One of the best race carnivals anywhere in the world will kick off on Saturday- The Randwick Autumn Carnival. And what a meeting it is! Three Group One’s, Two Group Two’s and Four Group Three’s will ensure first class thoroughbred action. But the highlight of the day is the $1.5 [...]
Dual Cox Plate winner So You Think will stand at Coolmore Stud in the Australian spring. Coolmore secured a controlling interest in the horse after his second Cox Plate victory in 2010 and he was transferred from Bart Cummings to Aidan O’Brien in Ireland. His European wins include the Tattersalls [...]
Danny O’Brien has much to look forward to as the trainer of Black Caviar’s half-sister but in the meantime he will concentrate on chasing a breakthrough stakes success with a relation to another champion. So You Think’s half-brother Now You Know will line up in the Group Three Carbine Club [...]
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.
The newest member of the Helsinge dynasty made her first public appearance on Thursday ahead of her much-anticipated auction at the Easter Yearling Sale in Sydney. The Redoute’s Choice half-sister to champion mare Black Caviar, three-time winner Moshe and emerging star All Too Hard, was paraded at the William Inglis [...]
So You Think’s little brother has been withdrawn from Sydney’s Easter Yearling Sale after being diagnosed with suspected wobbler syndrome. The condition is usually a malformation or compression of the spinal cord which affects a horse’s gait and co-ordination. Mark Webster, chief executive of auctioneers William Inglis, made the announcement [...]
Red Colossus will defend his Victoria Handicap crown at Caulfield despite a disappointing start to his autumn campaign. Trainer Greg Eurell confirmed the five-year-old was a definite runner in Saturday’s Group Three event and has warned punters not to write him off. “I wouldn’t be surprised if he kicked back,” [...]
Monterosso led home a Godolphin one-two in the Dubai World Cup at Meydan on Saturday when he swept past his stablemate, Capponi, to win the world’s richest race. The five-year-old, ridden by Mickael Barzalona, advanced from a prominent position to win Saturday’s US10 million ($A9.6 million) race in which he [...]
Monterosso won the world’s richest horse race, the Dubai World Cup, on Saturday with former Australian champion and hot favourite So You Think a disappointing fourth. The result also gave victory to the brainchild behind the race, Monterosso’s owner Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum’s Godolphin Operation. The winner – third last year [...]
FP Margin Gate OR Horse Wgt(Kgs) Equipment Trainer Jockey 1st 8 121 Monterosso (GB) 57.0 TT M Al Zarooni Mickael Barzalona 2rd 3 11 122 Capponi (IRE) 57.0 M Al Zarooni Ahmad Ajtebi 3rd 0.5 6 122 Planteur (IRE) 57.0 M Botti Ryan Moore 4th 0.5 4 126 So You [...]