A decision to dodge Sydney’s weight-for-age stars with top three-year-old filly Global Glamour has been vindicated. Global Glamour was among the acceptances to take on Winx in the Apollo Stakes before co-trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott opted to contest the Light Fingers Stakes (1200m). But for the dual Group… Read More »
Champion Winx has made a triumphant return to racing with a dominant win over Hartnell in the Group Two Apollo Stakes at Randwick. Her winning streak is now 14, the equal of Phar Lap’s longest string of success. WINX STATS * 5yo bay mare by Street Cry out of Vegas… Read More »
There are few horses in Gary Portelli’s stable who can match it for speed with She Will Reign so the trainer has called on stakes-winning sprinter Straturbo to test her in a gallop leading into the 2017 Silver Slipper Stakes. The filly is the Golden Slipper favourite but has to… Read More »
Kris Lees’ better judgment tells him Invincible Gem should be looking for a paddock and a decent rest. Instead, the three-year-old filly continues to be one of the surprise packets in his stable and one of the most improved three-year-old fillies in Sydney racing. And now she has some black… Read More »
Le Romain is on target for a mid-carnival clash with champion mare Winx after a first-up win at Randwick. A two-time Group One winner, Le Romain scrambled home to beat Big Money by a short head in the Southern Cross Stakes on Monday. It was a diminishing margin although the… Read More »
Michael Freedman has struck for the second time in as many weeks in an important two-year-old race, training Frolic to win the Inglis Classic at Randwick. A year after returning to Australia from Singapore to train firstly at Rosehill and now Randwick, Freedman is on the march with Teaspoon’s recent… Read More »
Trainer Darryl Roberts has had to wait an extra two days wait to land his first metropolitan winner but it has been worth it. The Maitland-based Roberts saddled Bills A Goodie in Monday’s TAB Highway Handicap for country-trained horses with the gelding leading throughout over the 1800 metres. The Randwick… Read More »
Trainer Mick Kent is renowned for his patience with horses and Supido is a case in point. Kent bypassed the spring carnival after the sprinter felt the effects of a scintillating victory at Flemington last May before running third in The Goodwood in Adelaide two weeks later. A sparkling trial… Read More »
Craig Williams has settled on the Lindsay Park-trained Catchy as his mount in the Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield. In the end it was Catchy’s unbeaten status and how she reminds the jockey of former Golden Slipper and VRC Oaks winner Miss Finland that won out. Williams delayed his decision… Read More »
Chautauqua’s owner Rupert Legh has flagged a possible clash with Winx in the George Ryder Stakes at Rosehill saying the sprinter has lost his dash. The gelding finished third in Saturday’s Rubiton Stakes at Caulfield over 1100 metres with Legh telling RSN927 on Monday he and trainer John Hawkes had… Read More »
Veteran jockey Jeff Lloyd has the Brisbane and Queensland riding records firmly in his sights little more than halfway through the season. He is leading the Australian jockeys’ premiership with 113 winners, the Queensland title with 112 winners and the Brisbane metropolitan race with 89. It seems only a matter… Read More »
Punters won’t hear of Winx being beaten as she makes her delayed return in cooler and more low-key circumstances than originally planned. Sydney’s oppressive hot weather forced racing officials to abandon a bumper day on Saturday and move the meeting to Monday when the maximum is expected to be in… Read More »
A race at Flemington David Hayes would dearly love to win is the first-up target for dual Group One-placed colt Seaburge. Seaburge resumes in Saturday’s Group Three CS Hayes Stakes (1400m) which is named in honour of the late trainer Colin Hayes. Colin Hayes was the father of David Hayes… Read More »
Geoff Goold’s form on the Kelly Doughty-trained Arki has put him in line to ride stablemate Benfica Princess in an Oaks campaign. Goold has ridden comeback galloper Arki in four of his five straight wins and turned in another perfect performance to win the Open Hcp (2030m) at Doomben on… Read More »
This time last year jockey Damien Oliver had to choose between Extreme Choice and Flying Artie in the Blue Diamond Stakes. Oliver went the way of Flying Artie who finished second to Extreme Chioce in the Blue Diamond. But Flying Artie has proven himself a high-class colt since and justified… Read More »
Sydney’s heat could provide an unexpected bonus for Gold Coast youngster Junction as he tackles the $250,000 Inglis Classic at Randwick. The Bryan and Daniel Guy-trained Junction, who is one of only two winners in the Classic, did not arrive in Sydney until Friday. The Guys were met with stifling… Read More »
Craig Williams’ Blue Diamond choices are down to three after Lindsay Park confirmed riders for two Coolmore-owned horses. Wlliams will announce on Monday whether he rides Lindsay Park’s Catchy, the Ciaron Maher-trained Jukebox or Property from the Robert Smerdon stable in the Group One Blue Diamond Stakes feature at Caulfield… Read More »
The death of renowned jockey Walter Swinburn has been ruled accidental by a London coroner. The 55-year-old suffered a fatal head injury after falling approximately 12 feet from his bathroom window in Belgravia, central London, on December 12 last year. An inquest at Westminster Coroner’s Court heard that although Swinburn… Read More »
Queensland stewards have continued their crackdown on jockeys engaging in early speed battles by suspending two apprentices for a month for rides at the Gold Coast. Jedidiah Hodge rode She Goes Pop and Corey Bayliss was on Waltz In Flight when the pair shared the lead in a race at… Read More »
Mornington trainer Michael Mehegan has landed a stakes winner with his first runner in a black-type race. Prussian Vixen led throughout in the Group Three Bellmaine Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield on Saturday to give the former horse breaker his biggest success. Ridden by Jake Noonan, Prussian Vixen ($12) held on… Read More »
