The outstanding success of three-year-olds in Group One races this season will be underscored if Hippopus wins Saturday’s Doomben Cup. The Gai Waterhouse-trained colt is striving to become the eighth individual three-year-old this season to win an open age Group One event. At Eagle Farm last Saturday, Your Song became [...]
Another import, another winner. And if Caulfield winner Midsummer Sun continues in the way trainer Sam Kavanagh anticipates, he will be around in the spring to mix it with the best. Midsummer Sun, who was formerly trained by Sir Henry Cecil in England, continued the amazing run of success for [...]
Luck deserted Vibrant Rouge at Caulfield last start but trainer Glenn Thornton is confident the mare can make up for that disappointment with victory at the same track on Saturday. Vibrant Rouge was a luckless second two weeks ago, caught behind a wall of horses early in the straight before [...]
It is the racing tag that trainers would rather their horses didn’t have. And it is one being challenged by two of the best sprinters in the country. Buffering and Rain Affair both have undeniable claims to being the best horse-in-training without a Group One win to their name. Between [...]
One of Queensland racing’s best-known combinations, Sizzling and Chris Munce, will be reunited in the Gold Coast Guineas on Saturday. Munce was forced to relinquish the ride on Sizzling in the Magic Millions Guineas at the Gold Coast in January while he was undergoing treatment for throat cancer. After spending [...]
Star jockey Craig Williams signed off from Melbourne racing for the season in style with four consecutive winners on Anzac Day, highlighted by his VRC St Leger triumph on Hippopus. The only hiccup to his afternoon came in the stewards room when he was suspended for seven meetings for careless [...]
Star jockey Craig Williams is heading back abroad for another stint in Japan. Williams will chase Group One success at Randwick on the final day of Sydney’s autumn carnival on Saturday before leaving for Japan on Monday to ride for two months. It will be the jockey’s fourth stint in [...]
A horse bought for speed but who turned out to be an above-average stayer could save jockey Craig Williams’s Sydney autumn carnival. By Williams’s lofty standards, it’s been a lean carnival. One of Australia’s most sought-after riders, Williams’ carnival has fallen away after starting on a promising note with Criterion’s [...]
Less than an hour after Royal Descent annihilated the Oaks field, trainer Chris Waller claimed his third Doncaster Mile with Sacred Falls on a day he almost scratched most of his runners. The heavy track concerned Waller and he was fearful Sacred Falls would not handle the ground, but he [...]
Pierro’s bid to keep his unbeaten record in Sydney intact has gained a further boost with barrier four in Saturday’s Doncaster Mile. The three-year-old is the dominant favourite for the prestigious race over what is regarded as the toughest 1600m course in the country but his owner Greg Kolivos is [...]