Chris Waller believes dual Group One winner Egg Tart is finally poised to recapture her three-year-old form at elite level in the Coolmore Classic at Rosehill. Considered a rising star after winning the Schweppes Oaks and Queensland Oaks last year, her momentum was halted by an eye infection in the… Read More »
Goulburn trainer Danny Williams isn’t afraid to travel to Melbourne when he has the right horse. Having found a suitable race for lightly raced but consistent filly She Knows at Flemington on Saturday, Williams is prepared for the gamble. Williams won’t be on course to see the filly run in… Read More »
Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott have opted to take the path of least resistance with promising filly Shumookh by sidestepping the Coolmore Classic. The three-year-old lines up instead in the Group Two Phar Lap Stakes (1500m), a step down from her last start in the Group One Surround Stakes (1400m)… Read More »
Khulaasa has been knocking on the door of a win and co-trainer Tom Dabernig believes the two-year-old gets her time to shine in a Group Three race at Flemington. The filly has finished runner-up in her two starts which have both been on the straight course at Flemington over 1000m… Read More »
Top Tasmanian galloper Hellova Street clashes with a couple of genuine stars in the Blamey Stakes at Flemington, striving for his biggest win and a significant milestone. Saturday’s Group Two Blamey Stakes (1600m) has a field of five headed by dual Group One-winning Darren Weir-trained stablemates Tosen Stardom and Humidor…. Read More »
Uptown Lad has been ruled out of the Provincial Championships final because of injury. Wyong trainer Kim Waugh told Racing NSW stewards on Friday the four-year-old had injured his off side tendon and would be be spelled. Once the Provincial Championships qualifying races are complete the highest-rated fourth placegetter will… Read More »
As a former long-term Sydney trainer Grahame Begg knows his way around Rosehill. And by utilising a right-handed track in his new home, Begg’s Golden Slipper-bound Written By should not lose his bearings either. The Blue Diamond Stakes winner has his first start outside of Melbourne as favourite in Saturday’s… Read More »
New Zealand stakes winner Sir Statham will be aiming for a change of luck in Australia when he tackles the Listed Goldmarket at the Gold Coast. Sir Statham has had four starts for trainer Kelly Doughty and no luck in any of them with the latest a four-length eighth in… Read More »
In-form Sydney jockey Jason Collett will replace the suspended Corey Brown on Ef Troop in the $3.5 million Golden Slipper on Saturday week. Brown was partly successful on Friday in an appeal against a suspension from last Saturday’s Randwick meeting but not enough to ride on Slipper day. Brown rode… Read More »
Melbourne’s weather and the effect it may have on the track will determine whether Abyssinian lines up at Flemington. The lightly raced four-year-old is scheduled to take on more seasoned rivals in Saturday’s The Curragh Racecourse Handicap (1600m). Trainer Enver Jusufovic says he will shy away from running the mare… Read More »
Trainer Bruce Hill is hoping some of the luck his apprentice Jag Guthmann-Chester is having will rub off on stakes-winner Man of His Word at the Gold Coast. Man Of His Word is set to resume in the Listed Goldmarket (1200m) ahead of a possible autumn and winter campaign. Guthmann-Chester… Read More »
Trainer Chris Munce has made key gear changes for his two runners in the $250,000 Two-Year-Old Jewel at the Gold Coast. Munce has been in great form with seven winners in the past three weeks mainly on the back of his rising young stars. He has Boomsara and Elaborate in… Read More »
As a three-year-old Rising Red was a typical New Zealand stayer, tall and skinny. But after a little over a year on the sidelines the transformation from what his co-trainer calls a boy into a racehorse has been remarkable. Rising Red hasn’t raced since finishing second to Gingernuts in the… Read More »
Trainer Michael Nolan is based on the Darling Downs in Toowoomba but can continue his run of success at the Gold Coast with chances in three feature races. Nolan recently sailed past 1000 career wins with the majority on his home track and in Brisbane. But he has made a… Read More »
Irish trainer Willie Mullins has expressed deep pride after setting a record for the most winners in Cheltenham Festival history. Mullins passed Nicky Henderson’s mark of 60 winners when Laurina claimed the Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle on Thursday to add to the earlier success of Penhill in the Stayers’ Hurdle. Mullins… Read More »
Chautauqua has run out of time to make his return in the William Reid Stakes with the champion sprinter missing a jump-out at Flemington. After refusing thee times to leave the barriers in trials in Sydney, Chautauqua has been ordered to trial twice before he races again. One of those… Read More »
Champion jumps jockey Steven Pateman has made a return to the winners’ enclosure with a double at Warrnambool. Pateman spent the latter part of the 2017 jumps season on the sidelines with a broken leg and only returned to race riding on February 7. At his fifth ride back he… Read More »
Apprentice Stephanie Thornton heads to the Blamey Stakes meeting at Flemington with the opportunity to chase a first stakes race win. Thornton’s book of five rides at Saturday’s meeting includes last-start winners Metronome in the TBV Thoroughbred Breeders Stakes (1200m) and Coldstone in the Listed March Stakes (1400m). Both horses… Read More »
Peter Snowden hopes blinkers will curb Spin’s wandering eye, a drawback that prevented the colt from already qualifying for the Golden Slipper. Spin has emerged as Peter and Paul Snowden’s best hope for the $3.5 million Golden Slipper, and had he been more focused first-up in the Group Two Skyline… Read More »
With the Sydney autumn in full swing, Lindsay Park has added to its northern base as it seeks more feature race wins. Coming off a successful seven days that brought victories in the Australian Cup and Newmarket Handicap at Flemington and the Adelaide Cup at Morphettville, Lindsay Park now wants… Read More »
