The plan crystallised for Elle Lou in the mud on Randwick Guineas Day, though the mare’s future is not as clear. Once the five-year-old finished ninth in January’s Magic Millions fillies and mares race on the Gold Coast, trainer Chris Waller figured the Group Three $150,000 Aspiration Quality Handicap (1600m)… Read More »
Trainer Natalie McCall believes she will have to push on with Colour Charge to the Brisbane winter carnival after the gelding’s first stakes win on Saturday. Colour Charge ($13) made it two wins from his past three starts when he beat favourite Beatniks ($3.40) by 1 3/4 lengths in the… Read More »
Raw colt Inference has given the Hawkes training team some Group One consolation in the Randwick Guineas after stable veteran Chautauqua’s narrow defeat in the Canterbury Stakes. With his win in Saturday’s 1600m-feature on a wet Randwick track, Inference earned a part of history as the first Australian Group One… Read More »
A defence of the Group Two Blamey Stakes is next on the agenda for He Or She after the gelding made a winning return to racing at Flemington. He Or She was heavily-backed from $4.80 into $3.90 favourite with Luxbet.com in Saturday’s Group Three TAB Rewards Stakes (1400m) and the… Read More »
Hey Doc has justified his favouritism with a convincing victory in the Group One Australian Guineas at Flemington. The Tony McEvoy-trained gelding settled just behind the lead in Saturday’s 1600m race for three-year-olds before jockey Luke Currie sent the $3.40 favourite with Williamhill.com.au through a gap on the inside early in… Read More »
English has put an indifferent spring campaign behind her to defend the Group Two Challenge Stakes at Randwick ahead of bigger autumn targets. Despite her winless form last time in, punters kept faith with the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained mare who started the $4.20 favourite with Unibet.com.au in Saturday’s… Read More »
A year after Le Romain won the $1-million Randwick Guineas, he wound back the clock to pip the world’s best sprinter and clinch the third Group One of his career. In a rousing finale to the $500,000 Canterbury Stakes (1300m) on Saturday, the four-year-old gelding dipped on the post to… Read More »
Inference has come from last to win the $1-million Group One Randwick Guineas to give jockey Tommy Berry an early treble on the card. The So You Think colt proved too strong for second-placed Invincible Gem as Berry clung to the outside rail. The Chris Waller-trained favourite Comin’ Through, ridden… Read More »
Trainer Darren Weir has a happy knack of finding suitable black type races for the fillies and mares in his stable. His latest winner in a stakes races has come via Turbo Miss in the Group Three Frances Tressady Stakes at Flemington on Saturday. Ridden by Craig Williams, Turbo Miss… Read More »
Despite her first defeat, She Will Reign retains Golden Slipper favouritism but is being challenged by former market leader Houtzen. Frolic beat She Will Reign in Saturday’s Reisling Stakes in wet conditions at Randwick with the runner-up easing from $2.80 to $3.60 with Sportsbet.com.au for the $3.5-million Golden Slipper at… Read More »
Two-year-old filly Ploverset has upstaged her more fancied stablemate Madeenaty at Flemington to score a Listed race win on debut. Ploverset was sent out at $21 with Unibet.com.au for her debut in Saturday’s Listed 3AW Is Football Stakes (1000m) at Flemington, but finished over the top of $1.45 favourite Madeenaty… Read More »
Trainer Toby Edmonds and jockey Jeff Lloyd are full of confidence they can win their first Group One Golden Slipper after Houzten scored an easy win at Eagle Farm. On a day when two of her main Slipper rivals, She Will Reign and Madeenaty, were beaten, Houtzen gave nothing else… Read More »
Tommy Berry has extracted the best from Rocket Commander on a heavy Randwick track to claim a narrow Group Three win in the Wenona Girl Quality. While he was naturally thrilled with the win, Berry’s immediate thoughts after Saturday’s race for mares was for the racing community in Canberra where… Read More »
Snitzel filly Samantha continued to build towards the PJ Bell Stakes on the opening day of The Championships with an impressive victory in the Fireball Stakes at Randwick. The three-year-old, who was spooked by her race debut at Hawkesbury last July, was comfortable throughout the 1100m trudge on a wet… Read More »
Le Romain has beaten Chautauqua in a dramatic finish to win the $500,000 Group 1 Canterbury Stakes at a wet Randwick. The Kris Lees-trained four-year-old gelding was taken to the outside by Glyn Schofield before edging out Chautauqua in a photo finish. The John O’Shea trained Hauraki finished third.
A Sydney trip is still on the cards for Heatherly after she coasted to an easy win in a stakes race at Flemington. Heatherly was untouched as a $1.80 favourite with Luxbet.com in the Bob Hoysted Handicap (1000m) on Saturday after being scratched from the Challenge Stakes on a heavy… Read More »
Gunnison has announced himself as a potential Golden Slipper contender much to the surprise of his co-trainer Peter Snowden. The least favoured Todman Stakes runner from the Peter and Paul Snowden stable at Randwick on Saturday, Gunnison ($8) held off his stablemate Invader ($4.40) by a short head in testing… Read More »
After a belated start to her autumn preparation, three-year-old Missrock has raced to a narrow first-up win at Flemington. The Robbie Laing-trained Missrock had been scratched from the Group One Lightning Stakes and Group One Oakleigh Plate the past two Saturdays because of separate setbacks. The filly instead made her… Read More »
Trainer Ben Hull admits he hadn’t even bothered to have a cent on his tough mare Bronte Babe before she scored at $101 at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Bronte Babe scored the upset of the season when she beat Three Points ($4) by a head with a long head to… Read More »
Tommy Berry masterminded the end of Golden Slipper favourite She Will Reign’s unbeaten record by guiding Frolic into the $3.5-million spectacle for two-year-old’s at Rosehill on March 18. Berry carried out a tactical masterclass and showed his rival hoops the best way forward during a sodden Randwick Guineas Day as… Read More »
