Last years Doomben Cup winner will be returning to the track after his eighth placed finish in the Underwood Stakes last year. Opened at $9 for the race before drifting to his current quote of $12 and is likely to start longer on the day with the 1400m trip looking [...]
First Command will break through the $1 million prize money barrier and earn another shot at the Oakleigh Plate if successful at Caulfield on Saturday. The winner’s cheque for the Listed WJ Adams Stakes (1000m) is $72,000. If First Command claims it, it will bump his total purse over the [...]
Anthony Freedman’s hopes of a second Karaka Million victory have been dashed with Minaj scratched from Sunday’s feature at Ellerslie in Auckland. Freedman announced on Twitter that Minaj had a temperature on Wednesday morning. “Unfortunately Minaj has spiked a temperature and is out of Karaka Million very disappointing for all [...]
Anthony Freedman celebrated his return to Flemington with a win at his new home track that might have been better than he thought. Freedman relocated this week from the Markdel training complex he and his brothers set up at Rye, south of Melbourne, to the track where they began training [...]
Trainer Anthony Freedman is considering a return assault on New Zealand’s richest race with the promising two-year-old Minaj. Freedman got a good idea of what it takes to win the $NZ1 million Karaka Million when he claimed it as his first attempt with Ockham’s Razor last year. And he believes [...]
Jim Mason led in his first city winner in six months at Caulfield on Saturday, at the same time achieving another rare, if dubious, distinction. He was the only winning trainer present at the track to see his horse cross the line. Mason’s handy performer Snow Cover took the final [...]
The possibility of adding a jockeys’ premiership to one of the most impressive records in Australian racing is still a fair way from reality for Glen Boss. But an early double at Caulfield on Saturday at least had him pondering the possibility. “It’s nice to be getting the sort of [...]
A nine-win lead in the Melbourne jockeys’ championship, a book of seven good rides at Caulfield on Saturday and an uncanny knack for riding a wave of confidence has Glen Boss in a frame of mind where anything can happen. Surprisingly for a jockey who has won most of Australia’s [...]
Part three of our 2012 racing year in review starts with the South Australian Derby (2500m). The Victorians dominated betting and they dominated the finish, providing the first three. The favourite was Zabeelionaire, for trainer Leon Corstens and Damien Oliver. For several moments, it looked as if he wasn’t going [...]
One of Australia’s most successful racing stables celebrated its repatriation with a winner and a promise of many more to come at Caulfield on Saturday. Anthony Freedman announced this week he would relocate his family’s racing operation to Flemington where it began its Melbourne existence 30 years ago. And at [...]