In-form mare Lady Laguna has turned giant killer, upsetting Everest winner Think About It and top mare Espiona to land her first major in the Canterbury Stakes. Her jubilant trainer Annabel Neasham said while she wasn’t expecting the win, she also wasn’t entirely surprised given the set-up of Saturday’s Group 1 race. “I can believe… Read More »
Godolphin colt Traffic Warden has defied a wide draw and a jinx on Blue Diamond Stakes participants to claim an all-the-way win in the VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes at Flemington. Jumping from the widest gate under Jamie Kah in the Group 2 contest over 1400m for two-year-olds, Traffic Warden showed tremendous early… Read More »
The Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman-trained Autumn Angel has overcome a luckless first-up run to score in a Stakes race at Flemington. Moody queried whether the filly had the fitness on her side prior to the running of the Group 2 Kewney Stakes (1600m) on Saturday after her first-up run at… Read More »
Jockey Jamie Kah was moved to tears after guiding Cylinder to an emotional win in the Newmarket Handicap at Flemington on Saturday. It was the second successive win in the Group 1 feature handicap over 1200m for the ‘Royal Blue’ colours of Godolphin after In Secret took out the race last year. Kah… Read More »
An unexpected e-mail from Racing Victoria had Taranaki based trainer Robbie Patterson reaching for the phone to call the owners of Puntura to tell them their horse had received a late invitation to compete in the $4 million All-Star Mile at Caulfield on March 16. It was too good a… Read More »
A jockey has been handed a six-month ban following his involvement in betting on horse races. Dale Evans, a seasoned jockey with a remarkable career spanning 14 years and nearly 1,000 wins, underwent an inquiry in Queensland, Australia, prompted by information provided to stewards by two prominent betting operators. Evans… Read More »
David Vandyke is arguably one of the most astute trainers in the country. One of his biggest assets is his patience and the finely measured way in which he brings his horses along, trying not to push any horse beyond its capabilities at any given time, having long since mastered… Read More »
Kris Lees continued his recent dominance of the Group 3 Newcastle Stakes as Rustic Steel provided the local trainer with his fifth win in the 1400-metre feature in the past six editions. Ridden by Sam Clipperton , the six-year-old speared to the lead in the early stages to overcome being posted out wide… Read More »
Aztec Ruler has yet to realise his trainer’s ambition, a couple of hiccups and small setbacks has stymied his progress. But, the horse has talent and started to show that flair last year in the winter during a Belmont campaign. The Universal Ruler four-year-old made it to seven races in two… Read More »
When Robert Heathcote last brought a feature race runner to the Gold Coast, he walked away having trained the winner of the $3 million Magic Millions Guineas courtesy of Abounding’s committed finishing effort in a pressurised battle which carried the filly to a hard-earned victory. On Saturday, Heathcote will be… Read More »
No trainer … or anybody involved in racing as a whole for that matter … is more respected than Helen Page. The way she presents herself … the way she conducts herself … the calm and kind attitude she brings with her presence … the humbleness that is always in… Read More »
Bella Nipotina and Ruthless Dame will attempt to give the Ciaron Maher a first win in the Newmarket Handicap at Flemington. Trainer Ciaron Maher is happy to exploit the handicap conditions of one of Australia’s toughest sprint races at Flemington on Saturday. Maher will saddle two mares in the Group 1… Read More »
With two nice fillies looking for a trip, Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman have been forced into pitting Mollynickers and Autumn Angel against one another at Flemington. The pair run in the Group 2 Kewney Stakes (1600m) on Saturday having started their autumn campaigns in different races last month. Mollynickers ran a first-up… Read More »
Stay Focused is considered the best chance to break a decade-long hoodoo when he contests Saturday’s VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes at Flemington. The Phillip Stokes-trained colt heads to the $300,000 Group 2 off a fifth placing in the Blue Diamond, once the prime lead-up to the Sires’, which until 2005 carried… Read More »
Adrian Bott isn’t sure if his two Randwick Guineas runners are sharp enough to upset the favourites, but he does believe both can make their mark this autumn. Bott and training partner Gai Waterhouse will start Les Vampires and Ganbare, both horses arriving at Saturday’s 1600 metre race via the Hobartville Stakes (1400m),… Read More »
In response to scorching temperatures forecasted for tomorrow’s Super Saturday at Flemington, Racing Victoria (RV) and the Victoria Racing Club (VRC) have opted to start the races early. With the mercury expected to hit 39 degrees, the eight-race event will kick off at 10.45 am and conclude by 2.30 pm…. Read More »
If Sam Clipperton has any nerves over the autumn return of Everest winner Think About It, he isn’t showing them. In fact, so sure is Clipperton of the horse’s capabilities that he is approaching the Everest winner’s return in the Canterbury Stakes (1300m) at Randwick on Saturday without a concrete game… Read More »
Stuart Kendrick has as opportunity to knock off the two highlight races of the QTIS Jewel program on Saturday with full brothers Defiant Spirit and Defiant Boom. Both by Queensland’s warrior sprinter Spirit Of Boom with the dam a well-performed two-year-old in her day, Listed Gimcrack Stakes winner Defiant Dame, each will… Read More »
In a race of hard luck stories, the Pinjarra Classic (1300m) was a bad watch for co-trainers Grant and Alana Williams and backers of Red Fifty Three two weeks back. Jockey Madi Derrick was lucky to stay aboard Red Fifty Three when the five-year-old copped a severe check in between rivals when… Read More »
Trainer Les Ross is no stranger to having multiple horses in a race and he certainly has the numbers in the AQUIS, QTIS Two-Year-Old Jewel at the Gold Coast on Saturday where he will saddle no less than seven runners in the sixteen strong field. “I’ve only got seven out… Read More »
