Metropolitan Handicap winner Montefilia will ramp up her carnival preparations with an exhibition gallop between races at Rosehill. The mare is scheduled to resume in the Group 1 Chipping Norton Stakes (1600m) at Randwick on February 26 and trainer David Payne is keen for her to have a day out to… Read More »
Goldfront’s Sue Olive is optimistic Snickerdoodledandy can pocket another win when she returns to WA racing on the weekend. Snickerdoodledandy is back on her old stomping ground once again and lines up in Sunday’s Listed Pinjarra Classic (1300m). Sue Olive trusts her decision to extend Snickerdoodledandy’s racing career before she’s retired to… Read More »
The Hobartville Stakes will be a pivotal race for Tulloch Lodge pair Converge and Silent Impact, albeit for slightly different reasons. Co-trainer Adrian Bott is keen to see a bold showing from Converge to signal whether he should stick to his age group this autumn or take on the older horses… Read More »
The Silver Slipper will be a pivotal race in terms of autumn plans for Shalatin, with trainer Joe Pride still pondering which leg of the two-year-old triple crown will be the best fit. The rangey colt has shown enormous potential in his two appearances and returns to Rosehill on Saturday for his… Read More »
The Caulfield racetrack will close for six months as the MRC begins to build a second track. The Melbourne Racing Club has announced its intention of racing moving for six months from Caulfield to Sandown following the 2022 Spring Racing Carnival. Plans are for the course proper to undergo renovation… Read More »
Former Singapore galloper The Inferno will strike new ground at Flemington when he races on the straight track for the first time. Trainer Cliff Brown said he would have liked to have taken The Inferno to Flemington for a look at the straight course ahead of the Group 1 Lightning Stakes (1000m)… Read More »
Zac Purton is looking to up the ante in his push for a fifth jockeys’ championship tomorrow night (Wednesday, 16 February) at Happy Valley, taking yet another imposing book of rides as he hopes to build on his unmatched 35 wins at the city circuit this term. Sitting eight wins… Read More »
Nine races will be run and won at Happy Valley this Wednesday night, with good depth across the meeting. Race One: 12 Raging Blaze Race Two: 4 Exceptional Nice Race Three: 3 Wind Speeder Race Four: 1 The Runner Race Five: 3 Circuit Booming Race Six: 1 Loyal Baby Race… Read More »
While he will be without his legion of adoring fans in the stands at Sha Tin, Golden Sixty ‘The Pride of Hong Kong’ is primed to bounce back from a rare defeat last month in Sunday’s (20 February) HK$12 million G1 Citi Hong Kong Gold Cup (2000m). And, as Hong… Read More »
Trainer Rhys Radford gives Playing God gelding, Son Of Bacchus, a big hope of making an impact in the Listed Pinjarra Classic (1300m). The six-year-old takes the first step in what Rhys Radford believes will be the start of a lucrative summer and autumn campaign on Sunday. Radford’s backing of Son… Read More »
It was a case of ‘welcome to New South Wales racing’ for gun rider Willie Pike who saw more action than he probably wanted to in his first ride since relocating from Western Australia. Pike was riding the Peter and Paul Snowden trained Choix De La Mer in the third… Read More »
He’s been out of action for almost six months after suffering an ugly fall in the Silver Shadow Stakes last August, but jockey Brenton Avdulla will make a quiet return to race riding at Rosehill Gardens this Saturday. Avdulla copped an undisplaced fracture of his C7 vertebra in the base of… Read More »
When Greg Eurell learned he was taking over training of Over Boost, he wouldn’t have thought he’d be a leading contender for a city race at his stable debut, as he will be at Sandown on Wednesday. The Toronado gelding came to Eurell after six starts in Hong Kong, where… Read More »
Peter Gelagotis and the connections of Miss Roseiano are expected to pay a late entry fee to run in Melbourne’s premier two-year-old race at Caulfield. After a debut win in the filly’s division of the Blue Diamond Preview before running second in the Blue Diamond Prelude last Saturday, the $55,000 late entry for… Read More »
Joe Pride says he cannot wait for the Lightning Stakes at Flemington where he will see Eduardo again pitted against Nature Strip. It will be Eduardo’s first trip back to Melbourne since Pride took over the training of the sprinter in 2020 after the rising nine-year-old started out with Cranbourne trainer Sarah Zschoke…. Read More »
A new era in racing takes place today at Wyong and it may be a winning one at that. Champion rider from West Australia, Willie Pike, takes his first mounts since arriving in NSW where he hopes to establish himself as the best rider in the land. And those rides… Read More »
Baylee Nothdurft continues to grapple with serious weight problems which have already threatened to severely restrict, or even end, his race-riding career on more than one occasion. Nothdurft famously landed the Brisbane Jockey’s Premiership as an apprentice in the 2019/20 season, becoming the first apprentice to do so since Michael… Read More »
Godolphin guns spearhead Rosehill nominees as the charge toward the Autumn carnival continues with the running of Saturday’s Group 2 Hobartville Stakes (1400m). In what promises to be an exciting spectacle and prelude to Autumn racing, Group 1 talent once again fills the nominations at Saturday’s Rosehill meeting. The Group… Read More »
He currently sits in second on the Sydney trainer’s premiership with 34 winners and Warwick Farm conditioner Bjorn Baker will be looking to add to the win column at Rosehill Gardens this Saturday. Baker is four winners ahead of Godolphin trainer James Cummings, with Peter and Paul Snowden a further… Read More »
Lark Hill trainer Stephen Miller is very much liking the way his talented juvenile Saintorio is going about his business. The Oratorio gelding banked another win on Saturday to stamp his claims for rich two-year-old races that loom in the next couple of months. Saintorio let down strongly after jockey… Read More »
