New Zealand trainer Tony Pike has Group One ambitions for Bostonian who has returned from a spell after a successful Queensland campaign. The gelding raced as The Bostonian in Australia where he started three times for three wins culminating in the Group Three Sunshine Coast Guineas. Bostonian won a barrier… Read More »
Chris Waller’s rebuilding phase has paid dividends during the spring with the Sydney trainer leading the way with Group One victories. After the final meeting of the Melbourne spring carnival at Flemington on Saturday, Waller heads Australia’s Group One tally with eight winners for the season. Winx certainly played her… Read More »
Gary Portelli has unveiled a couple of promising two-year-olds already this season but is looking to a stable veteran to keep up his good form when he runs at Rosehill. Seven-year-old Testashadow will line up in Saturday’s November Topaz (1900m) after a game third in the Listed Furphy Stakes (1800m)… Read More »
Royal Line has capped John Gosden’s remarkable season with a record sixth victory for the trainer in Doncaster’s November Handicap. Gosden’s Group One exploits at home and abroad led by Enable and Cracksman have been a high-profile theme throughout the summer. It was therefore a highly appropriate culmination in the… Read More »
Viddora will step up her title defence of the Group One Winterbottom Stakes with a barrier trial at Cranbourne. Monday’s trial over 990m is set to be the mare’s last piece of serious work before she flies out to Perth on Sunday for the Group One sprint on December 1…. Read More »
Donjuan Triumphant has delivered a poignant victory at Doncaster as Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha’s colours returned to the winner’s enclosure for the first time since the Leicester City chairman’s death. Trainer Andrew Balding spoke with evident emotion, reflecting on Donjuan Triumphant’s success in the Listed Wentworth Stake on Saturday (Sunday AEDT). The… Read More »
Champion jockey Damien Oliver has equalled a long-standing record in the final race of this year’s Melbourne Cup carnival at Flemington. Oliver’s victory aboard the Danny O’Brien-trained Order Of Command in Saturday’s Grand Handicap was the jockey’s 72nd winner at a Melbourne Cup carnival during a career spanning three decades…. Read More »
Trainer Jarrod McLean has secured the first Group One win of his career with the victory of Trap For Fools in the Mackinnon Stakes at Flemington. Running his own team of horses at Warrnambool, McLean also overseas the Darren Weir stable at the seaside town. Weir and McLean have been… Read More »
A breathtaking win from Santa Ana Lane in the feature sprint race of the Melbourne Cup carnival at Flemington has also left trainer Anthony Freedman wondering what might have been. Mark Zahra made the most of fellow jockey Ben Melham’s misfortune through a careless riding suspension, picking up the ride… Read More »
Feisty filly Hold The Line kept her unbeaten record intact as trainer David Vandyke plots a path towards the Magic Millions Guineas following her narrow win at the Sunshine Coast. Hold The Line, heavily backed to start the $2.40 favourite, held off the fast-finishing Red Chase ($101) to win by… Read More »
Madison County has lived up to his favouritism to win the Group One New Zealand 2000 Guineas for premier trainers Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman. Ridden by Matt Cameron, Madison County is owned by the China Horse Club whose chairman Teo Ah Khing was on course at Riccarton on Saturday…. Read More »
By anyone’s standards, Godolphin has had a great season so far and it has continued with Kiamichi giving the Australian arm of the racing and breeding giant its first two-year-old winner for 2018-19. The filly’s debut win at Rosehill on Saturday is also a first for her sire Sidestep, runner-up… Read More »
A little touch of magic has come to Rosehill as the spring racing carnival draws to a close in Sydney. Magician and DJ, Apollo Jackson, who has predicted Melbourne Cup winners two years running, entertained the 12,000 strong-crowd at Saturday’s race meet as fashion took centre stage for Ladies Day…. Read More »
Emotions were running high for trainer Desleigh Forster after Chapter And Verse scored a last-to-first win at the Sunshine Coast. Chapter And Verse was bred by Basil Nolan whose son Basil Jnr, 45, was killed in a tragic workplace accident last Tuesday at Gladfield, near Warwick, southeast of Brisbane. A… Read More »
The Villiers Stakes looms as the summer target for Sky Boy and his co-trainer Anthony Cummings believes he can go even higher than Group Two level as he continues to mature. The four-year-old claimed his third consecutive win this preparation in Saturday’s Australian Turf Club Handicap (2000m) at Rosehill, leading… Read More »
Kenedna has returned from retirement to land the Group Two Matriarch Stakes at Flemington. The Darren Weir-trained five-year-old was retired after one run as a four-year-old following a string of problems. She was heading to stud until Weir inspected her at his farm at Baringhup and convinced the owners to… Read More »
After just falling short of forcing his way into the Melbourne Cup, imported stayer Jaameh has claimed a consolation with a fighting victory in the Group Three Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Flemington. The Lindsay Park-trained Jaameh finished a close second in The Bart Cummings at Flemington earlier this spring and… Read More »
Trainer John Thompson will consider a trip to Perth with Dreamforce after the gelding led throughout to claim a stakes race at Flemington. Victory in Saturday’s Group Three Chatham Stakes over 1400m was some some consolation for the connections of Dreamforce missing a start in last week’s Kennedy Mile at… Read More »
Champagne Jet is Magic Millions-bound after toppling highly rated stablemate Betaima at the Sunshine Coast. Trainer Toby Edmonds is hoping the $42,700 first prize money on Saturday will be enough to secure a start in the $2 million Magic 2YO Millions (1200m) at the Gold Coast on January 12 for… Read More »
Victoria’s premier trainer Darren Weir has earmarked the Australian Guineas as a logical autumn target for Ringerdingding after the talented colt unleashed a powerful finish to win the Listed Springtime Stakes at Flemington. But the colt’s spring carnival is not yet over with Weir looking to run the three-year-old in… Read More »
