Promising Mackay filly Doubtfilly could ensure a return to Brisbane for the winter carnival if successful again at Doomben on Saturday. Trainer Stu Kendrick has pencilled in the Group Two Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) at Eagle Farm in June for the daughter of Not A Single Doubt but she’ll need [...]
A noted wet tracker racing during summer and striking conditions to suit. It’s an unusual situation but one which Grafton trainer John Shelton isn’t complaining about as he saddles up Be Afraid on home soil on Saturday. The five-year-old mare, with Matthew Paget aboard, lines up in the Riverview Service [...]
The lure of bigger prizemoney prompted trainer Luke Griffith to chose a wet Warwick Farm over Canterbury for in-form country mare Sugera this weekend. The winner of her past three starts, Sugera was entered for a $27,000 race at Canterbury on Friday night as well as Saturday’s $70,000 Schweppes Handicap [...]
Trainer Barry Baldwin admits Havatryst faces a big task from his outside draw at Doomben on Saturday. Havatryst, who has drawn 17 in the Woolworths Handicap (1200m), won his first two starts this campaign in restricted class before failing in the Group Three George Moore Stakes (1200m) at Doomben and [...]
Autumn plans for The Big Steel are in grave doubt with the five-year-old suffering muscle soreness which has ruled him out of the Victoria Cup at Caulfield. Trainer Matt Laurie was hoping to have the grey peaking for the Mornington Cup (2000m) on February 15 and the Launceston Cup two [...]
David Hayes has a good opinion of three-year-old Rifleman and will test him in stakes company at Caulfield on Saturday when he will shoot for a hat-trick of wins. The colt, who has had only three starts, was fourth of five runners on debut in the Listed St Albans Stakes [...]
Alma’s Fury is an unlikely starter at Warwick Farm on Saturday with trainer Paul Murray indicating he will wait for the Apollo Stakes. Murray said the in-form Alma’s Fury would not run in Saturday’s Warwick Farm Handicap (1600m) if the track was slow or heavy. Warwick Farm was rated slow [...]
Top colt Foxwedge has arrived in Melbourne to prepare for his tilt at the Group One Lightning Stakes. The Sydney three-year-old has not raced since running benchmark colt Sepoy to a head in the Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington in October. “He arrived in Melbourne last night in preparation for [...]
Veteran jockey Neville Wilson has been back riding trackwork for sometime but he finally believes he is nearing a race day return. Wilson estimates he is two months away from making a comeback to race riding following a fall at Geelong in March last year. “The health is pretty good. [...]
Jockey Ben Melham will be looking to take a sit behind the leaders when noted speedster Bel Sprinter resumes at Caulfield. Melham said the Jason Warren-trained sprinter would be improved by the run in Saturday’s Listed United Arab Emirates Stakes (1000m) and that the challenge would be getting him to [...]
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