So You Think has been officially retired to stud and will return to Australia for the southern hemisphere breeding season. The 10-time Group One winner was found to have pulled a muscle in his hind quarter forcing him out of this weekend’s Eclipse Stakes which was to be his last… Read More »
Delays in completing routine maintenance have forced Friday’s Geelong Synthetic track meeting to be transferred to Pakenham. Stewards inspected the track on Thursday and deemed that it wasn’t fit to stage the meeting, forcing the switch of venues. “After inspecting the surface this afternoon our stewards are not satisfied that… Read More »
Jamie Mott had an afternoon to remember at Bendigo on Thursday riding four winners on the 10-race card. It was the fourth time in his career he has managed a quartet of victories and the second time in the past month. He also booted home a winning quartet at Swan… Read More »
A slow track for Flemington has given trainer Aaron Purcell reason for optimism as he chases feature wins at two venues on Saturday. Streaky Fella will take aim in the $100,000 Banjo Paterson Final (2600m) at Flemington while Purcell has import Dhaafer engaged in the $100,000 Kevin Lafferty Hurdle (3600m)… Read More »
A wide barrier is shaping as the major hurdle to Future Solution capping a momentous week for former amateur picnic rider-turned-trainer Kane Harris. Harris and partner Charmaine Barnes welcomed a baby boy, Lincoln, on Wednesday and on Saturday Future Solution will be out to deliver him his first stakes win… Read More »
The chances of a breakthrough feature win for trainer Bryan Dais received a boost only hours after he booked his rider for White City in Saturday’s Group Three Queen’s Cup. Dais, who prepares a small Brisbane team and will saddle up his first stakes runner, booked apprentice Rosie Myers on… Read More »
The weather will determine which path trainer Kris Lees takes with veteran sprinter Motspur although a start at Rosehill is favoured. The nine-year-old has been paid up for Saturday’s Westend Mazda Sprint (1100m) in Sydney and is also among nominations for Wednesday’s Listed Ramornie Handicap at Grafton (1200m). He is… Read More »
Peter Snowden has his sights on snaring the Ramornie Handicap at Grafton for the second successive year, nominating Parthian and Skytrain for the feature sprint. The pair was among 29 entires for next Wednesday’s race, along with the in-form Magic Cassius for Angela Davies and Con Karakatsanis-trained duo Riva De… Read More »
The well-travelled How Much My Love will shoot for his maiden stakes success in Saturday’s Listed Ascot Handicap at Eagle Farm. The gelding has been tested in black type company three times with his best result a sixth in the 2010 Glasshouse Handicap at the Sunshine Coast. Trainer Danny Williams… Read More »
A long-held theory about race distances is the only explanation trainer Gerald Ryan can find for Saramenha’s recent return to form. A two-time winner over 1100 metres, Ryan was convinced the filly was purely a sprinter after she failed twice when stepped up to 1400 metres. But some advice from Jay… Read More »
Camelot has been given an entry for the Great Voltigeur Stakes at York on August 22. It was widely believed the 2000 Guineas and dual Derby winner would head for the St Leger without having another run, but trainer Aidan O’Brien has given him the option of the premier trial… Read More »
Triple Group One winner Helmet will stand at Darley’s Northwood Stud in Victoria this spring. Helmet won the Group One Sires’ Produce and Champagne Stakes at two and added the 2011 Caulfield Guineas in his three-year-old season. Timeform rated him second to his Golden Slipper winning stablemate Sepoy who is… Read More »
Melbourne Cup winner Dunaden remains among the 17 entries for the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on July 21 along with last year’s winner Nathaniel. Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Danedream, disappointing at her most recent start, is also still a possible along with Deep… Read More »
Hugh Bowman has inched closer to snaring a century of metropolitan winners this season with a treble at Gosford on Wednesday. Victories aboard Darley youngster Treaty and the Chris Waller-trained pair of Mohtashem and She’s Clean at the Australian Turf Club meeting took his Sydney tally to 89-1/2 wins. There… Read More »
Jake Noonan got the better of his fellow apprentices at Caulfield last weekend and will be relying on a Sydney galloper to try to do likewise at Flemington. Noonan has the ride on the David Payne-trained Winning Glory in Saturday’s Rising Stars Final (1800m), restricted to junior riders only. Payne… Read More »
A perfect record on There’s Only One has put young jockey Daniel Stackhouse in the box seat to claim his first stakes victory at Flemington on Saturday. Connections of There’s Only One have stuck with Stackhouse for the $150,000 Listed Winter Championship Final (1600m) with the 22-year-old unbeaten on the… Read More »
Sydney jockey Jay Ford needed no persuading to return to Brisbane to ride Maythehorsebemagic in Saturday’s Group Three Queen’s Cup. Ford partnered the Mike Moroney-trained gelding to a last-start midfield finish in the Tatt’s Cup (2200m) and was impressed enough to commit to another interstate trip for the 3200m Eagle… Read More »
Trainer David Payne will be out to capitalise on the fresh record of Al’s Magic Miss when she returns at Rosehill on Saturday. The three-year-old has won three of her 15 starts and all those victories have come at either her first or second runs from a spell. It’s a… Read More »
Scratched from the Glasshouse Handicap because of a heavy track, Adnocon will line up at Eagle Farm on Saturday regardless of the conditions. The gelding is one of 11 final acceptors for the Listed Ascot Handicap (1200m), one of two stakes races on the Eagle Farm program along with the… Read More »
A win by Castlemagne King in Thursday’s Grafton Cup Prelude would catapult him into the $150,000 Grafton Cup. The Prelude (2106m) and John Carlton Cup (1200m) opens the five-day $1 million July Racing Carnival. Coffs Harbour trainer Basil Ryan said should the in-form six-year-old triumph in the Prelude a start… Read More »
