I didn't ever get around to putting these images up on the Blog, but here is a little look at the champion racehorse Sepoy, who is about to embark on his first Northern Hemisphere stud season in England.  We photographed him for Darley late in September when he was half way through his first Southern Hemisphere season at Darley's picturesque Kelvinside Stud at Aberdeen, NSW.  The results of our Sepoy stallion photoshoot, which came around all of a sudden.  There's some interesting connections to my photographic library of this little chestnut colt, so I've included the pictorial history. Interestingly, the first time I photographed Sepoy was as a weanling at their Northwood Park Stud just outside of Seymour in March 2009.  I of course had no idea I had done so, until he won the Blue Diamond Stakes in 2010.  Something made me calculate when he would have been a weanling, then in a fit of excitement, I went rushing back through all the images to see whether...

It is officially Slipper Week. I skipped across town this morning, again relentlessly getting my children dressed, fed and ready for school much earlier than usual.  There were pony photographs at stake!  So having done a mafia style drop off to my friend Charo's house, who will take them to school for me (humm, did I actually say goodbye???) I bolted across town heading for Neville Layt's stables and my filly, Karuta Queen, or Lilly as she's known about the stables.   Arriving just before the scheduled time of 8am (hurrah, on time, feel small sense of achievement, however I can usually be on time when there is a pony involved), Karuta Queen was still in her box.  A very lovely journalist, James Buckley, from the Canberra Times was there, along with a photographer from the paper.  James had arranged the reproduction in the Canbera Times of the image I took of the filly after being hosed  in the week before the Black Opal, and he's a nice chap. Kar...