Bombora Downs
A leading Victorian nursery, Bombora Downs is based on the Mornington Peninsula which offers some of Australia’s most fertile soil, a mild climate and reliable rainfall. With decades of experience in the thoroughbred industry, Bombora Downs offers a wide variety of services including stallions, agistment, weaning, transport/walk ons, racehorse spelling, foaling and sales preparation.
105 Myers Road , Bittern, VIC, 3918horses@bomboradowns.com
www.bomboradowns.com
0419 534 961
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Taking his record to four wins and a second from five Caulfield starts, Nick Ryan’s Winnasedge captured Saturday's $200,000 G3 MRC Sir John Monash Stakes (1100m), not only achieving his first stakes victory but becoming the first stakes winner for his multiple G2-winning sire Cliff’s Edge.
As tough and courageous as they come on the racetrack, Cliff’s Edge is making his mark at stud despite being largely overlooked by breeders.
When a young stallion has two winners and two placegetters amongst his first five runners from limited opportunities it is time to sit up and take notice!
You can’t beat timing … especially when it’s a well timed run to notch up an impressive victory on debut.
The 3-year-old filly Escarpa made a winning debut in the Apiam Animal Health Maiden Plate (1000m) at Bendigo on Thursday to credit the multiple Group II winner and $1,180,000 earner Cliff's Edge with his first winner.
Great stories always come out of Warrnambool's famous May carnival and day one of this year's edition produced a beauty - trainer Mark O'Donnell with his two horse stable able to upstage his bigger rivals with his talented four-year-old Prince Sonic recording a tough all the way victory in the 1200m BM70 contest.
It was a very nice turn of foot shown by the promising De Venus at Sale today, the Mark Webb trained four-year-old son of Bombora Downs' De Gaulle racing away to an easy win at just his third outing.
An impressive winner on debut last spring, De Gaulle flyer – Prince Sonic – led throughout for a command performance at Warrnambool on Tuesday … winning by over 2 lengths.
One of the interesting sales on the final day of the recent Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale was lot 720 - an imposing chestnut claimed for $50,000 by Gai Waterhouse, Adrian Bott and Kestrel Thoroughbreds.
There are just two horses in the Warrnambool stables of Mark O'Donnell and whilst one is ten and the other four, they have something in common - both are talented horses who have been given every chance to succeed due to the patience and horsemanship skills of their trainer.
The accolades were flying for the talented Remarque after he lowered the colours of some of Australia's best sprinters in Saturday's Group III Concorde Stakes at Randwick.
It was a tough and brave performance by Madame Du Gast at Geelong on Friday, the lightly raced and promising chestnut back in winning form having not had the best of luck in the lead-up - doing a great job in demanding conditions.
Blue-blood Exceed and Excel stallion De Gaulle posted a debut winner at Moe on Saturday in Rosa’s Revenge and he followed up with another at Cranbourne on Thursday when Bonjour de Gaulle saluted in style.
From a handful of runners, the young Bombora Downs stallion De Gaulle notched his third winner at Moe on Saturday, with the debutant Rosa’s Revenge proving a class above in the 1114m maiden for three-year-old fillies.
The Trevor Rogers-trained filly Madame Du Gast made a winning debut at Flemington on Friday to credit her sire De Gaulle with his first winner and provide a timely update for a full-sister heading to the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale.
She’s yet to hit the race track, but blue eyed and white faced Sapphire Sioux has become something of a sensation after being unveiled on social media last week.
The Whishaw family of Armidale Stud will be biting the fingernails down to the quick as the countdown to Mystic Journey’s historic bid for the Cox Plate draws ever closer but the nerves would have been settled somewhat by the win of the Victoria Derby bound Soul Patch in Saturday's Group II Drummond Golf Vase (2040m).
The great Galileo is now just one Group 1 winner behind Danehill after Coolmore’s royally-bred Cape Of Good Hope (IRE) made a winning Australian debut when edging out a rejuvenated Black Heart Bart in Saturday’s $1,000,000 Group 1 Ladbrokes (Caulfield Stakes (2000m) at Caulfield.
Champion trainer Darren Weir has better horses in his stable than Cliff’s Edge but few with a bigger heart.
Recent Sales For Bombora Downs
2026 Adelaide Yearling Sale - Top price: $18,000
2026 Adelaide Yearling Sale - Top price: $17,000
2026 Digital Sale February 11 2026 - Top price: $600
2026 Digital Sale January 2026 - Top price: $600
2026 Great Southern Weanling Sale - Top price: $170,000
2026 Premier Yearling Sale Book 2 - Top price: $40,000
2025 Adelaide Yearling Sale - Top price: $15,000
2025 Great Southern Sale - Top price: $20,000
2025 Premier Yearling Sale - Top price: $70,000
2025 Premier Yearling Sale Book 2 - Top price: $40,000