Mick Kent will wait until after the Bletchingly Stakes before deciding on Group One targets for Supido while the trainer has Caulfield Cup aspirations for another of his stable stars. Supido resumed from a spell with a comfortable win in Saturday’s Group Three Sir John Monash Stakes at Caulfield and… Read More »
Plans to run Sheiswhatsheis in the Townsville Cup have been shelved and the talented mare will try to win a stakes race at Doomben instead. Sheiswhatsheis has won six races and more than $311,000 as well as being placed three times in stakes races. Trainer Tony Gollan would dearly love… Read More »
A treble at Toowoomba has pushed trainer Ben Currie past 100 Queensland winners for the first time in his career. Currie led in Bella Occhi, Mishani Seeka and Real Mystique at Sunday’s meeting to reach 100-1/2 winners in Queensland for the season. He now leads the state title by 4-1/2… Read More »
Caravaggio is still in the frame for a trip to Australia for The Everest despite losing his unbeaten record in the July Cup. Trainer Aidan O’Brien said the colt could be seen next in the Prix Maurice de Gheest at Deauville over six and a half furlongs (1300m) on August… Read More »
Brisbane trainer Kelly Schweida will look for races to boost Shogun Sun’s prize money in an attempt to get him qualified for the Golden Rose in Sydney. Shogun Sun resumed over 1200 metres at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday, coming from the tail of the field to finish second to… Read More »
Long-time Warwick Farm resident Clarry Conners has hit out about work being carried out on Canterbury saying his home track is being neglected by the Australian Turf Club. The ATC has begun work on a synthetic track at Canterbury, hoping to have it finished in time for it to be… Read More »
The Lindsay Park team will look to split their star fillies early in their three-year-old spring campaigns with options in both Melbourne and Sydney. Group One Blue Diamond Stakes winner Catchy, Golden Slipper placegetter Tulip and Group winner Formality will ramp up their preparations for a likely August return, with… Read More »
Brad Pengelly is the latest Australian jockey set to take up a contract to ride in Mauritius for four months. Steven Arnold has spent the winter there and Pengelly will head to the island nation for four months as soon as the paperwork is completed. Pengelly is one of the… Read More »
Enable has stamped her class on the Irish Oaks, adding the Classic at the Curragh to her win at Epsom. Trained by John Gosden for Khalid Abdullah, Enable put 5-1/2 lengths on the Aidan O’Brien-trained Rain Goddess to give flamboyant jockey Frankie Dettori a welcome Group One win after a… Read More »
The future of Eagle Farm racecourse should be clearer this week with at least an interim report on the condition of the track expected to be ready. Victorian racing administrator Dale Monteith has been conducting an independent review of the Eagle Farm track which was closed indefinitely in late May…. Read More »
New Zealand stakes winner Qiji Phoenix will join the Chris Waller stable to be prepared for the Caulfield Guineas. The two-year-old was unbeaten in three starts as a two-year-old in New Zealand for Donna Logan and Chris Gibbs but was unplaced on an unsuitable track in the Group Two BRC… Read More »
Caravaggio has lost his unbeaten tag and put a question mark on a trip to Australia for The Everest with his fourth behind fellow three-year-old Harry Angel in the July Cup at Newmarket. The Clive Cox-trained Godolphin-owned Caravaggio finished second to Coolmore’s Caravaggio in the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot… Read More »
Dwayne Dunn will miss the rest of the season after being suspended for 18 meetings over an incident at Caulfield that caused interference for several other runners. Dunn pleaded guilty to a charge of careless riding on Saturday over his handling of winner Windbern while passing the 200m mark in… Read More »
On a day when leading Sydney jockey Hugh Bowman failed to get a win at Rosehill, the unassuming Adam Hyeronimus further made his claim for more work in the big smoke. His ride on roughie Hunter Jack in the last race on Saturday completed the 27-year-old’s first city treble and… Read More »
Supdio has shown his class in his return to racing to land an important Group race win in the Sir John Monash Stakes at Caulfield. The Mick Kent-trained sprinter has been placed at Group One and Group Two level but a stakes win had eluded him until Saturday’s Group Three… Read More »
Apprentice Beau Mertens has kept his nose in front in the Melbourne jockeys’ premiership after maintaining a perfect record aboard the Ciaron Maher-trained Schism. Mertens has only be aboard Schism in four of her 16 starts but remains unbeaten on the mare after guiding her to an all-the-way win in… Read More »
Retirement may have to wait for Slightly Sweet, which has brought back memories of her three-year-old season with victory in the Listed Winter Stakes at Rosehill. Now a five-year-old, the mare trained by Jason Coyle for the Esplin family has been slated for the broodmare barn in the spring. While… Read More »
Tough stayer Araldo Junior has overcome a horror road trip and a drying track to give trainer Michael Moroney his third win in the Listed Queensland Cup (3200m) on the Sunshine Coast. Araldo Junior ($10) gave jockey Michael Cahill his fourth stakes win and his second Cup of the winter… Read More »
Collateral has returned to winning form after a blip at Warwick Farm to maintain an excellent strike rate during his first preparation for trainer Bjorn Baker. An unexpected fourth over 2400m last weekend proved an aberration as the gelding flew home at Rosehill on Saturday, claiming another benchmark handicap after… Read More »
Washington Heights has made a triumphant return to racing at Rosehill more than a year after firm tracks in Hong Kong curtailed his Asian ambitions. The five-year-old gelding finished with a flourish to claim a benchmark handicap (1200m) on Saturday and cap a remarkable comeback from joint issues. Veteran trainer… Read More »
