Refuse To Bend, a half-brother to the Melbourne Cup winner Media Puzzle, has died from a heart attack. The 2000 Guineas winner in 2003, Refuse To Bend was once a member of Darley Stud’s high-profile team of stallions to shuttle to Australia. Aged 12, Refuse To Bend was about to [...]
Trainer Steve O’Dea hopes stud failure Bianca Jewel can rediscover her early promise when the four-year-old makes her comeback at Eagle Farm. Bianca Jewel, who lines up in Saturday’s Lyndhurst Stud Handicap (1200m), was retired to stud following last year’s Brisbane winter carnival but failed to get into foal when [...]
Star colt Helmet was the star of the show when he trialled brilliantly under lights at Cranbourne on Tuesday night, watched by a crowd befitting a race meeting. Ridden by race jockey Kerrin McEvoy and watched by trainer Peter Snowden on course, the Australian Guineas favourite jumped well and travelled [...]
Top jockey Kerrin McEvoy returns from suspension later this week and will be out to boost Darley’s Blue Diamond Stakes assault in the two Preludes at Caulfield on Saturday. McEvoy has been suspended since after the Australia Day meeting at Caulfield and will be back in the saddle at Moonee [...]
Dubai-bound Helmet will ramp up preparations for his Melbourne and international assignments with a jumpout at Flemington on Friday.
After a clean sweep of last season’s Group One juvenile events the Darley team begins its assault on this year’s Blue Diamond series on Australia Day.