Just 40 minutes after they combined to claim the Epsom Handicap with Fat Al, trainer Gai Waterhouse and jockey Tommy Berry made it a Group One double with import Glencadam Gold in the Metropolitan. Just like she did in the autumn, Waterhouse dominated the major day of the Sydney spring [...]
It was going to take more than a badly-bruised ankle to keep champion jockey Jim Cassidy out of the reckoning for another Group One Epsom Handicap win at Randwick on Saturday. Cassidy twisted his left ankle when he struck it coming out of the barriers in a race at Canterbury [...]
Exciting colt Proisir is a long odds-on favourite to maintain his unbeaten run in Saturday’s Group One Spring Champion Stakes at Randwick. But David Payne, trainer of rival runners Honorius and Laser Flash, isn’t conceding to the Gai Waterhouse-prepared colt just yet. “He’s not bred to stay so it will [...]
The Group One $400,000 Flight Stakes (1600m) to be run at Randwick on Saturday.- * First run in 1947 when won by Nizam’s Ring. * For three-year-old fillies and named after the champion mare Flight whose major wins included the Cox Plate (twice), Mackinnon Stakes, Champagne Stakes, Adrian Knox Stakes [...]
Nash Rawiller’s first race ride on Urban Groove could result in a Group One pay day if his opinion of the unbeaten filly is correct. The three-year-old burst onto the scene last month with a five length demolition win at Kembla Grange in quick time. She backed it up with [...]
A horse that got within a head of beating outstanding colt Pierro last year will chase his first city victory at Canterbury on Wednesday. The Paul Perry-trained three-year-old Hidden Warrior will line up in the Hyland Race Colours Handicap (1100m) after breaking through for a maiden win at his home [...]
Sydney’s super colt Pierro confirmed his standing as the best of his age in Australia with a consummate victory in the Group Two Stutt Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley. And the ease and brilliance of his win suggested he would be back in a month to prove himself the best [...]
Nash Rawiller can sense another big season coming up for Gai Waterhouse’s latest team of two-year-olds after the jockey and trainer were to the fore at Monday’s official trial session. Waterhouse and Rawiller combined to win four of the 11 heats at Warwick Farm while impeccably-bred youngsters Most Joyful and [...]
Unbeaten colt Pierro has grabbed most of the headlines ahead of racing at Moonee Valley on Friday night, but the filly who finished second to him in the Golden Slipper is a star in her own right. Snitzerland will have a familiarisation trip to the Valley on Monday morning ahead [...]
Gai Waterhouse and Nash Rawiller held a lengthy post-race Newcastle Cup chat in the parade ring after Glencadam Gold won Wednesday’s feature to decide his immediate future. Waterhouse emerged to reveal the imported stayer, unbeaten in three Australian starts, would run in the Metropolitan Handicap at Randwick on October 6 [...]
