Trainer Mick Price has been proven correct with his decision to tackle the Listed Cranbourne Cup with Octabello. The victory of Octabello denied Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young victory in their hometown Cup. Ridden by Noel Callow, Octobello ($17) lunged late to beat Sully ($11) with the $1.80 favourite Furrion… Read More »
The outstanding win by filly Champagne Boom in the Listed Debutante Stakes at Caulfield has shown Queensland’s super sire Spirit of Boom will be no one-season wonder. Spirit of Boom, who stands at Eureka Stud on the Darling Downs, was last season’s leading juvenile sire by winners with 19. Champagne… Read More »
Trapeze Artist has been inoculated in preparation for racing overseas, either in Hong Kong or England, or hopefully both. The four-year-old finished a gallant second to Redzel in the $13 million Everest at Randwick on a heavy track which is not his preferred surface. His owner Bert Vieira and trainer… Read More »
Too Darn Hot has kept his unbeaten record intact with his win in England’s premier two-year-old race, the Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket. The John Gosden-trained colt went into the race on Saturday (Sunday AEDT) as favourite and got the job done in scintillating style. Christmas, the outsider of three runners… Read More »
Irish jockey Pat Cosgrave is on a mission for Godolphin and trainer Saeed bin Suroor. Part one was completed on Saturday when he guided Benbatl to victory in the Group One Caulfield Stakes. His next target is Saturday’s Caulfield Cup 2018 in which he rides Best Solution, a $17 chance… Read More »
Group One winner Written By will be out to stamp his Coolmore Stud Stakes credentials when he has his final lead-up in the Blue Sapphire Stakes at Caulfield. The Group Three $350,000 Blue Sapphire Stakes for three-year-olds is the feature on the middle day of the three-meeting Caulfield Cup carnival… Read More »
The diversification of race clubs will be highlighted when the Brisbane Racing Club declares an operating profit of $1.3 million for the past financial year despite losing more than $4 million on its racing operation. The profit will be declared at the club’s annual general meeting at Eagle Farm racecourse… Read More »
The stewards room became a revolving door following the last race on Caulfield Guineas day with six jockeys suspended. All six have deferred their bans. UK rider James Doyle was suspended for the second time in as many visits to Melbourne after being suspended for 10 meetings on Blair House… Read More »
Racing officials have revelled in a bumper crowd for The Everest, brushing off the negative publicity leading into Australia’s richest horse race. After more than 300,000 people signed a petition during the week opposing The Everest’s Opera House barrier draw lightshow, a crowd of 40,578 squeezed into Randwick racecourse on… Read More »
Sydney’s racing chiefs have claimed a points victory after a bumper crowd on Everest Day at Randwick closed a week of controversy for Australia’s richest, and now most controversial, horse race. After more than 300,000 people signed a petition during the week opposing The Everest’s Opera House barrier draw lightshow… Read More »
Racegoers showed they still had plenty more party left in them as they rocked out to former One Direction star Liam Payne at Sydney’s $13 million race day. After the final race the English musician took to the Theatre of the Horse stage treating the crowd to his hits including… Read More »
Sydney’s racing chiefs have claimed a points victory after a bumper crowd on Everest Day at Randwick closed a week of controversy for Australia’s richest, and now most controversial, horse race. After more than 300,000 people signed a petition during the week opposing The Everest’s Opera House barrier draw lightshow… Read More »
The Aidan O’Brien-trained Yucatan has stormed into prominence for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups with an arrogant win in the Herbert Power Stakes at Caulfield. Yucatan made a one-act affair of Saturday’s 2400m Group Three race which carried with it a ballot exemption to the winner into next weekend’s Caulfield… Read More »
The Victorian-based Gelagotis stable has sprung another Randwick raid with Moss ‘N’ Dale scoring in the Group Three Craven Plate. After surviving a protest to claim the Group One $2 million Australian Derby with Levendi in April, the Peter Gelagotis-trained wet-tracker was virtually unchallenged on heavy turf with the six-year-old… Read More »
Melbourne trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace have continued to make their mark on Sydney racing with Big Blue winning the $500,000 St Leger off the back of two hurdle wins in country Victoria. The training partnership has now had a winner at the past three Sydney meetings with Dubious… Read More »
James McDonald says The Autumn Sun will only get better after the valuable colt disposed left a Caulfield Guineas field in his wake. The Chris Waller-trained colt raced away to a four-and-a-half length win in Saturday’s Group One race that carried a $2 million purse. Sent out the $1.75 favourite… Read More »
Trapeze Artist has just failed to deliver a dream result in The Everest for his owner Bert Vieira but his second and a winner earlier on the day at Randwick has brightened his life a little. Vieira came to the races on Saturday for the first time since his wife… Read More »
Benbatl is set for a clash with champion Winx in the Cox Plate after making an immediate impact in Australia with a Group One win in the Caulfield Stakes. In a driving finish to Saturday’s 2000m weight-for-age race between two international visitors from the global Godolphin operation, the Saeed Bin… Read More »
Trainer Greg Hickman has been left to ponder what might have been after Pierata was forced to settle for an Everest consolation prize at Randwick. In a prelude to the world’s richest race on turf, the four-year-old ($4.40 eq fav) scored by 2- 3/4 lengths in Saturday’s Group Three Sydney… Read More »
After a week of controversy, drama and a lot of rain, Redzel has reaffirmed his status as Australia’s best sprinter by defending his title in the $13 million Everest at Randwick. Trained by Peter and Paul Snowden for a large Triple Crown syndicate which celebrated what they thought was their… Read More »
