A big Hawkesbury meeting this afternoon, highlighted by the running of the $150,000 Ladies Day Cup over 1600m, throws up four things of massive interest for the real racing fan. Firstly, can LOOKS LIKE ELVIS (All America-Savalook) impress the sox off the ladies and claim the Ladies Day Cup? It’s… Read More »
The US and Australian-based stud, Spendthrift Farm, has just forked out a whopping Aust$13million to buy the 5YO mare MONOMOY GIRL (Tapizar-Drmette). It was a stunning result for the connections who watched her win over Aus$6million in prizemoney after purchasing her for just Aus$137,000 as a yearling only four years… Read More »
All the indications were there so people just followed the money. HUNNAM (Shalaa-Skating On Ice) an unraced 2YO in the Team Hawkes yard, opened on Thursday night at $15. But money came for him, a lot of it, and by Saturday morning he was into $7.40. By race time, he… Read More »
Two weeks ago Racing Victoria Stewards fined Glen Boss for his standing in the irons as they crossed the line when he won the Gr 1 Cox Plate on Sir Dragonet. Boss defiantly defended his actions that day saying the sport needed something like this at this time in history,… Read More »
It seems rather appropriate…in hindsight of course, that two visitors from the British isles fought out the Gr 2 Queen Elizabeth Stakes over 2600m at Flemington. They being the sensationally backed Irish pair PONDUS (Sea The Moon-Diablerette) and TRUE SELF (Oscar-Good Thought). The mare, True Self, won the race by… Read More »
AIR TO AIR…omg! Top tipster Ron Dufficy said, “half of it is her own doing because she is raw and green and all over the place.” He tipped her and backed her but for everyone else on AIR TO AIR the run at Rosehill on Saturday was a bitter pill… Read More »
Top trainer Michael Moroney said before the race he believed his lightly raced 3YO SHELBY COBRA (Toronado-Segenhoe Valley) was pretty smart. And when he came home down the centre of the Flemington straight racing past TOMMY GOLD (Sacred Falls-Gold Rocks) and the weakening DEEP SPEED (Deep Field-Fast N Witty) ,… Read More »
Despite two outstanding rides for wins at Flemington on Oaks day, and a superb ride on Montefilia to grab 3rd in the Gr 1 Oaks, champion jockey Hugh Bowman has once again fallen foul of the Victorian stewards. And it was one of his winning rides that caused them to… Read More »
Oh, sometimes in life you just notice funny things on race day. The $1million Kennedy Oaks over 2500m at Gr 1 level, delivered a magnificent result for co-trainers Tom Dabernig and Ben Hayes, as it did for Coolmore who purchased the winner PERSONAL (Fastnet Rock-Personify) in partnership for $650,000 as… Read More »
Flouting the whip rule to try and win a multi-million dollar race is nothing new … but, by any standards, Kerrin McEvoy’s use of the whip on the runner-up Tiger Moth in Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup arguably did both the rider and the industry a disservice. Make no mistake, McEvoy is… Read More »
After winning on debut then drawing a good fate in the $1million Golden Gift, it looked like TIGER OF MALAY had a huge chance. But he will not be running. Team Freedman has sadly had to scratch him after he pulled up sore in the hindquarters this morning after track… Read More »
With the great Jamie Kah leading the way finishing like a train yesterday onboard PRINCE OF ARRAN (Shiraco-Storming Sioux) when 3rd in the Melbourne Cup, female hoops are on the rise. And no better example of that will probably ever be seen than at Port Lincoln today. The girls can… Read More »
With 200m left to travel in the Gr 1 Melbourne Cup on Tuesday, two former jockeys, the Cathy and Jess Payne jumped from their respective couches and started cheering. Cathy Payne, wife of Kerrin McEvoy saw her man on TIGER MOTH (Galilee-Lesson In Humility) get that horse going and he… Read More »
We all know the exploits of the great Irishman Aidan O’Brien. Not only is he seemingly without peer as a trainer of race horses, he has raised a family of champion thoroughbred people too. His son, Joseph, as we know just won the Melbourne Cup for the second time. But… Read More »
The hard track will be blamed, but the animal activists will be furious. The great Gr 1 English Derby winner, Anthony Van Dyck (Galileo-Believe’N’Succeed) was in trouble 800m from home when rider Hugh Bowman was urging him along to just keep up. He clearly was not comfortable on the super… Read More »
Team Freedman, the Melbourne based version of the family trainers, produced a 3YO to win on Cup day that looks an ideal Gr 1 Caulfield Cup hope for next year. His name is AIN’TNODEELDUN (Dundeel-Ain’tnofallenstar) and the big chunky, immature 3YO just outsprinted and ultimately outstayed his rivals to win… Read More »
There will have to be questions asked and answered after race two at Flemington on Cup day. JOVIALITY (I Am Invincible-Limbo Down) the easing favourite in the Listed Desirable Stakes over 1400m was given absolutely no chance of winning the race from the home turn onwards. James McDonald, who drew… Read More »
A master stroke by young training duo, Tom Dabernig and Ben Hayes, paid dividends when their colt FINANCE TYCOON (Written Tycoon-Darook Park) led all the way to win the Gr 3 Maribyrnong Plate over 1000m. Market đź’°: View the Odds for the Melbourne Cup Melbourne Cup TIPS đź“ť: View our… Read More »
At Ipswich this afternoon old Mark Goodwin saddled his first runner as a trainer in nearly five years. And it saluted paying $43.95. Named INSIDE INFORMATION (Mahisara-Chinese Wall) it seems none of us had that, but the happy trainer backed him. “I had a little bit on,” he smiled. Goodwin… Read More »
If a crack appears in a damn wall and it’s not fixed, it grows and grows until it bursts open and the water inside comes cascading out at full pelt. That appears to be what’s happening to leading US trainer Bob Baffert following yet another positive test from one of… Read More »
