Lindsay Park is confident it has Keen Array back to the form that produced a stakes race victory at Caulfield 12 months ago. Keen Array won last year’s Testa Rossa Stakes (1200m) and contests the race again on Saturday as topweight. He won the Listed race with 54.5kg last year… Read More »
Taxed by a first-up win at Randwick, Sweet Redemption is now looking to bounce back in the Golden Pendant. The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained mare opened her campaign in style when she won the Group Three Toy Show Quality (1300m) on August 19. Bott said the effort expended by… Read More »
Weights will not be raised for the Caulfield Cup or Melbourne Cup if the designated topweights do not accept for the respective races. Racing Victoria announced the changes for the two feature handicaps on Friday. Racing Australia amended a rule this month to give Principal Racing Authorities flexibility whether they… Read More »
The field for the $10 million Everest continues to take shape with Chris Waller Racing announcing the Gerald Ryan-trained Deploy will occupy its slot for the world’s richest sprint race at Randwick. Deploy is the eighth confirmed starter in the 12-strong field for the 1200m Everest on October 14. Waller,… Read More »
John Thompson is looking to Thy Kingdom Come to spearhead a three-pronged assault on the Gloaming Stakes at Rosehill to justify a start in the Group One Spring Champion Stakes. The Randwick trainer puts the colt’s form above stablemates All Day and Badge of Gameness as he completes preparations for… Read More »
Neville Parnham will wait until race day to decide on tactics for Ellicazoom who makes her spring return from a wide barrier in the Group Three How Now Stakes at Caulfield. Ellicazoom is one of three runners on Saturday’s program for Parnham, including Listed Testa Rossa Stakes hopeful Malibu Style… Read More »
After a slow start to the season apprentice Beau Mertens is getting into gear just as the spring carnival heats up. Last season’s leading apprentice, Mertens was locked in a jockeys’ premiership battle with Craig Williams before losing out over the concluding meetings. He then took a well-earned break before… Read More »
Paul Snowden is after his first Golden Rose win, with his training partner, father Peter, arguably best credentialed to mastermind another triumph in the first three-year-old Group One race of the Sydney spring. Peter Snowden is the race’s most successful trainer with three winners – Forensics (2008), Denman (2009) and… Read More »
Danny Williams is looking for a change of luck in his next Highway Handicap experience at Rosehill. The Goulburn trainer has had little of it in photo-finishes in his past two forays to town for the races restricted to country horses. Don’t Give A Damn, the $2.25 TAB favourite for… Read More »
Trainer Desleigh Forster can see no reason why veteran Someday can’t continue his remarkable comeback and make it back-to-back wins when he races at Ipswich. Someday has made solid progress in his comeback from injury and feet problems and won his first race in nearly four years at Doomben two… Read More »
Formality will be one of two fillies trying to become the first of her sex to win the Golden Rose and Lindsay Park co-trainer Ben Hayes expects her to be in the finish. The filly and Merchant Navy are the two Victorian-trained runners in the $1 million race while Shogun… Read More »
Brian Kruger has been appointed the new chairman of Racing Victoria with acting chairman Mike Hirst to become his deputy. Victoria’s racing minister Martin Pakula announced the eight members of the reconstituted board on Friday following amendments to the RV constitution. Three of the current board members selected by Pakula… Read More »
The lure of a big pay day has promising filly Bimini Road stepping up to Saturday class for the first time at Ipswich. Bimini Road has been a good performer at the midweek meetings but takes on a much better class of fillies in the Three-Year-Old Handicap (1200m). The race… Read More »
Leading Epsom Handicap contender Egg Tart will have a race day gallop at Rosehill ahead of her next Group One assignment. Egg Tart was listed to run in a barrier trial at Warwick Farm on Friday but trainer Chris Waller elected to wait a day to give her a gallop… Read More »
A man who gatecrashed Sizing John’s Cheltenham Gold Cup celebrations is set to be banned from all tracks owned by Arena Racing Company after appearing in the winner’s enclosure at Yarmouth. Richard Melia, who was spotted next to Frankel on Champions Day in 2012, was present in the Yarmouth paddock… Read More »
Queensland stewards have confirmed Matt McGillivray will ride as fully fledged jockey at Ipswich despite being booked by trainers thinking he could still claim 1.5kg as an apprentice. Chief steward Alan Reardon said McGillivray had always been listed to come out of his time on September 22 (Friday). “He completed… Read More »
A quadruple dead-heat in a Caulfield Cup qualifier would be a perfect result for Lindsay Park. The winner of Saturday’s Group Three MRC Foundation Cup earns exemption from the ballot for next month’s Caulfield Cup. Lindsay Park saddles Boom Time, 53rd in order of entry, Harlem (62nd), Harlow Gold (63rd)… Read More »
Gerald Ryan is open to Menari occupying a slot for The Everest though he concedes the $10 million sprint could be beyond the talented colt. “I’m not a big rap on three-year-olds at this time of year against older horses but looking at him, he’s a big strong horse, he’s… Read More »
Alward, a former favourite for The Metropolitan will need a compelling victory at Rosehill to convince trainer Chris Waller he should run in the Group One race. Waller thought the gelding might be a lightweight chance for The Metropolitan after winning over 2000m at Rosehill last month. But the Irish-bred… Read More »
Chris Waller has lowered his sights with Dawn Wall after admitting she was stretched beyond her capabilities during her maiden preparation. The Fastnet Rock mare won four of her first seven starts but a Group One debut in the Queensland Oaks in June produced a ninth placing behind stablemate Egg… Read More »
