Trainer Doug Harrison stumbled on a new program that has worked wonders for rising 10-year-old Alrouz. A fresh-is-best approach has enabled the Cranbourne-trained gelding to win two of his past three starts. On Wednesday, Alrouz lines up in the Le Pine Funerals Handicap at Sandown while his younger sister Redrouz… Read More »
Trainer Freddy Head is looking to Terrakova to do something her mother could not in the Prix de Diane at Chantilly. The filly is one of the best-bred horses in training being by champion sire Galileo and out of Head’s great race mare Goldikova, a three-time winner at the Breeders’… Read More »
Trainer Nick Harnett believes he has a handy sprinter on his hands after Wilde Gem overcame an awkward start to remain unbeaten in his metropolitan debut at Mornington. Wilde Gem won a Pakenham synthetic track maiden by almost four lengths last month on debut before being sent out the $3.70… Read More »
Sebrarian has finally justified Gai Waterhouse’s’ faith, after some of his owners had all but given up hope. The three-year-old understandably started his second preparation as a $31 chance in a 1400m maiden at Warwick Farm. So when he held off the late challenge by $1.40 favourite Tivoli Street by… Read More »
After storming home to register a special win at his 100th start, veteran Extra Zero will be out to add another successful chapter to his racing story at Moonee Valley. The 10-year-old charged home at Flemington on May 20 to win a 2000m handicap by three-quarters of a length. It… Read More »
Regally bred Counterattack heads to stud this week without a much desired Group One win but with a reputation as one of the most consistent stakes performers of recent times. In what sums up his career, Counterattack had no luck when fourth in the Group One Stradbroke Handicap at Doomben… Read More »
Adrian Bott has no qualms about asking Supply And Demand to step up in trip yet again this campaign as the adaptable gelding targets the Kensei Handicap at Rosehill. The four-year-old has never raced over 2000 metres but as Bott, who trains in partnership with Gai Waterhouse, pointed out, Supply… Read More »
After a narrow defeat in the opening race at Mornington, Jake Bayliss has made his next opportunity for the Lindsay Park team count with victory on Bay Harmony. Bayliss has recently transferred to the Lindsay Park stable for the final weeks of his apprenticeship and said trainer David Hayes had… Read More »
Wild Heart has shown clinical control at Warwick Farm as the Hawkes Racing-trained gelding recorded his maiden victory with comparative ease in heavy going. The two-year-old got off the mark on Monday when he held off the Peter Ronl-trained Curdled by a long neck on the 2YO Maiden (1200m). He… Read More »
Veteran sprinter Steel Zip is set to start his last winter carnival in the Listed Eye Liner Stakes at Ipswich. Steel Zip hasn’t run since mid-April with trainer Pat Duff deliberately avoiding the better sprinters over the carnival. Now a nine-year-old, Steel Zip has been a fixture in winter carnival… Read More »
Two-year-old Flypast has surprised Daniel Moor and created a good first impression on the jockey with a narrow debut win at Mornington. The David Brideoake-trained Flypast stepped out for his first start in the Clanbrooke Racing Plate (1000m) at Monday’s meeting which carried metropolitan status. He hit the line well… Read More »
Injured English jockey George Baker has made a racetrack appearance as a spectator at Goodwood for the first time since suffering a bleed on the brain in a fall on the ice at St Moritz. Baker, who won the St Leger last September on Harbour Law, was riding Boomerang Bob… Read More »
It may be more than three weeks since the Group One Goodwood in Adelaide but trainer Tony McEvoy is still coming to terms with Hey Doc’s defeat. The three-year-old finished sixth in the 1200m-sprint at Morphettville on May 20, 2-1/2 lengths from the winner Vega Magic. Hey Doc began from… Read More »
Far from the glamour NSW tracks of Randwick or Rosehill, Col Hodges has been bringing NSW bush racing to city punters for almost 50 years, a feat that has been recognised with the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM). A race caller and journalist since 1970, Hodges is the… Read More »
The road to the winner’s circle in the Belmont Stakes ran through the Kentucky Derby, even if the Derby and Preakness winners skipped the final leg of the Triple Crown. Tapwrit overtook the favoured Irish War Cry in the straight to win by two lengths on Saturday (Sunday AEST), giving… Read More »
Two horses returning from knee surgery will spearhead Lindsay Park’s assault on the metropolitan meeting at Mornington. The training team of David and Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig notched its 100th Victorian metropolitan winner for the season at Flemington on Saturday with Bullish Stock. The next milestone in sight for… Read More »
The weather will play a major part in the make-up of the field for the Listed Eye Liner Stakes at Ipswich. Several horses who failed to make the field for the $1.5million Stradbroke Handicap at Doomben on Saturday were expected to run a week later in the Eye Liner (1350m)…. Read More »
A holiday weekend Warwick Farm meeting would have been beneath Vaniloquio when he started his racing career in France. But his move to Australia has undeniably paid dividends after a fruitless experience in Hong Kong. The eight-year-old is enjoying a new lease on life at Clarry Conners’ Warwick Farm stable… Read More »
Brisbane trainer Brad Smith is hoping to quickly finalise a stewards’ inquiry after being stood down for failing to appear at an earlier hearing. Smith has not trained for the past two weeks after stewards suspended him for failing to attend an inquiry. The trainer had told stewards he was… Read More »
Tapwrit has overtaken favourite Irish War Cry in the straight to win the Belmont Stakes by two lengths giving trainer Todd Pletcher his third victory in the final leg of the Triple Crown. The colt finished sixth in the Kentucky Derby and skipped the Preakness emulating five of the past… Read More »
