Sir Dapper and Emancipation were great rivals on the track and more than 30 years after the pair’s exploits, their respective trainers find themselves with a common Everest bond. Les Bridge, the 81-year-old trainer of Sir Dapper, will saddle up Classique Legend who is owned by the Hong Kong-based Bon… Read More »
Bjorn Baker cannot fault the free-wheeling Samadoubt ahead of the gelding’s quest to win a third feature race at Randwick in as many months. Samadoubt led all the way to cause a boilover in the Group One Winx Stakes (1400m) in August and showed the performance was no fluke when… Read More »
Trainer Archie Alexander sees the Ethereal Stakes at Caulfield as the ideal VRC Oaks trial for lightly raced filly Gamay. Saturday’s Group Three Ethereal Stakes over 2000m for three-year-old fillies will be Gamay’s fifth race start and will go a long way to determining her upcoming program. Gamay’s first three… Read More »
Trainer Trent Busuttin’s outward demeanour on race day is that of someone who is calm and relaxed. But recently Busuttin has been a little on edge as the Caulfield Cup, run on Saturday with a winner’s cheque of $3 million, draws closer. Busuttin trains with partner Natalie Young and prepares… Read More »
The fate of Nature Strip’s Everest quest will be determined in the first few hundred meters of the race, according to his jockey Tim Clark. The horse brings an X-factor to Saturday’s $14 million The Everest with opinion divided whether his raw speed can be harnessed to run out a… Read More »
Victoria Police acted lawfully when it gave racing authorities evidence from a raid on Victorian trainer Jarrod McLean’s stables, a judge has ruled. McLean had argued Victoria Police did not having the right to give Racing Victoria information about items seized during the January 30 raid at Yangery, near Warrnambool…. Read More »
Racing NSW chief executive Peter V’Landys has labelled the cruel fate of some racehorses shown on a television program as “sickening” but says it is unfair to tarnish an entire industry for the actions of a few. A report on the ABC’s 7.30 program on Thursday said the number of… Read More »
Veteran Sydney gelding Testashadow makes another trip to Brisbane to run at Eagle Farm as his trainer Gary Portelli searches the east coast programs for suitable races. Testashadow looks well placed in a field of nine in Saturday’s Clayfield Jewellery Open Handicap (1600m). It is the second time in recent… Read More »
More must be done to ensure thoroughbred racehorses are tracked and accounted for after their careers, a peak body says. Thoroughbred Breeders Australia says those governing the industry must act along with participants to reinforce the post-racing programs which include rehoming retired horses. On the eve of the showcase Caulfield… Read More »
Gold Coast trainer Garry Newham has won the Wayne Wilson Medal for an outstanding training performance in Queensland racing. Newham trained Winning Ways to win the Queensland Oaks which was the only Group One victory for the season by a horse trained in the state. It was an emotional win… Read More »
The Kosciuszko will run as race five at 2.50pm (AEDT) at Randwick on Saturday. THE KOSCIUSZKO 1200m, $1,300,000, three-year-olds, set-weights plus penalties CONCEPT * Modelled in part on the $14 million Everest but for country-trained horses * Fourteen runners picked by winners who bought $5 tickets * Slot holders negotiate… Read More »
It has been seven extraordinary years since Michelle Payne last rode at Randwick and when she returns on Everest day, it will be in a unique role as trainer and jockey of Sydney Stakes contender Kaspersky. Payne reckons her last ride in Sydney was aboard Yosei when she finished third… Read More »
The Everest will run as race seven at 4.15pm (AEDT) at Randwick on Saturday. WHAT IS IT? * A $14 million The Everest over 1200m at weight-for-age offering a $6.05 million first-place prize purse, down to $400,000 for seventh to 12th * A dozen slots are sold at $600,000 a… Read More »
Danny O’Brien is happy to pit VRC Oaks favourite Miami Bound against the colts and geldings in the Group Three Caulfield Classic and the trainer is expecting the filly to relish racing over 2000m for the first time. Miami Bound is the only filly in Saturday’s $350,000 Caulfield Classic for… Read More »
Tim Clark hopes to make the perfect start to Everest day at Randwick when he rides favourite Postcode in the opening event on a bumper 10-race card. Clark, who partners Nature Strip in the $14 million feature, has nine rides on Saturday’s program and Postcode shapes as one of his… Read More »
Wolfe clinched a Caulfield Cup spot with victory in the Coongy Cup but the up-and-coming stayer still has work to do to make the Melbourne Cup field. The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Wolfe earned a ballot exemption into Saturday’s Caulfield Cup with his Coongy win on Wednesday and he… Read More »
It takes a bold trainer to try to beat Chris Waller in his own backyard but that is precisely what Archie Alexander is hoping to do with Gallic Chieftain in the St Leger Stakes at Randwick. The imported stayer almost got the job done last start when he narrowly went… Read More »
Trainer Ken Keys will ask jockey Dwayne Dunn to adopt different tactics aboard Presently when they reunite at Caulfield. Presently runs in Saturday’s Group Three Ethereal Stakes (2000m), a lead-up race to the VRC Oaks (2500m) at Flemington on November 7. Keys has had the Oaks in mind for Presently… Read More »
NSW Northern Rivers trainer John Shelton has a double shot at another career-defining moment in the $1.3 million Kosciuszko. After winning last year’s inaugural running of the 1200m Everest day support race for country-trained horses with $71 longshot Belflyer, Shelton is returning to Randwick on Saturday armed with two runners…. Read More »
An act of goodwill by jockey Tommy Berry has landed him the plum mount on favourite Happy Clapper in the Group Three Craven Plate at Randwick. Rival Hugh Bowman was due to partner Happy Clapper in a barrier trial last month but broke his finger in a trackwork mishap and… Read More »
