James Cummings and the Godolphin team are happy to again step up to 1600m with a more mature Pisces at Caulfield. Gelded at the end of his two –year-old season, Pisces has finished in the placings in his two runs this campaign, including a win in the Group 3 Blue Sapphire Stakes… Read More »
Fresh from Port Lockroy taking out the Railway Stakes (1600m) on Saturday, the Annabel Neasham-Rob Archibald training operation are quietly confident of securing a second Group 1 victory in the space of seven days in Perth this weekend. Neasham and Archibald will saddle up Lady Laguna in the Winterbottom Stakes, optimistic she… Read More »
Peter Fernie and Lucy Fiore, who proved an irresistible combination in the recently completed Kalgoorlie season, carried that force into black-type company at Ascot on Saturday following the front-running win of Sentimental Hero in the Listed A.J.Scahill Cup (2100m), opening the possibility to an even bigger prize on New Year’s… Read More »
Fresh from Port Lockroy taking out the Railway Stakes (1600m) on Saturday, the Annabel Neasham-Rob Archibald training operation are quietly confident of securing a second Group 1 victory in the space of seven days in Perth this weekend. Neasham and Archibald will saddle up Lady Laguna in the Winterbottom Stakes, optimistic she can… Read More »
Welcome relief from persistent rain has seen the Doomben surface go from unsuitable to race on Friday to approaching what could be a track rated just in the soft range on Wednesday. Two listed races highlighted the beginning of the Brisbane run of the Queensland Summer Carnival and with the… Read More »
Arapaho may not have won a race for more than 18 months, but through a number of setbacks and issues over that time he has become one of the more special horses to Bjorn Baker’s training team. Arapaho is set to line up in the Group 2 Zipping Classic at… Read More »
Star mare gives birth overnight with positive signs for mum and son. Winx is back in the racing headlines after giving birth to a colt on Monday morning. Her third foal, this son of Snitzel follows a now two-year-old filly by Pierro who sold for a dizzying $10 million at… Read More »
Promising filly Storyville has shot to equal favouritism for the Group 1 Northerly Stakes (1800m) at Ascot on December 7 after her impressive W.A Guineas victory. Storyville is now an equal $7.00 top elect for the Group 1 Northerly Stakes (1800m) with online betting sites after storming home in Saturday’s Group… Read More »
Legendary Japanese jockey Yutaka Take added another Japan Cup to his resume with what he described as one of his most special wins aboard Do Deuce. The five-year-old son of Heart’s Cry came with a swooping run from 800 metres out to round up his rivals and hold off a late… Read More »
A recent barrier trial hitout has confirmed Gary Portelli’s suspicions that Kintyre is better ridden quietly, and he plans to revert to that pattern for the horse’s next assignment. While the gelding collected the Frank Packer Plate (2000m) and Queensland Guineas (1600m) as a three-year-old when racing on the speed, earlier… Read More »
In its second year, Racing SA’s Sportsbet Finals Day at Morphettville saw the culmination of eight weeks of heats climaxing in a day of racing worth more than $1 million. Nunes in control in Country Sprint Final Favourite backers applauded as Coeur De Lyon ($2.25) ran out the 1200-metres of… Read More »
Port Lockroy has built upon his eye catching Golden Eagle performance with a maiden Group 1 victory in the Railway Stakes at Ascot on Saturday. Three weeks after a closing sixth in the $10million Golden Eagle at Rosehill on November 2, Port Lockroy was a class above in WA’s feature Group… Read More »
A trip to the Cranbourne racecourse for a midweek track gallop has proven instrumental in Globe taking out the Listed Cranbourne Cup on Saturday. The Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained galloper is prepared at the Cranbourne Training Centre, but the track was opened for pre-raceday gallops ahead of Saturday’s meeting…. Read More »
Winning a $300,000 race is significant but for Blake Spriggs it meant a whole lot more when Headwall strode to victory in The Warra. Now with two wins and a placing in three starts at the track, the Matthew Smith-trained, Warwick Farm-based galloper is quite at home at Kembla Grange and the… Read More »
Jockey Ethan Brown expects Nadal to rise to better company after he blew his rivals away in the inaugural running of The Meteorite at Cranbourne. The $1 million race on Saturday is one of two slot races run by Southside Racing, four weeks apart. Southside Racing was borne out of the… Read More »
The punters had it right as the strong firmer Gringotts made it a one act affair in The Gong and will now chase a yet to be achieved treble as the Maher stable turns their focus to The Ingham at Randwick next month. “He was just better than them,” Maher’s… Read More »
A share in last month’s Caulfield Cup winner Duke De Sessa is being offered on Inglis Digital. The five percent share is one of the headline lots that form a Halo Racing unreserved reduction, offered on behalf of the late Colin McKenna, who died last month. Also up for grabs is… Read More »
After a successful three-year-old season that netted seven victories, Wings Of Song is set for her racing return at Cranbourne. The Patrick and Michelle Payne-trained mare returns in the Rosemont Stud Pendant (1400m) on Saturday, her first outing since April and her first for the brother and sister training team. Wings… Read More »
Auguste Rodin will be feted a Tokyo Racecourse on Sunday no matter the result of the Japan Cup, but Aidan O’Brien is desperate to ensure it is a winner’s ceremony. The legendary trainer shrewdly identified the 2400-metre Group 1 as the perfect swansong for the Coolmore star, who will be the subject… Read More »
From the time two slot races were announced by Southside Racing, the Robbie Griffiths and Mathew de Kock stable knew they wanted to be a part of it. Griffiths was born and bred in the Cranbourne area and was one of the first to establish a barn at the Cranbourne… Read More »
