Sydney colt Your Song will have to overcome a wide draw if he is to add another Group One win to his record in the Doomben 10,000 on Saturday. Your Song, a brilliant first-up winner of the Group One BTC Cup on a rain-affected track, has drawn the deepest barrier [...]
Outstand mare Ortensia, who has Group One wins in three countries, has been retired after finishing unplaced in the race named in her honour at Scone on Saturday. Trainer Paul Messara told stewards the mare had raced for the last time after she laboured into ninth place, four lengths from [...]
Arctic Flight confirmed a valuable future well beyond the racetrack as she added to a stellar day for her trainer and jockey in the $200,000 Dark Jewel Classic at Scone on Saturday. A close relation to Black Caviar and recently retired colt All Too Hard, Arctic Flight posted her first [...]
Anthony Cummings trains the Stradbroke Handicap favourite and after Fontelina’s win at Scone on Saturday, he could also be training one of the main dangers to top colt Your Song. Cummings confirmed Fontelina would have his next start in the Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) at Eagle Farm on June 8 after [...]
The toll of a heavy workload during her two-year-old season has done nothing to diminish the talent of Diamond Earth, winner of the Denise’s Joy Stakes at Scone on Saturday. Diamond Earth raced nine times during her debut term and after an early-season hiccup in 2012-2013, she is on course [...]
The Group One BTC Cup winner Your Song will be retired from racing after he runs in next month’s Stradbroke Handicap. A clear-cut winner of the weight-for-age sprint in the wet at Eagle Farm on Saturday, Your Song will join Widden Stud’s stallion roster in the NSW Hunter Valley. Your [...]
Sydney three-year-old Your Song gave his older rivals a true galloping lesson with a commanding Group One BTC Cup win at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Having his first start since mixing it with the best of his age during the Sydney spring carnival, Your Song cleared away on a rain-affected [...]
Imported stayer Less Is More is on the Brisbane Cup trail after he scored his first Australian win at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Ridden by Peter Robl and starting favourite, Less Is More ($4.60) won the Channel Seven Handicap (1600m) by a neck from Black Cash ($6.50) with Vacallo ($7) [...]
Clarry Conners’ hopes of a fifth Golden Slipper rest squarely on the performance of Assail in Saturday’s Magic Night Stakes at Rosehill. The trainer has entrusted Craig Williams to get the best out of the filly who has been battling a well documented hoof problem which surfaced on the morning [...]
Trainer Anthony Cummings hasn’t given up on blue blood filly Scandiva making an unlikely run towards the Golden Slipper. Scandiva, with links to Black Caviar and All Too Hard, became the latest winner from Australian breeding’s hottest family, with a decisive victory in the Emerald Hills Estate Plate (1100m) at [...]
