It has been a while between drinks for the connections of Twin Perfection, but they are hoping to remedy that at Flemington. The Quality Handicap over 1100m on Saturday will be Twin Perfections third outing back from a break as he aims to end a 15-month winless streak. Twin Perfection made… Read More »
It’s been just over a year since young trainer Embroja-Lee Altieri experienced her best moment in racing and she’s desperate to relive those memories again. The location: Albany. The race: the inaugural Bluff Knoll. The horse: Gemma’s Son. When Gemma’s Son held out favourite Oscar’s Fortune to score an upset… Read More »
To borrow a phrase from the trainer and jockey, ‘he’s ready to explode’. They were the words from Will Bourne as he discussed Carl Speckler ahead of the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes over a mile at Royal Ascot on Tuesday night (Australian time). Bourne, who is trainer Ciaron Maher’s… Read More »
Kelly Schweida will be aiming to equal his record for black type wins in a Queensland carnival when Metalart lines up in the Listed Eye Liner Stakes (1350m) at Ipswich on Saturday. With three wins at black type level over the recent months, only his 2022 carnival with four winners has been… Read More »
Tony Gollan’s interest in this week’s Royal Ascot carnival increased overnight when the number of horses competing across the five days he will eventually train doubled. Queensland’s premier horseman teamed up with First Light Racing to buy three-year-old Belardo gelding Brindavan at the traditional Goffs London Sale, which is held… Read More »
And the wins keep on coming! There was a mini milestone of sorts in a year of plenty for jockey Lucy Fiore at Kalgoorlie on Sunday. She was forced to wait until the last race on the card, but got the job done on Feuding, capping another top week in the… Read More »
Recommendation and Mrs Chrissie have been staples of the Ciaron Maher sprint team for a number of seasons now, but both will make a rare appearance at Flemington this Saturday. The pair will have just their second start each at Australia’s most famous racecourse in the 1100-metre Quality Handicap. Mrs Chrissie hasn’t been… Read More »
Former champion junior rider Andrew Adkins has been making a splash in recent weeks and he is focused on building that momentum into the backend of the Sydney season. The hoop celebrated his second metropolitan double this month at Rosehill on Saturday with winning efforts aboard the John Thompson-trained Motoscafo in the… Read More »
Trainer Tom Dabernig is considering a start for Cleo Cat down the famous Flemington straight. An 1100m Quality Handicap at Flemington on Saturday, a heat of the Santa Ana Lane Sprint Series, could be used to ascertain whether Cleo Cat handles the sometimes-difficult straight course. Dabernig said if the mare… Read More »
Not a lot can come between Mark Zahra and Ibiza at this time of year but a ride at Royal Ascot will see him delay his holidays slightly and take part in one of racing’s biggest stages opn Tuesday. Zahra set off for England from Brisbane on Saturday night after riding… Read More »
Jockey Martin Harley will board a flight to England happy in the knowledge he is now a Group 1 winning jockey in Australia. Harley guided Cool Archie home in the J J Atkins (1600m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday to go with previous Group 1 victories in France, the UK and Ireland…. Read More »
Holding an almost unassailable advantage in the race for the Sydney apprentices’ title, Braith Nock has an opportunity to make a play for state honours. With just over six weeks of the season remaining, Nock has inched to within two wins of NSW leader Ash Morgan after booting home his first… Read More »
War Machine has cemented his status as one of the country’s rising sprint stars with an emphatic Group 1 victory in the Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm, paving the way for a potential Hayes family showdown in The Everest. Formally in the care of the late Mike Moroney, War Machine has… Read More »
A drop back to 1600m or a rise to 2000m is the question Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman face after the win of Saban at Sandown. Saban made it back-to-back victories at the track when he took out the Sportsbet More Places Handicap (1800m) on Saturday having been successful over the same… Read More »
It has been a case of rinse and repeat for Tulloch Lodge stayer Sir Lucan, who has become just the third horse in almost 70 years to win the Winter Cup twice. Rebounding from an indifferent first-up performance last month when he settled with the tailenders and never threatened, the… Read More »
A brilliant ride by Dylan Gibbons has helped King Of Roseau end an 18-month hiatus from the winner’s list and shed his tag as “the best class one horse going around”. The gelding was successful on debut at Canberra in December 2023 but hadn’t managed to repeat the dose since. He had… Read More »
One week apprentice Hannah Edgley and the stable of Leon and Troy Corstens and Will Larkin were the toast of punters, the following they were their nightmare. Edgley landed her first Flemington winner last week when she teamed for the first time in town with the Corstens and Larkin stable… Read More »
The Lindsay Park team of Ben, Will and J D Hayes has taken advantage of a winter contest at Sandown to add to their haul of two-year-old winners. Success by Hello Romeo in the Sportsbet Jockey Watch Handicap (1000m) on Saturday was the Lindsay Park stable’s 25th juvenile winner for the season…. Read More »
A difficult week has ended on a high for trainer Gary Portelli with juvenile Queen Of Clubs delivering a promising win at Rosehill just a day after injury cut short the racing career of stable star Kimochi. Kimochi was due to contest Saturday’s Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) in Brisbane but was ruled… Read More »
Trainer Luke Fernie is adamant Ripper Farooq isn’t just making up the numbers in tomorrow’s Raconteur Stakes (1400m) at Bunbury. The gelding possesses a record of one win and two placings from nine starts but has been placed in blacktype company in last year’s Listed Supremacy Stakes (1000m). He enters… Read More »
