to record his first Aus winner than with victory by @ANeashamRacing 's filly Learned To Fly in the Gr3 Widden Stakes on debut. @kiaorastud @ColmSantry @SchofieldChad @Rob_Arch1 @TomMagnier @coolmoreamerica @JamesBester4 @inglis_sales

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

6 years

Dam (by Galileo) was trained as polo pony by James Archibald, destined for Brunei, when full sister, champion IGUGU, first flagged ability and changed course of Gayika’s life; now sister to 3 SWs in IGUGU, HONORIUS and NGAGA and dam herself of this G2 wnr TARKA! 🥇 🍾 David Payne

ANZ Bloodstock

@anz_news

6 years

Tarka (All Too Hard) gets the photo finish over Dealmaker (Dundeel) in the Group 2 Stan Fox Stakes for @DPayneRacing with The Autumn Sun (Redoute’s Choice) having no luck in third. Tarka becomes @VineryStud resident All Too Hard’s 6th individual stakes winner.

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

3 years

Sir Winston: “Strong and bold, with an intelligent eye and plenty of substance - is this a Churchill?”

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

6 years

Due and deserved respect for STARSPANGLEDBANNER, a top-class proven sire with serious contenders in both THE EVEREST and G1 Thousand Guineas - from so few progeny and standing in Aus this season at only $10,000 #bestvaluesireinAustralia

Coolmore Australia

@CoolmoreAus

6 years

€300,000 for Starspangledbanner colt. Brendan Holland of Grove Stud believed that the Starspangledbanner colt he offered at Goffs on Tuesday was one...

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

Horses like this... people like this... is why I live for racing - well done David and Emma, well done Alligator Blood (and well done to whomever named him)!

Racing.com

@Racing

4 years

"We spend 24/7 with these animals... I just adore him." What an animal he is. Alligator Blood is quickly becoming a force to be reckoned with on the track, but to Emma Lehmann, he's so much more than that. 💚🐊 #LoveTheHorse

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

Makes you think... doesn’t it? Value fee!

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

My own idea of the best horse I ever saw race and this his crowning moment, beating the best Arc field I’ve yet seen. And, oh, the WAY he did it - Pat Eddery nearly blew off his back when he accelerated under him!

Chris

@cmoreton99

5 years

With sectionals of 27.30, 23.90, 26.00, 24.30, 23.40 & 22.80 (11.4 +11.4), DANCING BRAVE provided the decades greatest moment for European flat racing when winning the 1986 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe from the strongest field the race had offered for years.

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

If you are a horse racing person please join the challenge of posting a racing photo. Just one picture, no description. Please copy the text in your status, post a picture and look at some great memories/pictures

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

6 years

An absolute farce, now that you mention it - no wonder racing in VIC is coming apart at the seams and has trainers, owners and everyone else in despair. Is anyone awake at the wheel? Can we lend you V’landys and other of our NSW administrators? Just sayin...!

Lindsay Park Racing

@lindsayparkrace

6 years

Wodonga trials concluded over 6.5 hours ago and replays are still not available @Racing . NSW trials are shown live. Owners have been waiting all day to see their horses. This is not good enough. DAH

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

Closest thing I’ve yet seen to PHAROAH himself!

Coolmore America

@coolmoreamerica

4 years

American Pharoah In Demand at Magic Millions. The first day of the 2020 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale in Australia proved to be a...

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

PHAROAH ‘s 23rd winner - another on turf.

Coolmore America

@coolmoreamerica

5 years

American Pharoah is on fire, 3 winners in 3 days! Royal Act produced a professional performance to win impressively on debut at @DelMarRacing for @EurtonRacing & CRK Stable. Bred by @StonehavenSS Royal Act was a $500k @keenelandsales yearling. Congratulations to all connections!

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

3 years

‘Evidence’ anyone? 30+ studies........ BMJ, Lancet, etc. Do Lockdowns Work? The Literature - InProportion2

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

5 years

AMERICAN PHAROAH’s 2yo son TURNED ASIDE an easy winner over 1200m at Aqueduct NY for trainer Linda Rice; watch this big-striding colt clear out for his second win.

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

6 years

I saw this colt as a foal at Balfey’s place and thought he was a goner - couldn’t believe how he got to the sales and still can’t believe how he’s turned out! Good read.

The crippled colt now a rising star

When emerging star Danawi (Exceed and Excel {Aus}) steps out in Saturday's G2 The Daily Telegraph Stan Fox S. at Rosehill, farrier James Balfe will be more than just an interested on-looker.

www.ttrausnz.com.au

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James Bester

@JamesBester4

4 years

PRIDE... OF... DUBAI... now a sire of 1st-crop SWs in both hems!