The Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr stable is pinning their faith in last start winner Hezashocka providing them with victory in the Doomben Cup. Hezashocka is coming off a last start win in the Listed Gosford Cup (2200m) at Newcastle on May 11 on a heavy track, conditions the stable hope… Read More »
Alsephina, one of Grant and Alana Williams’ top mares, had her winter campaign cut short before it even commenced at Belmont on Saturday. The quality mare was the only low point for the Grant and Alana Williams camp after Western Empire continued his winning surge in the Group 3 Belmont Sprint (1400m)-albeit… Read More »
Giga Kick might be a few months away from returning to the races, but his three-quarter-brother Pantoja will be in action at Bendigo on Wednesday. The two-year-old Pariah gelding, who is also prepared by Giga Kick’s trainer Clayton Douglas, will debut in the Dunlop Pitson & Jenkins Civil 2YO Maiden (1100m)… Read More »
The anniversary of Kovalica’s biggest success comes up in the next week and Chris Waller is hoping to celebrate the milestone with another Brisbane Group 1 win. The four-year-old son of Ocean Park will chase his first win since last year’s Queensland Derby when he steps out in this Saturday’s $1… Read More »
Blake Shinn will make the trip to Sydney to partner Think About It in a barrier trial as he prepares for his first race ride on the Everest winner. Sam Clipperton has been the gelding’s regular jockey over the past 15 months, but connections decided to make a change following a disappointing Sydney… Read More »
Michael Dee is heading to the Gold Coast to trial multiple Group 1 winning mare Magic Time ahead of her first run in Brisbane. The Group 1 Kingsford Smith Cup (1300m) at Eagle Farm on June 1 is the race trainer Grahame Begg has picked out to run Magic Time in first-up in… Read More »
Ciaron Maher has been left to marvel at the tenacity of bonny mare Bella Nipotina, who has overcome a busy travel schedule to upset I Wish I Win in the $1.5 million Doomben 10,000. Kicking off her preparation in Melbourne, Bella Nipotina was narrowly edged out by Chain Of Lightning in the T… Read More »
Six months of planning has paid off with The Map earning a ‘Golden Ticket’ into the Melbourne Cup. The Listed Andrew Ramsden Stakes (2800m) at Flemington on Saturday grants the winner a ballot exemption into the Group 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) in November. Trainers Dan Clarken and Oopy Macgillivray planned their assault… Read More »
A composed ride from Zac Lloyd has helped Fall For Cindy post an invaluable Group Three win, the star apprentice keeping his cool despite having to throw the script out the window shortly after the start. Lloyd had hoped to settle the John O’Shea-trained mare in the first half of the field… Read More »
Who Dares has finally lived up to the lofty expectations placed on him winning a Stakes race at Flemington. The Listed Straight Six (1200m) on Saturday fell the way of the heavily supported gelding, prepared at Mornington by Pat Carey and Harris Walker. Sent out the $3.30 favourite under Patrick Moloney, Who… Read More »
A relieved Luke Pepper will press on to the Queensland winter carnival with renewed confidence after an underdone Opal Ridge maintained her perfect home track record with a classy victory in the Ortensia Stakes at Scone. Pepper admitted to some pre-race anxiety given Opal Ridge hadn’t raced since November, but he banked… Read More »
The Chris Waller stable doesn’t expect to see the best of juvenile filly Lazzura until at least the spring, so her effort to bank a black-type success in the Woodlands Stakes at Scone has been a happy bonus. A $500,000 Magic Millions purchase, the daughter of Snitzel scored an impressive debut win… Read More »
Grahame Begg had plans of taking last start Stakes winner Maharba to the Wagga Town Plate, a race the sprinter’s owner Gary Towzell would have cherished. But success in the Listed Hareeba Stakes (1200m) at Mornington, combined with a wide draw for the Wagga Town Plate, saw Maharba scratched and saved for… Read More »
Lindsay Park galloper Port Guillaume has already had a spin around in Australia’s most iconic race, the Melbourne Cup. The now Ben, Will J d Hayes -trained galloper finished 21st in the 2021 Cup behind Verry Elleegant and nowadays he’s a stayer in lesser ranks while also competing over jumps. Port Guillaume is down to… Read More »
Even if Banana Queen did not race again, Nick Wakim would have been happy with his purchase at last week’s Inglis Chairman’s Sale. But, while she is fit, well and in work with Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou , Wakim figures he may as well race her on, which is why she… Read More »
The performance of in-form three-year-old Kintyre at Doomben will be pivotal in determining his next start with trainer Gary Portelli refusing to rule out a Queensland Derby bid. The half-brother to 2022 Golden Slipper winner Fireburn will be shooting for his third successive victory in Saturday’s Rough Habit Plate (2000m), having captured Group… Read More »
A failed stint in Hong Kong and a couple of injury setbacks kept Coastwatch sidelined for almost two years, but his new trainers are optimistic the Group 1 placegetter is on the verge of resurrecting his form. Coastwatch won two Group races during his three-year-old season and placed in the 202 Golden… Read More »
Gold Trip has run his last race with the Melbourne Cup winner to be a banner resident at Australia’s newest stud farm. The son of Outstrip, who also won a Turnbull Stakes at Group 1 level, will join the roster at Lovatsville, the operation that has taken over Leneva Park Stud…. Read More »
Russell Stewart says Golden Kathleen can playing a starring role at Belmont on Saturday and end her two-year-old season in the same winning manner as she started in Bunbury in February. What will go a long way to helping Russell Stewart realise his plans will be the absence of boom juvenile… Read More »
The Lindsay Park team has decided to split their two-year-olds from a race at Flemington with one heading interstate for a contest at Scone. Impressive Warrnambool debut winner La Pleine Lune heads to Scone on Friday to contest the Inglis 2YO Challenge (1200m) while Ben, Will and J D Hayes will rely… Read More »
