Nash Rawiller is confident Romantic Touch’s first Group One win in the JJ Atkins at Eagle Farm on Saturday won’t be his last. Starting favourite, Romantic Touch ($2.35) led all the way to win the Atkins by a half length from Zoustar ($4) with Paximadia ($8) a short head away [...]
For the second year in a row, Peter Snowden has prepared a horse to win a Stradbroke Handicap day support race which he insists would have been competitive in the main event. Snowden decided not to accept for the Stradbroke with three-year-old gelding Academus because it already had Group One-winning [...]
An outside draw and aggressive tactics brought Your Song undone in the Doomben 10,000 but Peter Robl is confident the colt can redeem himself in Saturday’s Stradbroke Handicap. A brilliant winner of the BTC Cup with Robl aboard two starts ago, Your Song has drawn barrier 11 in Saturday’s Group [...]
Race 8 – 3:40PM AAMI STRADBROKE HANDICAP (1400 METRES) Of $1,360,000.1st $1,000,000, 2nd $200,000, 3rd $100,000, 4th $40,000, 5th $20,000 GROUP 1 Handicap, Minimum Weight 50.5kg, Apprentices cannot claim. Field Limit: 18 + 5 EM Luxbet Free BetSportsbet Free BetBookmaker Free Bet No Horse Trainer Jockey Weight 1 BUFFERING Robert [...]
Detours ended her racing career with a flourish by winning the Bright Shadow Handicap at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Trainer Peter Snowden made the surprise announcement after Detours ($4.60) defeated Sharnee Rose ($10) by a half length with Dystopia ($8) a head away third. “There’s every chance she’ll go to [...]
Hot Snitzel’s stop-start Brisbane campaign is back on track with the talented sprinter to put a Stradbroke Handicap berth on the line on Saturday. The multiple stakes winner was a late withdrawal from last week’s BTC Sprint after a mishap in his box. His failure in the Prime Minister’s Cup [...]
Darley jockey Kerrin McEvoy has declared his fitness for a complete book of Hawkesbury rides on Saturday. McEvoy was in doubt for the meeting after he injured his foot in a barrier mishap during the week. He didn’t ride at Warwick Farm on Wednesday and was absent from Gosford the [...]
Two weeks after finishing second to Black Caviar in her racetrack swan song, Epaulette will have to face off with another member of the champion’s family in Saturday’s All Aged Stakes at Randwick. Epaulette made late ground to finish three lengths astern of the great mare in the TJ Smith [...]
A week after It’s A Dundeel’s scintillating Derby win, another three-year-old star will step out at Randwick as the dominant favourite in a major race. On Saturday it will be Pierro, bidding to extend his unbeaten Sydney record in what is regarded as the toughest 1600m race in the country, [...]
James McDonald will miss the final two days of the Sydney autumn carnival after being suspended for careless riding in the Golden Slipper. Importantly, he will be free to continue his association with star colt and favourite It’s A Dundeel in the Australian Derby next weekend but risks relinquishing the [...]