A horse which hasn’t won for more than two years still has enough substance to his form to be rated among trainer Chris Waller’s best chance in the $750,000 Metropolitan. Beaten Up has firmed to the third line of betting for the Group One staying race and Waller can understand… Read More »
The Caulfield Cup is shaping as the likely target for New Zealander Volkstok’n’barrell who has his next spring start in the Turnbull Stakes. The four-year-old will race on an eight-day back-up in Sunday’s Group One 2000m race at Flemington and co-trainer Chris Gibbs believes the gelding has improved again from… Read More »
After a short a break-up that worked out better for horse than jockey, Speak Fondly and Tommy Berry will be reunited at Randwick on Saturday to chase a Group One goal. Berry rode the filly in two pre-campaign barrier trials but his spring commitment to stablemate and Golden Slipper winner… Read More »
John Thompson is the latest trainer to express his frustration over a compressed weight scale for the Epsom Handicap that has left stable runner Hooked as an unlikely topweight in the $1 million race. Since the final Epsom field was declared on Tuesday, there have been calls for a review… Read More »
Fresh from a Group One Underwood Stakes win, jockey Vlad Duric is hoping to land another top-level success when he rides Flamberge in the Moir Stakes at Moonee Valley. Duric won last Saturday’s Underwood on Mourinho and also enjoyed Group One success on the Peter Moody-trained Flamberge in this year’s… Read More »
Chris Waller can see no reason why late bloomer Harlem Lady won’t go on with the job after breaking her maiden at Rosehill on Wednesday. A daughter of legendary sire Zabeel who died on the weekend, the four-year-old finished hard near the inside to take out the TAB More Than… Read More »
A capacity field featuring 11 Group One winners has been declared for the Turnbull Stakes at Flemington. The 2013 winner Happy Trails has topweight of 59kg in Sunday’s 2000m feature, run under set weights plus penalties conditions. The Paul Beshara-trained gelding has drawn barrier three in the full field of… Read More »
Trainer Peter Moody will face the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board in December over cobalt charges levelled against him. Moody has been charged after Lidari returned a cobalt level above the allowed threshold following his second in the Group One Turnbull Stakes last October. The RAD Board hearing has been… Read More »
Unbeaten filly Petits Filous headlines a field of 13 declared for the Group One Moir Stakes at Moonee Valley. The Ciaron Maher-trained Petits Filous is among a trio of three-year-olds in Friday night’s 1000m weight-for-age sprint, along with fellow filly Fontiton and Hawkes Racing-trained colt Headwater. Petits Filous has barrier… Read More »
Trainer David Vandyke is chasing his first Group One win in the Metropolitan, a race that has proved frustrating in recent years. The Vandyke-trained Lamasery, finished third in 2011 and fifth in 2012 while Prince Cheri was the unplaced favourite two years ago. Maurus has drawn a middle gate at… Read More »
A Frankel filly out of champion race mare Alexander Goldrun has fetched STG1.7 million ($A3.69 million) on the opening day of the Goffs sale. Michael Wallace, representing the China Horse Club, was the successful bidder. “She was very obvious. Frankel doesn’t need explaining to anyone and being out of a… Read More »
Treve’s jockey Thierry Jarnet has dismissed claims from Golden Horn’s owner Anthony Oppenheimer his star colt can easily beat the mare in her bid for a third Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. Speaking to At The Races, Oppenheimer was confident his Derby, Eclipse and Irish Champion Stakes winner Golden Horn… Read More »
Trainer John Sargent is convinced Gust Of Wind is on target for the Cups and the Australian Oaks winner will be out to show that in the Group One Turnbull Stakes. Gust Of Wind will work the Melbourne way of going in Sydney on Wednesday morning and then travel south… Read More »
Far from the glitz of million-dollar meetings and Emirati megastables, Mark Milton backs up from a 12-hour shift at a coal mine to train horses. Working on a rotating roster, the 48-year-old Gulgong electrician devotes every spare minute to training his stable of six. “There is no `Sunday is your… Read More »
Even though Buffering is now an eight-year-old his trainer insists he can still show his younger rivals a thing or two. Buffering returns for his Moir Stakes defence on Friday night in which two three-year-old fillies head the early market. Trainer Robert Heathcote says veteran Buffering is showing the right… Read More »
A bronze statue of legendary jockey Roy Higgins will be unveiled at Flemington racecourse where he won two Melbourne Cups. Higgins, nicknamed `The Professor’, died in March last year aged 75. His career in the saddle included a record-equalling 11 Melbourne jockeys’ premierships, 108 Group One wins and more than… Read More »
Jason Attard says a wide Epsom Handicap barrier for Sons Of John isn’t ideal – but it isn’t the end of the world either. Sons Of John will make his Group One debut in the Epsom, pitting his credentials against Chris Waller’s race favourites Winx and Silverball and the Kris… Read More »
Jockey Mark Zahra has been cleared of serious injury after being thrown from a horse and will be right to take important Group One rides this weekend. Zahra was taken to hospital for back X-rays after falling from a horse when returning to a stabling area at Caulfield on Tuesday… Read More »
Maurus’ first day at the races after a serious health scare couldn’t have turned out any better for trainer David Vandyke. Down and out as a spring prospect less than a month ago, Maurus will go into the $750,000 Metropolitan at Randwick having made a spectacular recovery from a severe… Read More »
Stablemates Flying Achilles and Land’s End will take different paths towards a clash in the Group One Spring Champion Stakes. Gerald Ryan entered both for the Listed Dulcify Quality (1600m) at Randwick but will instead run Flying Achilles over 1800m at Rosehill on Wednesday. Flying Achilles led all the way… Read More »
