Group One winner Gringotts has continued to improve with each campaign and connections expect that to again be the case as the rising six-year-old closes in on his seasonal return. After capturing the Big Dance (1600m) and The Gong (1600m) at the end of last spring, Gringotts returned in the autumn… Read More »
Bjorn Baker hopes to make the most of Robusto’s fitness by taking on some of the early season stakes races after The Ingham winner lumped a record weight to victory in the Listed Winter Challenge at Rosehill. The gelding prevailed in a two-horse war with leader and eventual runner-up Accredited,… Read More »
A lack of suitable staying races in Sydney saw the Annabel and Rob Archibald stable send a team of four horses to their recently acquired Flemington stable. It paid a winning dividend with Mormona leading home the quartet in the Deane Lester Flemington Cup 1849 (2800m) at Flemington on Saturday…. Read More »
With less than two weeks before Godolphin’s private training operation winds up, Darren Beadman is savouring every last success, including the win by filly Amusing at Rosehill. The global conglomerate will proceed under a public model from the new season when its racing stock will be dispersed among a variety of… Read More »
Former Swedish pony rider Rebecca Bronett Prag has celebrated a significant milestone at Rosehill with country-trained stayer Knights Armour delivering her first Saturday metropolitan win. Indentured to renowned horseman Keith Dryden in Canberra, Bronett Prag was having her 20th ride in town for her second win, the other coming aboard the same galloper in… Read More »
It may not have the status of a Stakes race, but Rose Hammond had been looking forward to riding in an apprentices’ only race at Flemington all week. The RMBL Investments Rising Stars Final (1600m) at Flemington on Saturday was for apprentice riders only after a series of races held throughout… Read More »
The Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young stable will chase a second win the Victoria Derby following the win of Arcora at Flemington. Arcora took out the Byerley Handicap (1800m) on Saturday to earn a ballot exemption into the Group 1 Victoria Derby (2500m) at Flemington on November 1. Busuttin and Young took out… Read More »
Chad Schofield is an unabashed fan of debut winner Without Peer after the youngster overcame his inexperience to outclass his Rosehill rivals. Despite racing greenly in the straight, the Ciaron Maher-trained two-year-old unleashed a strong finishing sprint from near the tail to down Spicy Prawn ($5) by a short neck in… Read More »
As James Cummings’ tenure with Godolphin enters its final phase, winning races is still high on the agenda. The Byerley Handicap (1800m) at Flemington is a contest the Godolphin team would like to win and it’s a race that could set up Bayou Music for a tilt at a spring campaign… Read More »
The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable has swung the gear changes in a bid to extract some sign of form from a French import at Flemington. A set of blinkers and a tongue tie has been added to the race day gear of Shamarkand ahead of his start in the Deane… Read More »
Peter Snowden has been rolling out some promising young horses at the backend of the season and he is set to continue that trend in the coming weeks. Raging Force, an impressive winner at Rosehill on July 5, I Am Invincible filly Infusion, Capitalist colt Caesar and Wednesday’s Kensington victor Grand Prairie… Read More »
A drying track isn’t expected to bother surprise Winter Stakes winner Estadio Mestalla but it will bring his stablemate right into contention when they clash again at Rosehill. Estadio Mestalla started at $61 when taking out the Listed feature on a soft 7 surface last start, relegating Joe Pride-trained barn mate… Read More »
Jockey Joe Azzopardi is brimming with confidence and excited to be teaming up with Snow God for a second campaign, a three-year-old that he thinks has plenty of upside. Azzopardi has a big opinion of the Playing God gelding and believes he can deliver a late season victory when he… Read More »
Dan Clarken knows a thing or two when it comes to winning feature two-year-old races. The G1 Blue Diamond-winning trainer, who added to his 2YO Stakes tally when Steel Trap won the G3 David Coles Stakes earlier this year, will chase another headline win with Bootlegger in Saturday’s G3 SA Sires’… Read More »
Former French horse Don Diego De Vega has prevailed in a dramatic Grafton Cup with the pre-post favourite scratched at the barrier and the eventual runner-up all but throwing the race away in the straight. Top fancy Bear On The Loose got his leg over the gate in the starting stalls and… Read More »
Trainer Gavin Bedggood hopes to get a better appreciation as to the capabilities of Yamashita’s Gold when he runs at Flemington. Yamashita’s Gold is down to contest the VRC Member Sarah Hart Trophy (1000m) on Saturday and is bidding to break through for his maiden success. Bedggood did not hesitate with the… Read More »
Gun trainer Stephen Miller has probably heard the phrases before and particularly in the last couple of months. The margins between success and failure are small. Failure and success are flipsides of the same coin. The more times you lose, the closer you are to a win. With half a… Read More »
The Victoria Racing Club prides itself on being the home of the stayer. Flemington runs Australia’s most famous race, the Melbourne Cup, and is the home of the staying test for early season three-year-old’s, the Victoria Derby. As the racing season draws to a close, the VRC will stage a… Read More »
Jockey Jake Noonan will be looking to repay the faith of the Patrick and Michelle Payne stable when he partners Bold Soul at Flemington. Noonan rides the stayer in the Deane Lester Flemington Cup 1849 (2800m) on Saturday and is looking to strike winning form again on the rising five-year-old. Bold Soul and Noonan… Read More »
Richard Litt is the first to admit it took him a little while to figure out Romeo’s Choice but now that he has, he would happily have a stable full of horses as genuine. The gelding will line up in the Schweppes Sprint (1100m) at Rosehill on Saturday chasing back-to-back wins after… Read More »
