Latest News from Mick Sell Racing
Flying Fleurmosa
Apr 22, 2019This flying daughter of Squamosa has been kindly given to us by Anne McCormick to train, we are quite proud of that as Anne is a trainer herself. A late developer she is now a 4 year old mare but repaid all the faith when she won her first start maiden at Ballarat on 9th ...
Perfect Penny
Dec 27, 2018We have always believed Penny had the talent and toughness to be a top class mare and Saturday’s 1600 metre win at Headquarters proved that to all and sundry.A great ride by Robbo enabled her to ease into the race, go through her very talented gears and she then showed the big ...
MASTERFUL LA MAESTRA
Oct 05, 2018La Maestra has taken some time to get racing properly but she showed exactly how much promise she has when she broke their hearts with a masterful lesson in speed this week at Swan Hill. In only her second start she jumped, went to the lead and never looked like being headed ...
RIVER LEE TAKES THE NEXT STEP WITH CLASS
Aug 25, 2018It Is always testing for a horse to progress from a maiden class win to getting the BM64 out of the way. Many horses don’t get there and battle away at BM58 class for their entire career. Yesterday at Bendigo, this titanium tough mare, did exactly this in fairly dominant ...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Aug 19, 2018By all the usual metrics All About Alice should never have seen a racetrack. A tiny girl, she has a deformed hoof that has resulted in her developing such an awkward gait that we worry she’ll be declared lame every time she steps out of her stall. What she has got in spades ...
Jessie pilots Madam home
Aug 05, 2018Stable apprentice Jessie Philpot has become a great asset to Team Sell in quick time. She knows the horses well and that was displayed in spades yesterday as she booted Madam Stryker home in fine style. Madam was nearing her last chance to show us that she wanted to continue ...
Super consistent Mamtricol takes next step
Aug 05, 2018Mamtricol has always had the talent, however, some questioned whether he had the heart early on. Well he’s putting his doubters to shame now as he races in a tough and super consistent manner this prep. He won again at Geelong on the synthetic last week showing them only his ...
Rivers of Vobis Gold for River Lee
Aug 04, 2018River Lee showed great promise winning in a dominant fashion at Geelong during the week. Super Vobis qualified meant an extra big payday for the owners. This Bushranger filly (now mare) showed us good potential at home and we went into the race confident that given luck in ...
It's all happening
Jul 05, 2018It's all action stations with plenty of news to go around. Firstly we would like to warmly welcome JESS PHILPOT to Mick Sell Racing as our newest apprentice we look forward to working hard with Jess to build a bright future with mutual success. Jess is a tough resiliant ...
Top Quality Bargain Lease Horses Available
May 07, 2018Get on board with Team Sell into some cheap lease horses. Very small percentage to owner means more to you for 2 quality bred horses. A 5 year old Gelding "Prince of Rock" and a 4 year old Gelding by Jungle Ruler out of Lady Zephyrene. ...
Brave Carlingford wins again
Apr 24, 2018Carlingford battled tough conditions and a serious eye injury to get up at Seymour recently in a BM78 in poor track conditions. Clods thrown up from the course pierced the cornea of his eye and a liquifying ulcer quickly resulted. Luckily the individual care given by the team ...
Ardra’s Stormy Picket Fence
Apr 24, 2018Ardra Storm is a grumpy mare and she created a storm of controversy when winning at Ararat in February. Some keyboard warriors felt she should never be allowed to race again for her antics on that day. We say it was out of character for her and Robbo did a magnificent job to ...
Knigghts In Shining Armour
May 28, 2015Once upon a time an era ago the team of Mick Sell Racing was non existent. Before Mick became a trainer, a long standing well respected relationship was about to be formed. With breakers and pre-trainers making their way in & out and 3 horses for ...
Local Mare Streets Ahead At Kyneton
Oct 24, 2012Local mare Streets ahead at Kyneton Wednesday, 24 October 2012 Share on twitterShare on facebookShare on emailShare on printMore Sharing Services Print PDF Locally prepared mare Piper Street filled out a long-priced double for Greta West Stud at Kyneton on ...
A Walk Down Piper Street
Oct 23, 2012Piper Street aptly named after the most tourist visited streets in Kyneton won in sensational style today at the none other than NMIT Kyneton Park. She jumped positively and when she got on the bit our apprentice Luke Londregan rated her beautifully taking advantage of his 3kg ...
A Return To Our Home Track
Oct 22, 2012Tomorrow we walk over the road to our home track with three runners. Two of them in Parfume deBelle and Piper Street being first starters and Coin Toss who showed heart in in first start at Pakenham. Good Luck to all connections hopefully we can all have some fun. Craig ...
Sad News
Oct 20, 2012Mick Sell Racing is sad to report that today we lost a horse that showed a lot of promise in his first start for the stable in Golden Assassin. After just being nosed out for a win in his Donald race in a tough head to head competition where the finish got very tight for his ...
Winner Winner!!!!
Oct 19, 2012Today Milwaukee Belle provided us with our first winner back since quarantine. Belle was a dominant winner in Race 2 at Mildura. The word that describes her win best is RELIEF. For all owners and connections concerned it was very pleasing to see her get back to the form she ...
A Stately Return
Sep 02, 2012What a fitting tribute it is that the return for our stable is the evergreen stalwart Stately Dash. He is referred in the form guide as a greybeard veteran try telling him that, Stately is as toey as a young lad on the town. Stately Dash is a fitting return figure for the team ...
Returning to normal
Aug 19, 2012Things have been returning to normal with all the horses returning to the track plus the added bonus of the treadmill. This has been a major coup as they love being on it and it adds another dimension to our training regime. Tomorrow I will upload photos of the horses having a ...
Open for business
Aug 14, 2012This morning we have opened our gates and started working horses on the track. Yahoo the past three weeks have been very trying and felt like an eternity but late yesterday evening we received the much anticipated phone call that gave us the all clear. Currently we have been ...
Stable update
Aug 04, 2012Just a quick update to let everyone know that we are currently trying to develop a plan with RVL to start getting some horses up and moving depending on their status and box positions in the stable. Our vet is really happy with the way our protocols are keeping things quite well ...
Strangles update
Jul 31, 2012What a racing season it has been with a whirlwind high at the beginning of the year to a frustrating gut wrenching blow at the end of the season. The updates I can provide are limited as it is an incredibly slow process. Which horses may become infected is like watching paint ...
Strangles
Jul 26, 2012To all who may not know yet out stable has unfortunetly had a positive diagnosis for strangles or otherwise known as streptococcus equi. We have implemented biosecurity measures and are currently in lockdown quarantine. All relevent authorities have been contacted including DPI, ...