The world’s fastest horse got faster at Flemington on Saturday as Black Caviar produced one of the most spectacular performances of her celebrated career. In her first run in eight months, and her first since her career was threatened by injury, the champion mare maintained her unbeaten record with her [...]
The race to get closest to Black Caviar will provide an intriguing sidebar to Saturday’s Group One Lightning Stakes. The champion mare has already won the Flemington sprint twice and getting the job done a third time appears a mere formality. Seven horses will chase her down the famous straight [...]
Trainer Dan O’Sullivan has been handed a novel dilemma with the Mornington Cup win of Tuscan Fire. O’Sullivan must decide whether to set the horse for the big winter hurdle races or the Caulfield Cup – and it isn’t out of the question he’ll have a crack at both. As [...]
Champion jockey Glen Boss took his talents to Tasmania on Sunday to win his first Hobart Cup on Hurdy Gurdy Man and help improve Darren Weir’s impressive record in the race. The fast-finishing victory of Hurdy Gurdy Man repelled the local challenge of star Tasmanian gallopers The Cleaner and Geegees [...]
Patrick Payne has not only been training Fieldmaster for Sunday’s Hobart Cup, he has also been doing his best to prepare the horse’s jockey – his sister Michelle. Group One-winning rider Michelle Payne made her latest riding comeback on Fieldmaster last month and has continually been improving her fitness ahead [...]
Glen Boss isn’t unhappy to have linked up with Victoria Derby winner Fiveandahalfstar at Caulfield on Saturday, if only to clarify his thoughts on the form of last spring’s staying three-year-olds. Boss rode Hvasstan into fourth place behind Fiveandahalfstar in the Derby and although he has a good opinion of [...]
Stephen Baster makes his return to Australian racing on Sunday when he rides the Gai Waterhouse-trained Power Broker in the Hobart Cup. The meeting featuring the $225,000 Cup will be the jockey’s first appearance since having his riding licence in Singapore withdrawn without explanation by the Singapore Turf Club last [...]
Eight juveniles paid up for the $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes are set to clash in Saturday’s Listed Chairman’s Stakes at Caulfield. The Melbourne Racing Club received 49 entries for the February 23 feature when third declarations were taken this week. David Hayes, a five-time Blue Diamond-winning trainer, has the [...]
When he gets on a roll Peter Gelagotis can sound as much like a politician as a horse trainer. The difference is, his enthusiasm is thoroughly genuine. And when he talks about the star of his stable, Hvasstan, that enthusiasm is matched by respect, concern and admiration for a horse [...]
Three-year-old Shamexpress has warmed up for his Group One autumn carnival assignments with an easy first-up win at Moonee Valley on Friday night. Sent out the $2.50 favourite in the Chandler Macleod Premier Handicap (1000m), Shamexpress never looked in danger, sitting just behind the lead before ambling up to the [...]
