This year’s Everest champion will have another million reasons to back up a fortnight later in the revamped Redzel Stakes. Racing NSW on Friday announced a bounty of up to $1.3 million in bonuses for Rosehill’s Redzel Stakes, formerly the Winners Stakes, on November 2. The bonuses are designed to… Read More »
Win, lose or draw Vegas Knight is heading to the paddock for a rest after he runs in the Caulfield Guineas. Trainer Colin Little has been surprised by the gelding’s resilience after being in work for more than half the year, without a spell, racing through winter and spring. Little… Read More »
In-form trainer Kelly Schweida admits he is walking a tightrope trying to get former top juvenile The Odyssey back to peak form. Schweida has had a good week with doubles at Eagle Farm and Doomben but would love The Odyssey to return to form in Saturday’s Clayfield College Three-Year-Old Handicap… Read More »
The nature of Shadow Hero’s Gloaming Stakes win sealed the deal for Joshua Parr as he grappled with the decision of which horse to ride in the Spring Champion Stakes. Parr is the regular partner of Shadow Hero and Champagne Stakes winner Castelvecchio but with the pair to clash in… Read More »
The in-form Xanthus can ensure he has an easy path to the $2 million Magic Millions Guineas by winning at Eagle Farm. Xanthus meets an above average Brisbane three-year-old field in Saturday’s Cutters Skips Handicap (1400m). Trainer Matt Dunn has always had high hopes for Xanthus who is by leading… Read More »
Famous is yet to live up to his name but if the Stan Fox Stakes record of trainers Peter and Paul Snowden is anything to go by, the horse might just make his mark. The Snowdens have won the Group Two feature twice with Shooting To Win in 2014 and… Read More »
Promising sprinter Cadogan will be ridden by a senior rider for the first time this campaign when he runs at Eagle Farm. Apprentice Jackson Murphy has ridden Cadogan in his four runs back from a spell but senior jockey Robbie Fradd has the mount in Saturday’s Juiced TV Open (1400m)…. Read More »
The Holy One has been scratched from the Caulfield Guineas giving the Anthony Freedman-trained Groundswell a start. Groundswell, the second emergency, is a brother to Group One winner Shoals and missed getting into the final 16 for Saturday’s 1600m-Group One Caulfield Guineas despite his third in the Prelude. Kerrin McEvoy… Read More »
More than a year after Iam Ekstraordinary returned an elevated cobalt reading in a pre-race urine sample, trainer Richard Laming has been charged by Racing Victoria stewards. Iam Ekstraordinary’s sample was taken nbefore he ran fifth in a maiden at Ballarat on May 23 last year. Racing Analytical Services Limited… Read More »
Winx has claimed another record, being named Australia’s Horse of the Year for an unprecedented fourth time. The mare was retired in April after winning the Queen Elizabeth Stakes, her 25th Group One victory and her 33rd successive win. She was also named the champion middle distance performer for the… Read More »
Group One-winning trainer Jarrod McLean has been suspended by Racing Victoria stewards until police charges including animal cruelty are finalised in court. McLean fronted RV stewards on Thursday after being charged a day earlier by the Victoria Police Sporting Integrity Intelligence Unit. He is facing multiple counts of engaging in… Read More »
Star mare Alizee will run for Godolphin in the $14 million Everest with champion jockey Hugh Bowman to ride. The triple Group One-winning mare got the nod for Godolphin’s slot in Saturday week’s rich sprint at Randwick ahead of her younger Golden Rose winning stablemate Bivouac. “We are in the… Read More »
If Princess Jenni wins the Group One Toorak Handicap, a crack at the $5 million Cox Plate could prove irresistible. The David Brideoake-trained Group One Australasian Oaks winner heads to Saturday’s Toorak (1600m) at Caulfield for the third start of her spring campaign on the back of a win in… Read More »
Trainer Gerald Ryan and Corumbene Stud’s George Altomonte have enjoyed success in feature races and jockey Josh Parr is keen to keep the party going. Parr rides two superbly bred colts for the trainer-owner combination at Randwick on Saturday, undefeated three-year-old Standout in the Group Two Roman Consul Stakes (1200m)… Read More »
CAULFIELD GUINEAS 1600m, $2 million, three-year-olds, set-weights HISTORY * First run in 1881 when won by Wheatear * Group One from 1979 * Run at Flemington 1940-43 NOTABLE WINNERS * Sweet Nell (1903), Heroic (1924), Ajax (1937), Tulloch (1957), Vain (1969), Sobar (1972), Luskin Star (1977), Manikato (1978), Soverign Red… Read More »
THE SPRING CHAMPION STAKES: 2000m, $1 million, set-weight, three-year-olds HISTORY * First run in 1971 and won by Gay Icarus * Before 1978 it was run in autumn as the Australasian Champion Stakes * Savabeel won the Spring Champion then the Cox Plate but was subsequently beaten in the Derby… Read More »
Avilius returns to Melbourne racing as a three-time Group One winner and is set to put his Cox Plate credentials on show against a field of international and local challengers in the Group One Caulfield Stakes. The James Cummings-trained Godolphin-owned import is unbeaten at Caulfield having won the Group Three… Read More »
Hold the oats and grains, when it comes to diet, six-year-old mare Nettoyer is more a pizza and burgers kind of girl. And yes, she would like a beer with that too. In a sport where feed is an integral ingredient in racehorse performance, Nettoyer is unique. “She likes beer,… Read More »
Trainer Jarrod McLean has been questioned behind closed doors at a stewards inquiry called after he was charged by police with several charges including animal cruelty. McLean’s legal representative Patrick Wheelahan successfully submitted the hearing should be closed to media. Three inquiries involving McLean, registered stablehand Tyson Kermond and licensed… Read More »
The only three-year-old filly still in Cox Plate contention is the favourite to claim her first Group One win in the Thousand Guineas. Godolphin-owned Flit is the $2.30 favourite for Saturday’s Thousand Guineas at Caulfield which trainer James Cummings says is the focus. Flit was earlier this week paid up… Read More »
