Race 2 – T J SMITH STAKES (1200 METRES) Of $1,000,000.1st $600,000, 2nd $200,000, 3rd $100,000, 4th $50,000, 5th $20,000, 6th $10,000, 7th $10,000, 8th $10,000, Starter Subsidy $200 GROUP 1 Standard Weight for Age, Apprentices cannot claim.Field Limit: 18 + 4 EM NOMINATIONS EXTENDED TO: 09/04/2013 11:00:00 AM Luxbet Free [...]
Entries are expected to be strong for the TJ Smith but just how many line up if Black Caviar runs is the question. Sydney’s weather will determine if the champion sprinter comes to Randwick on Saturday with trainer Peter Moody adamant she will not run on a heavy track which [...]
City Of Song is slated to have her final start for John Moloney at Moonee Valley on Saturday, but the trainer is hoping another win might change the owner’s mind. City Of Song is entered for the Inglis Easter Broodmare Sale in Sydney later this month. “I’m hoping she does [...]
Star colt All Too Hard has ramped up preparations for a late Sydney autumn carnival appearance, winning a jump-out at Flemington on Friday. Co-trainer Wayne Hawkes said All Too Hard did all he was asked to do in winning the 800m jump-out as he prepares for the Group One All [...]
Embattled businessman Nathan Tinkler is reported to be selling his racing and breeding operation, Patinack Farm. Tinkler established Patinack Farm in 2007, investing millions of dollars buying yearlings, stallions and brood mares for his new thoroughbred venture at Sandy Hollow in the NSW Hunter Valley. One of his biggest assets, [...]
As he awaits Black Caviar’s triumphant return to Sydney in two weeks, trainer Peter Moody is looking for a turnaround in the form of some of his more humble stable members at Rosehill on Saturday. And there could hardly be appropriate horse to lead the stable’s fight back than Brilliant [...]
The thoroughbred nursery which includes Black Caviar’s sire on its stallion roster is up for sale. Expressions of interest have been called for in Eliza Park Stud, a breeding concern encompassing six properties in two states with standing rights in 14 stallions. Eliza Park’s stallion roster is headlined by the [...]
Eighteen sprinters, including four emergency runners, have been paid up for the Group One Galaxy at Rosehill on Saturday. The capacity field includes the 59.5kg topweight Hay List who has drawn barrier 14. Hay List will be returning to Group One company after his first-up fourth placing in the Challenge [...]
The end of the road has been reached, some would say mercifully, for the one-time champion racehorse of Hong Kong, Good Ba Ba. The 11-year-old who arrived in Australia via Macau after his colourful and idiosyncratic owner John Yuen Se-kit decided to end the horse’s first retirement after 18 months [...]
Getting Black Caviar to race once in England amounted to the biggest coup in world racing last year. A return appearance would be a reward for the perseverance of Royal Ascot’s international thoroughbred scout, Nick Smith. Talk of another Royal Ascot campaign for Black Caviar emerged after she made it [...]
