Trainer Les Ross has rejected overtures from several senior riders and stuck with apprentice Zoe White for Miss Sara at Doomben. White rode Miss Sara at her first three starts last year when the filly was placed in all three including seconds behind top youngsters Singular Sensation and Blue Book…. Read More »
Written By will join a select group of two-year-olds if successful in the Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield. The Grahame Begg-trained colt will attempt to emulate the feats of Sepoy (2011), Bel Esprit (2002), Let’s Get Physical (1985) and Rancher (1982) to win the colts and geldings Blue Diamond Prelude/Blue… Read More »
Unbeaten colt D’Argento can cement himself as a prime contender for the Randwick Guineas when he steps up in class at Rosehill. Trainer Chris Waller believes Saturday’s Group Two Hobartville Stakes will give him a clear indication where the colt sits in the pecking order. “If he runs the top… Read More »
Training partners Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra are no strangers to saddling multiple runners in a race. But they enter rare air in the Group One Oakleigh Plate (1100m) at Caulfield on Saturday with four representatives after entering five for the sprint. In Thursday’s market order they have Booker ($8.50),… Read More »
Trainer Robert Heathcote hopes his plan to finally get a proper line on the ability of Love And Rock It is not ruined by rain. Doomben was rated in the good range on Thursday but up to 75mm of rain is predicted for the next three days. Love and Rock… Read More »
Lonhro and Guelph were stars on the track but their son Encryption will still be striving to achieve something his famous sire and dam could not in the $1.5 million Blue Diamond Stakes. Lonhro finished fourth as favourite in the 2001 Blue Diamond at Caulfield in his first Group One… Read More »
Former European stayer Slow Pace will never live up to hopes he could be a Cups horse but he can claim a small piece of history in Brisbane. The 10-year-old can become only the fourth horse of that age to win a metropolitan race in Queensland in the past 60… Read More »
A slow beginning followed by a moderate tempo gave punters who took the short odds about Nasaayim an empty feeling at Caulfield. Backed from $1.50 into $1.40 in Wednesday’s Spicer Thoroughbreds Handicap (1200m), Nasaayim finally did her part in the closing stages of the two-year-old race to win by a… Read More »
Blake Shinn will miss two major autumn carnival meetings after failing to ride out a mount at Canterbury. Racing NSW stewards charged Shinn after $1.35 favourite Danzie finished third in the the TAB Handicap (1550m), a nose behind second placegetter Budderoo Knight. “He stopped riding a stride and a half… Read More »
Dreams Of Paris has provided Mitchell Beer with an emotional city maiden win at Caulfield after going out on his own as a trainer. Formerly in a training partnership with fellow Mornington horseman Max Hinton, Beer commenced training in his own right at the beginning of the month. Jvala provided… Read More »
Four-year-old Mr Sneaky gets another opportunity at Group One level in the Futurity Stakes on a day when his younger sibling could also chase a feature win. Mr Sneaky forms part of a field of 11 for Saturday’s weight-for-age Futurity Stakes (1400m) while his three-quarter brother Mr So And So… Read More »
A few road trips are on the cards for Godolphin star Hartnell who returns to Caulfield for the Group Two Peter Young Stakes ahead of a planned Australian Cup mission. Seven-year-old Hartnell won the Group One C F Orr Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield last Saturday week before being taken back… Read More »
There was a touch of irony when jockey Matt McGillivray rode his first winner since resuming from a long suspension at the Gold Coast. McGillivray steered the favourite Boomsara ($2.70) to win the colts and gelding division of the Two-Year-Old Maiden (900m) and give sire Spirit Of Boom yet another… Read More »
Top Queensland filly Houtzen has worked strongly between races at the Gold Coast in preparation for a southern campaign. Houtzen, who hasn’t since finishing ninth in the Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington on November 4, gave stablemate Mystic Moon several lengths from the 600m before picking her up in the… Read More »
The training milestones continue for Jean Dubious, with the Frenchman complementing his first metropolitan win with a coveted two-year-old triumph at Canterbury. Aylmerton made the perfect debut in the Pluck@Vinery Handicap to indicate a bright future for the first progeny of top French stallion Siyouni to race in Australia. The… Read More »
Snitty Kitty will be out to deliver on a long-range plan in the Group One Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield. Trainer Henry Dwyer pinpointed the Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield as Snitty Kitty’s best opportunity to try to snare a Group One win. The four-year-old mare heads into Saturday’s 1100m handicap on… Read More »
Stablemates So You Win and Tangmere took an encouraging step towards the Rosehill Guineas after engineering a one-two finish at Canterbury. Trainer Chris Waller has earmarked the $500,000 Group One 2000m Rosehill Guineas on March 24 for the duo after they dominated the #Theraces Handicap (1550m). “I’ve no doubt that’s… Read More »
Golden Slipper favourite Sunlight has settled into her new surroundings as she prepares for her first Sydney start at Rosehill. Sunlight travelled smoothly from Melbourne and had a gallop at Warwick Farm on Wednesday with Tim Clark aboard. Clark will ride Sunlight in Saturday’s Group Two Silver Slipper Stakes. “She’s… Read More »
Liam Birchley will be allowed to continue training in Queensland despite reports in the media of text messages relating to the Aquanita doping scandal. Queensland Racing Integrity Commission Commissioner Ross Barnett told a media conference in Brisbane that his staff had already been aware of the allegations made against Birchley… Read More »
The leaking of text exchanges between central figures allegedly involved in a horse racing doping scandal will not delay the start of hearings into case, Racing Victoria says. A series of text messages reportedly sent by trainers and stable employees at centre of the inquiry were published by News Corp… Read More »
