The build-up trainer Mick Price planned for Dany The Fox has come together perfectly – all that remains is to deliver the final blow. Price constructed a long-range program aimed at building Dany The Fox’s rating to a level that would gain him entry into Victoria’s rich country cups circuit [...]
A trainer who has fired a warning shot through the Sydney training establishment this season showed his Victorian counterparts how it’s done when Twilight Royale took out the state’s richest two-year-old race of the autumn so far. Bjorn Baker has trained 27 winners from a limited number of runners in [...]
A single burst of pure brilliance at Caulfield on Tuesday morning has put to rest any concerns lingering over last year’s Blue Diamond Stakes winner Samaready. It also got a week of high expectation off to a hopeful start for Peter Orton who will be up early again on Friday [...]
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 [...]
On one hand, trainer Shane Fliedner would have appreciated an easier race than Saturday’s Aquanas Handicap at Moonee Valley for the city debut of his promising galloper Primitive Man. On the other, he is looking to the quality of his opposition to at least give him a guide to his [...]
Trainer Mick Kent added another member to his team of summer feature race candidates when You Think So outstayed a handy off-season field to win the Bitalli Handicap at Flemington. Kent immediately promoted You Think So to join Werribee Cup winner Unusual Suspect in his assault on the Bagot Handicap [...]
A change of rider, a change of gear and an encouraging trial have trainer Mick Price ready to get the promising colt Al Aneed back on track at Flemington on Saturday. An impressive winner in Listed company at Caulfield in October, Al Aneed has run a couple of indifferent races [...]
Half-brothers Esprit De Bullet and Almighty Bullet are poised to give trainer John Hyam a milestone two-state stakes double on Saturday. The Adelaide trainer is bullish about his chances of notching his first stakes success when in-form sprinter Esprit De Bullet tackles the Doveton Stakes at Caulfield. And should the [...]
Until recently, first crop sire Myboycharlie was an unknown quantity in Australia but two winners in as many weeks put Vinery’s imported stallion on the map. Charlie Boy was the first to make his mark with a Rosehill win on November 17 with Artistic Lass placed a week later and [...]
Caulfield trainer Mick Price was in two minds about running diminutive colt Resistant at Caulfield on Saturday but in the end his decision was the right one. At just his second run, following his fourth on debut at Sandown last month, Resistant is well on the way towards recouping his [...]
