Moonlight Cloud, who ran Black Caviar to a head in the Diamond Jubilee at Royal Ascot, has been ruled out of the July Cup by trainer Freddy Head. The French filly was the second favourite for the July Cup at Newmarket on Saturday week which will also feature Australian mare… Read More »
Champion Frankel is fine fettle ahead of his quest to stretch his 100 per cent record to 12 at Goodwood next month. The Sussex Stakes on August 1 will, as expected, be the next port of call for the four-year-old who was last seen delivering an 11-length demolition in the… Read More »
Roi D’Jeu will have an in-form Eddie Wilkinson in the saddle should trainer Craig Ritchie decide on a Queen’s Cup start for the stayer at Eagle Farm. Ritchie has booked Wilkinson but was still undecided whether Roi D’Jeu would line up in Saturday’s Listed 3200m contest after the gelding disappointed… Read More »
Premier Sydney trainer Chris Waller will rely on three-year-old Disciple as his only Grafton Cup carnival runner. A Canterbury winner in May, Disciple will contest the $50,000 Grafton Guineas, the main support race on Ramornie Handicap day on Wednesday week. “Disciple looks like being the only horse we send to… Read More »
The time is right for Menados to enter the stakes racing arena on at Flemington Saturday but Nigel Blackiston is already making long-term plans for the promising galloper. Blackiston was pleased Menados had secured enough points to run in Saturday’s $150,000 Listed Winter Championship Final (1600m) which will bring to… Read More »
Unanimously is well primed for his return to racing but trainer Matthew Dale isn’t counting on the sprinter’s almost perfect first-up record as a recipe for Rosehill success on Saturday. Unanimously has won three of his four first-up starts yet Dale says he’s not convinced the four-year-old will deliver a… Read More »
Six scheduled flat races for Sandown on Wednesday have been moved to Kilmore because of Melbourne’s wet weather. Racing Victoria decided the midweek meeting couldn’t go ahead at Sandown as rain played havoc with the state of the track. The three jumps races on the program have been abandoned but… Read More »
The Queen’s filly Set To Music will bid to win her second Oaks of the season at Haydock on Saturday. The Michael Bell-trained Set To Music already has the Warwickshire version to her name and will line up in the Lancashire Oaks. “She’ll head to Haydock on Saturday,” Bell said…. Read More »
Trainer Corine Barande-Barbe has asked police to make inquiries into the positive sample returned by Cirrus Des Aigles after his run in the Prix d’Ispahan at Longchamp in May. Barande-Barbe suspects foul play could be the reason last season’s Champion Stakes winner tested positive for “a massive” dose of an… Read More »
So You Think is the early favourite for his defence of the Eclipse Stakes which is expected to be his last race before he returns to Australia to stand at Coolmore Stud. Race sponsor Coral has installed the 10 time Group One winner at 10-11 for Saturday’s feature at Sandown… Read More »
Scheduling has convinced trainer Anthony Cummings to give promising galloper Your Song one more start as a two-year-old. Your Song is being aimed at the Group One Golden Rose and was expected to head to the paddock after a breakthrough win in Cummings’ absence at Warwick Farm. Instead, Cummings, back… Read More »
More than a dozen horses, including high-class jumper Tobouggie Nights, have been accepted for the midweek meeting at Sandown following Sunday’s washout at Warrnambool. The winner of this year’s Von Doussa-Great Eastern Steeple double at Oakbank is in the seven-horse field for the $50,000 Event Landscaping Solutions Steeplechase (3400m). The… Read More »
Patinack Farm trainer John Thompson is expected to cull his Queen’s Cup numbers as he prepares to spread his stayers between Brisbane and Grafton. Thompson is targeting the $150,000 Queen’s Cup at Eagle Farm on Saturday as well as next week’s Grafton Cup. He has four nominations for the Queen’s… Read More »
The prospect of a wet Flemington track has prompted trainer Troy Portelli to bypass the Victorian Sprint Series Final with Eight Bills and send the gelding to Sydney. Eight Bills was among 14 nominations for the Benchmark 95 over 1100 metres on Saturday’s Rosehill program with last-start Takeover Target Stakes… Read More »
Popular stallion Blevic has died at South Australia’s Kambula Stud from complications following colic surgery. Trained by David Hayes to win the 1994 VRC Sires’ Produce and Victoria Derby, Blevic had been the star resident at the Toole family’s stud since 1996. In his sixteen seasons he served 1218 mares… Read More »
John Gosden is targeting further Group One prizes with Izzi Top after the talented filly opened her account at the highest level in the Barclays Bank Ireland Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh. The daughter of Pivotal finished third in last year’s Oaks at Epsom and was sent off at… Read More »
Marco Botti is praying for a dry spell following Australian-owned Jakkalberry’s satisfactory performance in the Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot. The six-year-old joined the Italian trainer late last year and has already made good progress, with an excellent third in the Dubai Sheema Classic his best effort to date. He… Read More »
Red Cadeaux has taken no harm from his Hardwicke Stakes placing as the stayer continues his build-up to another Melbourne Cup start. Trainer Ed Dunlop reports the six-year-old to have taken his latest run at Royal Ascot in his stride and all roads lead to Flemington on November 6, when… Read More »
Camelot will have either one more outing or a racecourse gallop before his bid for Triple Crown glory in the St Leger at Doncaster in September. The 2000 Guineas and Epsom Derby winner kept his unbeaten record intact with a determined victory in Saturday’s Irish Derby and is now set… Read More »
Australian Oaks runner-up Aliyana Tilde will be set on a path towards the Epsom Handicap this spring with the prestigious mile to determine whether she steps up in distance. Trainer Kerry Parker is wary of declaring her a Caulfield Cup contender mindful that many staying three-year-olds don’t make the transition… Read More »
