The prospect of Lady Of Camelot taking on the mares in the Coolmore Classic holds no fears for Adrian Bott, who is content that a seasoning campaign in the spring has laid the ideal groundwork for the task. While the filly hasn’t recorded a win in eight starts since her Golden… Read More »
Peter Snowden is keeping faith in one-time Golden Slipper fancy Memo to bounce back in the Magic Night Stakes after blotting her copybook with her first unplaced performance in five starts. After kicking off her career with a promising Gimcrack Stakes placing, Memo followed with a series of eye-catching performances, highlighted… Read More »
The windswept and rain battered Gold Coast area has been in recovery mode this week and it is the racecourse that is in one of the most positive positions after Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred passed through seven days ago. More than 600 millimetres of rain fell at the Gold Coast Turf… Read More »
“It costs nothing to dream and everything not to.” It’s a quote from Rodney White and a philosophy shared by Joanna Offen. The Esperance trainer is a dreamer and hopes to turn one of her dreams into a reality when I Am Spartacus contests the $400,000 Bluff Knoll (1099m) at… Read More »
The Percy Sykes Stakes is among the options for Trapeze Artist youngster Pleasure Queen after she made a perfect start to her career with a winning debut on Randwick’s Kensington track. Co-trainer Sterling Alexiou said he had marvelled at the filly’s improvement over the past few months after she showed little… Read More »
After misfiring in her stable debut for Mack Hall at Narrogin, the five-year-old mare defied the outrageous odds of 200 to 1 to score one of the biggest upsets seen in Perth for years. Stunned punters were left near speechless and adding insult to injury was Queen’s Sacrifice winning the race by… Read More »
Befuddle first preference, but McGaw a handy back-up in The Showdown. There is no doubt about who David Azzopardi will be cheering loudest for in Saturday’s $1 million The Showdown at Caulfield. Azzopardi operates Dream Thoroughbreds, which will be represented by the John Sadler-trained Befuddle in the race that carries a… Read More »
Mick Price says Hedged is capable of winning a good race if he can get his head right. The Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr stable has fiddled around with the headgear of Hedged in the bid to extract the best from the sprinter at Caulfield. Hedged runs in the VOBIS Gold Sprint… Read More »
The Lindsay Park team of Ben, Will and J D Hayes had high aspirations for imported galloper Que Tempesta when he kicked off his spring campaign. The Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup were high on the agenda for the Irish-bred galloper who raced with success in Italy, but after three spring… Read More »
Whether it is Craig Williams picking his mark, or Enver Jusufovic knowing when to engage the top hoop, the in-form rider/trainer duo certainly knows when to team up. They were back in the winner’s stall last Saturday at Flemington thanks to Mytemptation, which was Williams’ first ride for Jusufovic in 2025. That… Read More »
Victorian mare Coeur Volante will be out to deliver an emotional Coolmore Classic win for connections just over two weeks after the death of her popular trainer Michael Moroney. The Melbourne Cup-winning horseman died in his sleep last month after recently making a training comeback following a serious battle with illness…. Read More »
Stablemates Powers Of Opal and Inevitable Truth both have the ATC Australian Oaks as their carnival goal but the pair will take different paths towards it. Powers Of Opal will have her next start in Saturday’s Phar Lap Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill before heading to the blue riband via the Vinery Stud… Read More »
An Extraordinary General Meeting of the Australian Turf Club will be held early next month to determine the fate of the proposed sale of Rosehill racecourse. A majority of ATC members need to vote in favour of the move for it to go ahead with club officials projecting the sale… Read More »
Fresh from claiming a brace of feature race wins over the weekend, Zac Lloyd has bedded down his mounts for two of the drawcard events of the Sydney autumn carnival. Lloyd has confirmed he will partner Saturday’s Randwick Guineas winner Linebacker at 49kg in the Doncaster Mile (1600m), while the horse he… Read More »
A thunderstorm at Sandown almost cost the expensive Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman-trained filly Conscience a debut win at Sandown. A 90-minute delay because of lightning strikes which also produced 12mm of rain before the IVE> Handicap (1000m) on Wednesday held the two-year-olds up in the tie-up stalls before stewards decided… Read More »
In a pleasant surprise, Bonjoy’s breakout campaign has been extended. Thoughts of going for a break and getting prepped for a Group 1 assault at the end of the year has been put on hold for another week. It was thought that Bonjoy was in the paddock after missing the Detonator… Read More »
When Peter Moody did the deal with Mark Chittick for I Wish I Win to race in Australia, the idea was to try and win a country cup or two. But the son of Savabeel exceeded those heights and retires a multiple Group 1 winner with just shy of $13 million… Read More »
A Golden Slipper berth will be in the offing for the winner of the Magic Night Stakes at Rosehill and trainer John Sargent is hoping his improving filly Autumn Blonde can put her name in the frame. A daughter of The Autumn Sun, Autumn Blonde finished a game third to subsequent Reisling… Read More »
Husband and wife training team Emma-Lee and David Browne are leaving nothing to chance as they chase a rich restricted race prize at Caulfield. Success in the VOBIS Platinum Showdown (1200m) at Caulfield on Saturday with either Mcgaw or Himalayan would be the Kiwi pair’s biggest since joining forces in 2015. After… Read More »
Like most trainers and connections of a mare, Tony Noonan would like to see Herbert Park in a race at Stakes level. But for the time being he is content to see Herbert Park progress through the grades and improve her race smarts before getting to a higher level. As part of… Read More »
