It is International Woman’s day, but down in Adelaide it might have a sub-title of Jamie Kah Day as the gun rider made it three wins from the first four races when guiding Night Raid to an impressive victory in the Listed Matrice Stakes. Up on the speed from the… Read More »
Trainer Robert Heathcote has confirmed he will be going to QCAT in an attempt to reverse the guilty finding handed to him on a misconduct charge. The charge arose from a post-race exchange between Heathcote and jockey Mark Du Plessis after the Heathcote runner Stuttering had been beaten in a… Read More »
The Mark Kavanagh trained Seradess kicked off Adelaide Cup day with a storming victory in the opening race on the card … the Listed Cinderella Stakes for two-year-old fillies. The daughter of Astern had won on debut at Bendigo at a starting price of $51 (dead-heating with Cloudy) and followed… Read More »
The Stifmeister’s run on debut suggested that it wouldn’t be long before he claimed a place in the winners’ enclosure and he made good on that promise when he scored a last stride win in the QTIS Two-Year-Old Handicap at Eagle Farm in only his second career start. The promising… Read More »
They don’t come much gamer than Romakash. The six-year-old forty-four start veteran, a $5 chance, made it back-to-back wins when he took out the Benchmark 90 Handicap over 2406m at Eagle Farm after a stride for stride battle with Humbolt Current ($2.90) over the entire length of the home straight…. Read More »
The Richard and Michael Freedman stable sent Dinado north from their Sydney base to tackle a Class 6 Plate at Eagle Farm and the four-year-old mare came away with her third career victory. The result might not have been surprising to many, but the starting price certainly was with Dinado… Read More »
The Magic Millions Two-Year-Old Classic runner-up Alpine Edge returns to action at Randwick on Saturday where the talented, Toby and Trent Edmonds trained colt will take on a host of lively Golden Slipper contenders in the Group 2 Todman Stakes. There is no shirking of the task here for Alpine… Read More »
Juddmonte Farms have confirmed that a scan has revealed that the brilliant champion mare Enable is ‘in foal’ to Kingman. Enable won fifteen out of nineteen race starts, including 11-Group 1 wins, two of which came in the prestigious Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (G1). Such was the glow that… Read More »
There were a couple of notable winners at Grafton on Tuesday where the four-year-old mare Justitia kicked off the meeting by claiming her third successive win. Those victories by the Kris Lees trained daughter of Husson have come at three different tracks over three different distances, underlining both the progressive… Read More »
You could say the horse that practically no-one wanted in the betting for the Group 1 Australian Guineas is used to being overlooked. Lunar Fox had them rewriting the record books after Saturday’s big race win as the Paul Preusker trained runner became the longest priced Group 1 winner in… Read More »
Quality performer Bivouac produced a solid gallop in-between races at Kemble Grange, signalling it was all systems go for the son of Exceed and Excel for his assignment on Saturday … in where-ever race that might be. Trainer James Cummings would not be drawn on any final decision as to… Read More »
The Racing NSW Newhaven Park Country Championships continues to achieve its goal of promoting country racing. In the process it provides an acknowledgement of the value of its country participants to the industry as well as offering those very participants a big financial carrot and an all-around highly enjoyable and… Read More »
The Archie Alexander stable completed a double at Flemington when Chaillot got the better of Need New Friends in a driving finish to put a Group 3 win behind her name. Chaillot now has four wins from only seven starts. “In the Matriarch, we didn’t see the best of her… Read More »
The John Maloney trained Scorched Earth took no prisoners in the Magic Millions (SA) Two-Year-Old Classic at Murray Bridge. Pushed into an early lead by Jessica Eton, the daughter of Nicconi took the field along at a comfortable gallop to the turn. Eton then still bided her time momentarily but,… Read More »
Boilovers don’t come much bigger than this! Lunar Fox silenced pundits and punters alike when the colt claimed the Group 1 Kennedy Australian Guineas at a starting price of $300. Lunar Fox was second-up here and had done little to catch the eye when resuming finishing 13.20 lengths behind Tagaloa… Read More »
The Group 2 Darley Blamey Stakes proved to be the gateway to the All-Star Mile for the Chris Waller trained Star Of the Seas with the winner now gaining entry into the big race. As such, it was a very important victory for the well performed, six-year-old chestnut who gathered… Read More »
The Jewel Prelude for two-year-old fillies at the Sunshine Coast was taken out in stunning fashion by Kevin Hansen trained Sweet Dolly, who kept her unbeaten record intact when winning by an emphatic 4.75 length margin. Sweet Dolly had two runs under her belt going into this important lead-up race… Read More »
It has been a while between drinks but Morvada landed an overdue win when he took out the Group 3 Shaftesbury Avenue Handicap at Flemington. The Peter Jolly trained seven-year-old had never finished further back than fourth place in his last six races leading into this assignment and it was… Read More »
The Archie Alexander trained Mosh Music produced a race winning finish in the Listed Roy Higgins Quality at Flemington. In the process the lightly raced, six-year-old daughter of Moshe took her career record to nine wins from only seventeen starts. Mark Zahra, back from suspension, did the honours in the… Read More »
The figures are impressive and the envy of every other state … and, quite rightly, it is the rollout of the value of the increased prize-money levels announced by Racing New South Wales … and exactly where the additional benefits have been placed and to whose advantage … that has… Read More »
