Lindsay Park looks set for a successful season with its three-year-olds after providing a one-two finish in the Vain Stakes at Caulfield. Saturday’s Group Three race was the first stakes race of the new racing season for three-year-olds with Tony Nicconi leading home stablemate Long Leaf. Ridden by Luke Nolen,… Read More »
Winx has set a benchmark for winning streaks in Australian racing with a first-up victory at Randwick. The world’s best racehorse overtook unbeaten Black Caviar in extending her sequence to 26 wins in the race named in her honour – the Winx Stakes. In posting her 19th Group One win,… Read More »
In the first real test for the new season’s three-year-old fillies, Fiesta has set the benchmark in the Silver Shadow Stakes at Randwick. The Chris Waller-trained Fiesta, raced by a Star Thoroughbreds syndicate, won the Group Three Widden Stakes in February before finishing second to subsequent Group One winner Seabrook… Read More »
Fighting Teo confirmed his rating as a stayer of the future when he won the battle of the giants with a gritty performance at the Gold Coast. Fighting Teo ($3.80) who stands well over 17 hands beat the 18 hands tall Meteorologist ($21) by a length in the Superchicken Seafood… Read More »
An exhibition gallop between races at Caulfield was just the work David Hayes wanted to see from its Everest contender Vega Magic. Senior co-trainer Hayes said the gelding, who was ridden by race jockey Damien Oliver, had a healthy blow after the work but was on target to defend his… Read More »
An astute placement by trainer Clare Cunningham has reaped its reward with Segenhoe causing an upset in the staying race at Randwick. Sent out at $19 in Saturday’s Bob Ingham Handicap (2400m) Segenhoe was taken to the front early by Tim Clark and never relinquished his advantage, beating Vaucluse Bay… Read More »
Trainer Tony McEvoy has plans to return Miss Siska to Adelaide for a stakes race after she won her first Melbourne metropolitan race at Caulfield. The half-sister to multiple Group One-winning sprinter Hay List, Miss Siska took out Saturday’s Beveridge Williams Handicap (1700m). Ridden by Luke Currie, Miss Siska ($4.80)… Read More »
Hugh Bowman has kicked off Winx Stakes Day with a win aboard timid gelding Butchoy in the TAB Highway Plate at Randwick. The four-year-old notched his first city success after sitting just off the pace before moving inside to pull 1-1/2 lengths clear of Cisco Bay and Not Bossy over… Read More »
Trainer Angela Plumb and her jockey brother Ryan Plumb wrote themselves into a little piece of Queensland racing history when they combined to win the Oakwood Park Handicap at the Gold Coast. Angela and Ryan became the first Queensland-based siblings to combine for a metropolitan win in the state when… Read More »
Well-bred mare Awake The Stars added plenty of value to her worth in her new career as a broodmare with an easy win at the Gold Coast. Heavily backed to start $2.70, Awake The Stars lived up to her favouritism to beat Sister Patti ($18) by 3-1/4 lengths with a… Read More »
Former jumps jockey Craig Durden reached the top of his profession, claiming two Grand National Steeplechase victories along the way. Durden, who retired in 2010, was associated with many of the top jumpers from the stables of Jim Houlahan, Eric Musgrove and Robbie Laing. But he has a soft spot… Read More »
The Regal Roller Stakes will be run without two well-performed entries after consistent sprinter Inn Keeper joined Group Two winner Rich Charm as a withdrawal from the Listed race. Trainer Udyta Clarke scratched Rich Charm on Thursday while the Symon Wilde-trained Inn Keeper was taken out on Friday to instead… Read More »
Stablemates Syd’s Coin and Write Enuff are at double figure odds but Craig Williams is more than happy to be riding the two in three-year-old stakes races at Caulfield. The pair, trained at Cranbourne by Ken Keys, are both trial winners heading into their return runs on Saturday. Syd’s Coin… Read More »
Trainer Mark Newnham is happy to bypass shorter course races to kick off Inglis Classic winner The Enzo’s season over a more suitable distance in the Up And Coming Stakes. The Enzo holds a nomination for next month’s Golden Rose and October’s Group One Caulfield Guineas (1600m) and Newnham said… Read More »
David Payne believes Kementari is the only horse who can beat Winx when she returns at Randwick and will be more than happy if Ace High can finish within three or four lengths of the winner. Ace High is the leading home-grown hope in markets on the Caulfield and Melbourne… Read More »
Luke Currie has been buoyed by Sunlight’s trackwork since her return to Melbourne as the jockey prepares to reunite with the star filly on race day in the Quezette Stakes at Caulfield. Currie rode Sunlight in five of the filly’s first six starts last season for four wins including the… Read More »
A year ago, Craig Williams almost cost Hartnell victory in the P B Lawrence Stakes but not because of anything he did wrong in the race. There will be no repeat of the bizarre circumstances on Saturday when Hartnell defends the 1400m-Group Two PB Lawrence Stakes at Caulfield. Stewards hit… Read More »
While it has been frustrating for trainer Tony McEvoy that multiple Group One placegetter Oohood has yet to win, he is adamant with a touch more luck it would be a much different story. Oohood can shed that maiden tag when she resumes in Saturday’s Group Two Silver Shadow Stakes… Read More »
Victorian apprentice jockey Anthony Boyd is conscious and recovering in hospital following a trackwork fall at Ballarat. Boyd was airlifted to Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital in an induced coma following the fall on Thursday morning. Victorian Jockeys Association chief executive Matt Hyland said on Friday initial scans had cleared Boyd of… Read More »
Trainer Chris Anderson hopes he can achieve his final aim with veteran Colour of Money at the Gold Coast for high profile owner Dato Tan Chin Nam. The seven-year-old Colour of Money steps out to 2200m for the first time this campaign in Saturday’s Superchicken Seafood and Burgers Handicap. Colour… Read More »
