CONTRIBUTORS

John Berry

John Berry spent his childhood in the Scottish Borders and inherited his own parents’ passion for the Sport of Kings. Berry’s career has spanned everything from an amateur jumps jockey, a trackwork rider in Australia and for trainers Luca Cumani and Andy Turnell and working on a stud before taking out a trainer’s license in Newmarket in 1995, taking over Beverley House Stables in 1997. His other activities in Newmarket have included serving on the Town Council for eight years and being the town’s Mayor in 2015/’16.

Alan Carasso

Like so many lovers and followers of sport, it was a champion that secured Alan Carasso’s conversion into “true devotee of horse racing.” For Alan Carasso – who grew up near Arlington Park in Chicago, that champion was ‘the Incomparable, Invincible, Unbeatable Cigar’, who won a Dubai World Cup and Breeders’ Cup Classic as part of a

Richard Edmunds

Richard Edmunds called Auckland home, having been born and raised in the harbourside city. He studied at the University of Auckland and has a master’s degree in political science. Edmunds’ first foray into racing journalism was with NZ racing publication The Informant in 2014 and since departing in 2019, has been involved in a range

Andrew Hawkins

Andrew Hawkins has an enviable journalism resume for just 30 years of age. His passion for racing has seen him attend the world’s biggest race meetings. Hawkins spent five years in Hong Kong, working as a racing content specialist with the HKJC and a reporter and sub-editor for the South China Morning Post, Asia’s largest English-language newspaper.

Satoshi Hiramatsu

Satoshi Hiramatsu has the good fortune of travelling around the world, reporting for the Japanese Racing Association (JRA) and major racing publications.

John Holloway

John Holloway has been involved in many facets of the Australian racing industry: a Sydney Turf Club director, famed racing journalist and bloodstock ‘authority’. His legendary career as a racing writer began in 1959 with the Sydney Sun. Holloway was part of the “Golden Age” of racing journalism counting the likes of Keith Robbins, Ian Heads, Ray Chesterton, Berry is also a regular guest on Sky Sports Racing in the UK, plus a renowned columnist for the Thoroughbred Daily News, Winning Post (Australia) and Al Adiyat (Dubai). Berry’s sincere love for the sport and its myriad stories is obvious from his articles.

Berry has the unique ability to blend academic style with a sense of historic drama. He seems personally interested in the ‘how of everything’, and making

the reader interested too. 16-race winning streak in the 1990s. His 16th straight victory was in the Arlington Citation Challenge at Arlington Park.

Carasso recently celebrated 22 years with The TDN and tries to keep abreast of racing wherever

it happens, from America to Zimbabwe. of freelance roles including with Raceform, the successor of The Informant, plus TDN Aus/NZ and long-standing publication Bluebloods.

At 34 years of age, Edmunds now lives two hours north at One Tree Point on the Whangerei Harbour

with his partner Pippa (and two cats!) He recently spent time home in Australia, as a presenter and tipster for international meetings on Sky Racings and then as a journalist and editor of ANZ. In 2021, Hawkins will return to work for the HKJC on a two and a half year contract. Even at a glance, it’s clear Hawkins lives and breathes racing

and enjoys engaging with fans on Twitter. Hiramatsu is well respected by industry participants as a racing journalist and writer, including leading

jockeys and trainers. Craig Young, Bernie O’Brien, Ken Callendar, Max Presnell, Chris Scholtz and Tony Brassel among his colleagues and peers.

Holloway is always a regular at the yearling sales, assisting vendors and breeders with their drafts and still continues his popular weekly column “Bloodlines” in the Sydney Morning Herald.

Tara Madgwick

Tara Madgwick has never had a job that didn’t involve horses. The co-founder, along with Craig Tompson, of Breednet (2005), Australia’s premier Thoroughbred bloodstock website, Madgwick has ridden since a young age and has fond memories of listening to the races on the radio each Saturday with her parents.

Madgwick has worked with top-class trainers Les Bridge, Colin Hayes, Bede Murray and Gai

Bill Oppenheim

Born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in Wichita, Kansas, Bill Oppenheim has worked in the Thoroughbred business for more than 45 years as an esteemed journalist, market analyst and matings consultant in Kentucky, Europe and New

Tom Reilly

Tom Reilly is chief executive of Thoroughbred Breeders Australia, the peak national body representing the breeding industry, and its promotional arm Aushorse, a position he has held since late 2014. Prior to that, Reilly was the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, one of the youngest in the newspaper’s history when he was promoted at age 35. London-born Reilly has had a lifelong passion for racing and breeding, but also has a deep understanding of

Tim Rowe

The racing spark was first lit for ANZ Bloodstock News journalist Tim Rowe, by his late grandfather – which saw him get his start in the early 2000s at Winning Post newspaper, following his move from Walla Walla to Melbourne for university studies. Rowe feels privileged to speak to so many interesting people from such diverse backgrounds

Andrew Rule

Andrew Rule began journalism as a 17-year-old cadet for the Gippsland Times, where he showed early talent for finding and telling the “story behind the story”. In a long and varied career as a reporter and author, Rule has worked for The Age and The Herald Sun and in radio and documentary production. He has written across a range of topics— from crime and its detection to sport and racing. He co-wrote Leadbelly: Inside Australia’s Underbelly, leading to the popular Underbelly TV series on the Nine Network. He wrote the official biography

Leo Schlink

Growing up on a remote farm between Port Lincoln and Ceduna in South Australia, Leo Schlink says he was always obsessed with sport and intrigued by journalism. The first newspaper he read was The Advertiser and that’s where he did his cadetship in the early 1980s, focusing on sport. Waterhouse. Her experiences also include television and radio work, plus a decade as an Inglis pedigree consultant. Madgwick is passionate about breeding and racing—but above all—the Thoroughbred and away from the chief write and editor of Breednet, she enjoys riding and schooling Off the Track show jumpers with her twins Jack

and Jasmine at Daybreak Farm. Zealand. Bill joined the BloodHorse team in 2017 as a regular columnist, where he discusses topics of interest to the industry, including insights and analysis of bloodstock, breeding and sales from

around the world. media, business and Australian politics. After graduating from University, he spent three years working for the likes of Luca Cumani and Mick Channon in the UK, plus Coolmore Stud in Kentucky and Christophe Clement in New York.

Reilly first visited Australia in 2007 to attend the Melbourne Cup and just two months later, it became his permanent base. Reilly blends his knowledge of overseas and domestic markets, to promote the Australian Thoroughbred and racing industry.

and who have been helpful and willing in sharing their knowledge and educating Rowe in the “nuances of the industry”.

Usually front and centre to the action at major Australian sales, Rowe enjoys capturing the emotions of those involved and putting them to

paper. of media mogul Kerry Stokes. He has also covered major sporting events such as the London Olympics, international disasters such as the 2011 tsunami in Japan and the Christchurch earthquake and has won many awards, including the Gold Walkley and Australian Journalist of the Year.

Rule grew up with horses and has had a lifelong interest in racing. He recently wrote Winx: The Full

Story of the World’s Best Racehorse. were killed in a plane crash in 1999 and reported on the story – which led to an offer to transfer to London as bureau chief in 2002.

Schlink has covered politics, news and sport and counts tennis, cycling and racing as his greatest sporting passions. He won the Walkley Award for Sports Journalism in 2018, following his expose “The Big Fix”, which led to a raft of new integrity measures for Racing Victoria.