Cantonese has been a wonderful advertisement for the skills of Bjorn Baker, yet the gelding still remains somewhat of a mystery to his trainer. He was already five runs into his campaign when he came to Baker’s stable last spring. He went on to have another 10 starts, winning six [...]
Trainer Noel Mayfield-Smith fears the handicapper as much as the opponents of Famous Seamus in the BRC Sprint at Doomben on Saturday. Famous Seamus will be aiming for a winning hat-trick in the Group Three 1350m sprint where he will carry 58.5 kilograms, a rise of one-and-a-half kilograms on the [...]
Vain Queen is the shortest-priced favourite at Flemington on Saturday but her trainer John Sadler still has a distance query on the unbeaten filly over the `straight six’ course. The three-year-old has been an impressive winner of an 1100m provincial maiden and a 1000m sprint up the straight at Flemington [...]
Missy Cummings, the favourite to win the Inglis 3YO Guineas, has been sold a couple of days out from the $500,000 race. Trainer Anthony Cummings, who paid $80,000 for the Magnus filly as a yearling and kept 100 per cent ownership of the now unbeaten three-year-old, revealed that for an [...]
Apprentice Tom Sadler has been grilled over his handling of Supreme Warrior at Sandown on Wednesday, with a senior steward asking him if he had stopped the horse. Sadler’s ride prompted steward Robert Montgomery to ask him directly: “Was the horse trying?” To which Sadler replied: “Are you serious?” Montgomery [...]
If Anthony Cummings was relying on the barrier draws to help him decide where to run Fontelina on Saturday he would have been disappointed. The smart sprinter came up with gate 14 in both the Group Three BRC Sprint (1350m) at Doomben and the Listed Luskin Star Stakes (1300m) at [...]
Gai Waterhouse swept aside the dramas of the More Joyous inquiry and got back to doing what she does best at Canterbury on Wednesday – training winners. Waterhouse unveiled a promising youngster in Cosmic Endeavour who showed her rivals a clean pair of heels to score a dashing all-the-way victory [...]
Stewards have confirmed jockey Brenton Avdulla will appear before the Racing NSW licencing committee on Monday. Avdulla will be quizzed after it was revealed on Wednesday that police and racing officials had been investigating a possible association between the jockey and a member of the Comanchero outlaw motorcycle club. The [...]
A wide barrier and uncharted territory isn’t enough to deter trainer Matt Laurie from wanting to run South Australian Derby winner Escado in Saturday’s Andrew Ramsden Stakes at Flemington. Laurie became the newest member in the Group One-winning trainers’ club when Escado took out the SA Derby last Saturday week. [...]
Group One-placed as a spring three-year-old, Ashokan has been a work in progress since joining the Gai Waterhouse stable. But both his trainer and jockey Nash Rawiller are confident the colt is ready to put it all together when he chases his biggest payday in Saturday’s $500,000 Inglis Guineas (1400m) [...]