Dual stakes placegetter Imprimis gets her chance to break through for her first win after trainer Mick Cerchi opted to start her at Caulfield on Monday. The Flemington trainer had the daughter of Group One winner Magnus nominated for Saturday’s $70,000 Melbourne’s Greatest Ever Easter Egg Hunt Hcp (1100m) but [...]
Group One winner Triple Honour takes the next step on his comeback trail at Eagle Farm on Monday with new trainer Robert Heathcote confident he is poised to rediscover his best form. The 2008 Doncaster Handicap winner, Triple Honour was formerly trained by Chris Waller in Sydney and was temporarily [...]
Con Karakatsanis has already won two Stradbroke Handicaps with Black Piranha and the veteran campaigner will spearhead his assault on the Group One again this year. Black Piranha, who claimed back-to-back Stradbroke wins in 2009-10, has returned to Karakatsanis’ Rosehill stables after a brief stint with Anthony Freedman in Melbourne. [...]
Talented mare Ay Dee Bee continues her build up to the Tamworth Cup at Muswellbrook on Monday. The Luke Griffith-trained five-year-old, a Greg Ryan mount, tackles the Arrowfield Stud Hcp (1280m). On the comeback trail after undergoing an operation to correct a hairline joint fracture, the daughter of Catcher In [...]
It had been widely touted prior to Saturday as the best Sydney raceday in many a year, and only the most hardened punter would disagree following today’s Golden Slipper day at Rosehill.
A victory to Western Symbol put the icing on the cake for one of champion trainer Gai Waterhouse’s greatest days at the track on Saturday. Waterhouse had already won the $3.5 million Golden Slipper with Pierro and $400,000 Group One Queen Of The Turf Stakes with More Joyous before Western [...]
What the jockeys said after the $3.5 million Group One Golden Slipper at Rosehill. NASH RAWILLER (Pierro) 1st: Outstanding, wasn’t he? He made his own luck today. I was pretty confident a long way out. It’s as confident as what you would see me ride I reckon. COREY BROWN (Snitzerland) [...]
After making Sydney his home for the past five years, premier jockey Nash Rawiller finally got to savour victory in the city’s flagship race at Rosehill on Saturday. Rawiller was lured to Sydney by trainer Gai Waterhouse in 2007 and on Saturday the pair combined with outstanding colt Pierro to [...]
Sydney-based apprentice Chad Schofield blew most punters out of the Caulfield quadrella on outsider Red Typhoon, his first winner in Victoria. Schofield, 18, is the son of Hay List’s regular rider Glyn Schofield and he decided to experience riding in Melbourne while senior jockeys dominate the Sydney carnival. At Caulfield [...]
Queen of the turf Gai Waterhouse proved herself a visionary with her fourth triumph in the $3.5 million Golden Slipper, the world’s richest race for two-year-olds. “Gai said six months ago this horse was going to win the Golden Slipper,” winning jockey Nash Rawiller said after piloting the Waterhouse-trained Pierro [...]