Last spring champion jockey Glen Boss declared Puissance De Lune the “2013 Melbourne Cup winner” and not surprisingly he leads a strong contingent of locally-trained imports in the early Cup market. The Darren Weir-trained Puissance De Lune has gone up at $8 with TAB fixed odds in its Melbourne Cup market [...]
Race 1 – SYDNEY CUP (3200 METRES) Of $500,000.1st $300,000, 2nd $100,000, 3rd $50,000, 4th $25,000, 5th $10,000, 6th $5,000, 7th $5,000, 8th $5,000, Starter Subsidy $200 GROUP 1 Handicap, Minimum Weight 52kg, Three-Years-Old and Upwards, Apprentices cannot claim.Field Limit: 16 + 4 EM Form Guide Luxbet Free BetSportsbet Free [...]
High profile stayers Green Moon and Sea Moon have been announced as equal topweights for the Sydney Cup with 59kg but neither will start in the 3200m race on April 27. Weights will need to be raised at least one kilogram to meet the requirement for a 58kg topweight with [...]
Melbourne and Caulfield Cup winner Dunaden is back in trainer Mikel Delzangles’ stable at Chantilly to prepare for what may be his final campaign. But it is likely it will be without his regular partner Craig Williams. Delzangles’ wife Ann said Dunaden had wintered well and would be aimed at [...]
Melbourne Cup-winning owner Lloyd Williams’s portfolio of imported horses will be boosted by the addition of one of England’s most promising young stayers. Williams confirmed he had purchased Sea Moon, a winner at Royal Ascot, via a text message to racing media. Sea Moon’s best win was in the Group [...]
A steady flow of money for the Sydney sprinter Sea Siren has forced bookmakers to continue to trim her price ahead of Sunday week’s Hong Kong International Sprint (1200m). Sea Siren opened at $3.80 with Centrebet which has been hit with a series of big bets since business opened on [...]
Cirrus Des Aigles looks increasingly likely to provide the most serious opposition for Frankel at Ascot after a consummate victory in the Prix Dollar at Longchamp. Corinne Barande-Barbe’s six-year-old is perhaps the most popular horse in France, as a humbly-bred gelding competing against – and usually beating – the famous [...]
Joshua Tree will aim to regain his Canadian International crown following a highly creditable performance at Longchamp on Sunday. The five-year-old was victorious at Woodbine when trained by Aidan O’Brien a couple of years ago and finished second to French raider Sarah Lynx 12 months later after joining Marco Botti. [...]
Connections of Sea Moon are quite optimistic about the future despite the four-year-old’s defeat in the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes. The Sir Michael Stoute-trained colt was beaten just over two lengths in fifth place behind Danedream in one of the best renewals of the midsummer middle-distance championship [...]
John Hammond has a special reason to be interested in the outcome of the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on Saturday. The English-born, Chantilly-based trainer saddled the great Montjeu to land the midsummer middle-distance championship in 2000. A champion racehorse, Montjeu also enjoyed great success as [...]
