An unkind barrier has forced trainer Ron Quinton to change late autumn plans for Crafty Irna with the accomplished staying mare set to run in the Listed Lord Mayors Cup at Rosehill. Crafty Irna drew off the track in the Wagga Wagga Gold Cup last week and Quinton had no [...]
On paper at least, Tony McEvoy will hold a home ground advantage in Saturday’s Rowley Mile at Hawkesbury. Import Mouro will be among McEvoy’s first runners out of his new training complex at the track following the announcement this week the South Australian-based horseman had bought Bylong Park. The property, [...]
Tony McEvoy’s decision to bring two-year-old Tikitour to Melbourne for Thursday’s Anzac Day Stakes is as much about the future as anything else. The last-start Gawler winner could have been kept in South Australia for last Saturday’s Group Three Sires’ Produce Stakes, won by stablemate The Voice, but McEvoy decided [...]
It probably doesn’t count as family support, but Black Caviar will have a couple of relatives on track at Randwick on Saturday. The great mare will have one of her cousins and an aunty competing in separate races on the Derby day card. Scandiva, a daughter of Black Caviar’s granddam [...]
Tony McEvoy is seriously considering establishing a permanent base in Sydney and Sysmo’s midweek win at Canterbury has only fuelled his enthusiasm. The South Australian trainer continued his excellent local record when the former French galloper claimed Wednesday’s Facebook.com/sydneycarnival Handicap (1580m). McEvoy has also enjoyed recent Sydney success with the [...]
Two-year-old Iconic has close family ties to champion Black Caviar and has played a starring role himself at Bendigo in taking out the $250,000 Vobis Gold Rush. The well-bred Iconic ($5.50) fended off his rivals in a thrilling finish to the 1000m race at Bendigo’s stand-alone Saturday meeting, holding on [...]
Family ties to the great Black Caviar will ensure Iconic is the focus of extra attention in Saturday’s feature two-year-old race at Bendigo. Iconic’s trainer Tony McEvoy insists the last-start winner shouldn’t be spoken of in the same breath as the unbeaten superstar but he is really pleased with the [...]
John Sadler has no doubts Ms Funovits will be a better horse next season but the trainer has a simple reason for giving the two-year-old her chance at another win in Saturday’s VOBIS Gold Rush. “It’s not very often you get to go to a place like Bendigo and race [...]
Classy imported stayer Le Roi has been given a solid work-out between races at Canterbury ahead of his autumn carnival return. Adelaide trainer Tony McEvoy made a quick visit to Sydney on Wednesday to oversee the four-year-old’s gallop. With Glyn Schofield aboard, the Summer Cup winner worked with stablemate Pelicano [...]
Jockey Vinny Colgan bid his homeland farewell in style with a record-breaking fifth New Zealand Derby aboard favourite Habibi. Colgan guided Habibi from a potentially tricky position four back on the rails to beat fellow filly Fix, with the front-running Castlzeberg sticking on well for third. It is his fifth [...]
