A strong race day gallop has primed Charnley River to shed his title as the best maiden in Queensland. Charnley River is by Show A Heart out of Wabble making him a full brother to Group One winner Woorim and he has shown glimpses he can measure up to the… Read More »
Legless Veuve is following the same path towards the 2017 Australian Guineas as the most recent filly to win the Group One race and will be out to stamp her credentials at Flemington. The Stuart Webb-trained Legless Veuve beat the males first-up in the Manfred Stakes at Caulfield, emulating Mosheen… Read More »
Tony McEvoy is looking at the autumn campaigns of two of his three-year-olds to see where their long term futures may lie. Hey Doc and Silvera meet in the C S Hayes Stakes at Flemington on Saturday after which the pair head on different paths. McEvoy is looking forward to… Read More »
It’s taken longer than expected to get Single Gaze back to the races following a mishap in the Australian Oaks but her trainer Nick Olive believes it has been worth the wait. Single Gaze will make her return as topweight in Saturday’s Group Two Millie Fox Stakes (1300m) at Rosehill…. Read More »
Faatinah and Missrock will try to join a select group of sprinters to emulate their sires by winning the Group One Lightning Stakes at Flemington. Four-year-old Faatinah is a son of 2010 winner Nicconi while Missrock is striving to become the first three-year-old since her sire Fastnet Rock in 2005… Read More »
Unbeaten Gold Coast filly All Over Bosanova is ready to continue her trainer Mel Eggleston’s top strike rate when she races at Eagle Farm. Eggleston has a relatively small team but has had six individual winners since the start of January. Unbeaten in three starts, All Over Bosanova makes her… Read More »
A Blue Diamond start remains a possibility for Something Violet but the filly will need to blow her rivals away in a stakes race at Flemington. Something Violet runs in the Talindert Stakes (1100m) on Saturday and trainer Robbie Griffiths says the filly will need to win convincingly to warrant… Read More »
Sky Kingdom will need to win by a good margin at Eagle Farm if he is to stay on course for the Group One Australian Cup. A stakes winner in Europe, Sky Kingdom had his first Australian start when ninth behind Sir Moments in the Listed Sunshine Coast Cup on… Read More »
Injured Godolphin jockey James Doyle is upbeat he will be back riding in three weeks after a positive medical report. Doyle broke a bone in his hand in a fall from Pearls at Randwick on Monday and the initial assessment was at least a month out of the saddle. But… Read More »
Leading Sydney jockey Hugh Bowman will be able to keep his appointment with Winx in the Chipping Norton Stakes despite a suspension. After his second breach in the space of a month of a racing rule which requires jockeys to ride their mounts right out to the finishing line, Bowman… Read More »
Co-trainer Lee Freedman says when Battlecamp finally learns how to race properly there will be a Group race win come his way. Battlecamp collected his second win from 11 career starts in the Mitavite Challenge (1600m) at Sandown on Wednesday. After a successful debut at Bendigo in October 2015, Freedman… Read More »
A son of a Melbourne Cup and Cox Plate-winning jockey is among the latest intake of apprentices to Racing Victoria’s Apprentice Jockey Training Program. Five apprentices were inducted into the four-year program on Wednesday with the training involving race riding, performance analysis, sports science and sports medicine, as well as… Read More »
A month after a Magic Millions experience that would put most two-year-olds in a spelling paddock, Invader has found winning form. But whether the colt is around for much longer remains to be seen despite a win built on determination in the Chris Toogood Handicap at Randwick on Wednesday. “It’s… Read More »
Former Sydney mare Doubt She’s A lady has lived up to a recent unofficial trial to cause an upset at Doomben. Doubt She’s A Lady ($41) also continued jockey Ron Stewart’s run of long-shot wins when she came from well back in the field to take out Wednesday’s Class Three… Read More »
Stand-in jockey Christian Reith has blamed racing circumstances for the odds-on defeat of Godolphin’s blue blood filly Alizee at Randwick. Earmarked as a potential Golden Slipper 2017 horse, Astern’s half-sister missed a place in the ATC Staff Recognition Day Handicap. But while it will be small consolation for those took the… Read More »
Lindsay Park has continued its success with its crop of two-year-olds this season with another winner at Sandown. The victory of Justice Glory in the Comcater Plate on Wednesday was the stable’s 11th individual winner of 18 juvenile races this season. Ridden by Mark Zahra, Justice Glory ($5.50) scored a… Read More »
Canberra trainer Matt Dale has decided to bypass the Lightning Stakes with stable star Fell Swoop in preference for a return in the Group One Oakleigh Plate. Fell Swoop was not among the 13 acceptors for Saturday’s Lightning Stakes (1000m) at Flemington with Dale deciding the Oakleigh Plate a week… Read More »
Co-trainer Paul Snowden insists there is just as much at stake for Breeders’ Plate winner Khan as there will be for She Will Reign when the high-profile Golden Slipper candidates clash for the first time. Just as she does in pre-post betting on the Golden Slipper, She Will Reign holds… Read More »
After two midweek city wins, a fit and in-form Extra Olives will get her chance to chase valuable black type in The Vanity at Flemington. Extra Olives, by champion sire Redoute’s Choice out of Line Honours, fetched $500,000 as a yearling. Line Honours is a daughter of champion race filly… Read More »
Geoff Goold has continued his impressive recent strike-rate in metropolitan races aboard two-year-old Starena at Doomben. Goold made it five metropolitan wins from his past 12 rides when Starena ($4.20) grabbed the leader Not So Wild ($15) on the line in Wednesday’s QTIS Two-Year-Old Plate (1200m). Starena gave trainer Mark… Read More »
