Having defeated a subsequent city winner when breaking her maiden at Echuca, lightly raced filly Acting will return to town chasing her own metropolitan victory at Sandown. A homebred for Waikato Stud, the three-year-old Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young-trained Acting is by Savabeel out of Hollywood and is a grand-daughter… Read More »
A horse rated one of the better older stayers in Ireland has figured in a sale to Australian interests and will be set for a spring Cups campaign. Prominent syndicator Australian Bloodstock has bought a controlling interest in Mustajeer, a seven-year-old to southern hemisphere time who has been sparingly raced… Read More »
Blue Diamond winner Lyre is set to make her season return in the Quezette Stakes at Caulfield but dual stakes winning colt I Am Immortal will be held back and bypass the Vain Stakes. Lyre headlines the 19 nominations for Saturday’s Group Three Quezette Stakes (1100m) for three-year-old fillies which… Read More »
Kate Grimwade, an integral part of Godolphin’s Australian racing stable for the past 12 months, will leave the global operation’s Melbourne yard. Grimwade will return to England after arriving in Australia last August to run Godolphin’s Carbine Lodge at Flemington for head trainer James Cummings. She has cited family reasons… Read More »
Rising star Queensland-based sire Mahisara has been euthanised after suffering an inoperable twisted bowel. Mahisara counted the Group Three Sandown Stakes and the Listed Tatt’s Australia Stakes among his seven race wins for trainer Paul Messara. A son of champion sire More Than Ready, Mahisara has been standing at Wattle… Read More »
Talented filly Villami will be held over for a week rather than run at either Randwick or Caulfield. Trainer Gerald Ryan entered the three-year-old for Saturday’s Quezette Stakes in Melbourne and a benchmark race in Sydney on the Kensington track, both over 1100 metres. But he has decided she is… Read More »
Anthony Cummings has taken the wraps off Baller and Libertini with both winning barrier trials at Randwick as they step up another gear heading to spring. Cummings plans to start both on August 24 when black-type racing gets into full swing at Randwick with the meeting featuring the Group One… Read More »
Lindsay Park will begin to unveil its extensive array of spring prospects with four runners in the P B Lawrence Stakes at Caulfield. Cox Plate favourite Mystic Journey heads the 15 nominations for Saturday’s race and has been installed the $1.75 favourite from Godolphin’s Hartnell at $5.50. Ben Hayes, who… Read More »
The cancellation of a set of barrier trials at Tatura has forced trainer Lindsey Smith to look at alternatives with two of his stable’s Group One performers. Black Heart Bart and Malaguerra were scheduled to trial on Monday ahead of possibly running in Adelaide on Saturday in the weight-for-age Spring… Read More »
A freak accident in a jumps race in Victoria has left jockey Tom Sadler rneeding surgery on a fractured leg. Sadler, who stayed aboard his mount, was kicked by another runner that had fallen in a steeplechase race at Casterton on Sunday. The jockey was left nursing a fractured tibia… Read More »
Eagle Farm racetrack will return to full operation to head a revitalised Queensland summer carnival. In a joint statement on Monday, Racing Queensland and the Brisbane Racing Club released details of the nine-week carnival which will include 22 black-type races and improved prize money. Officials are hoping the fact Eagle… Read More »
Trainer Chad Brown has claimed all three Group One turf races at the Arlington Million meeting in Chicago. The Brown-trained Bricks and Mortar won thre feature when he ran down the Aidan O’Brien-trained Magic Wand and he also sent out Sistercharlie to win the Beverly D. Stakes and Valid Point… Read More »
Glamour mares Arcadia Queen and Enticing Star will stay home a little while longer before trialling in public. The two Bob Peters-owned mares joined Chris Waller’s stable a few weeks ago from Perth. Both are headed to the $14 million Everest and had been listed to run in barrier trials… Read More »
Leading Toowoomba trainer Tony Sears hopes to have his first runners in a new partnership with his daughter Maddy within a fortnight. There have been father-daughter training partnerships in other states but it will be the first in the Queensland metropolitan area. Sears who is a regular in the top… Read More »
Trainer Colin Little is looking forward to the return of Vassilator despite delaying the Group One placegetter’s season kick-off by a week. Little had Vassilator entered for the Aurie’s Star Handicap at Flemington on Saturday but has elected instead to start him in the Regal Roller Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield…. Read More »
Absolute Flirt will clash with some classy fillies in the Quezette Stakes at Caulfield and her trainer Danny O’Brien hopes the sprinter has better luck than in her season return. Entries for the Group Three Quezette Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield on Saturday are expected to feature Blue Diamond Stakes winner… Read More »
Trainer Barry Baldwin is happy to ease fan favourite The Candy Man back into racing as he heads to the Group One Epsom Handicap. The Candy Man, the winner of seven races in a row before his last-start Brisbane Cup defeat, is set to trial at Doomben on Tuesday. He… Read More »
While it’s back to the drawing board with Vegadaze, Anthony Cummings has a spring in his step, and with good reason. The Randwick trainer is assembling what is arguably his best group of carnival horses in several seasons, although he has some work to do with Vegadaze who ran an… Read More »
Kenedna will face a quality field when she launches her Caulfield Cup campaign in the P B Lawrence Stakes at Caulfield. Saturday’s Group Two P B Lawrence (1400m) looms as the starting point for a number of potential spring stars including Cox Plate favourite Mystic Journey, evergreen gelding Hartnell and… Read More »
Experienced Victorian apprentice Chelsea Hall will fill a void in Brisbane racing when she gets into full swing during her stay in the north. There is a lack of experienced three-kilo claiming apprentices in Brisbane with the majority having 2kg or 1.5kg claims. Hall is on loan to Eagle Farm… Read More »
