Lord Lloyd Webber’s decision to back the first crop of Australian yearlings by his former star racehorse Too Darn Hot reaped an immediate reward when Too Darn Lizzie won Saturday’s The Fillies Debut at the Gold Coast. The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained filly was a $1 million purchase at… Read More »
She’s no stranger to winning a Highway and rider Mikayla Weir got the job done again at Rosehill Gardens aboard the Brett Thompson-prepared Smart And Dapper ($16). The Smart Missile progeny had a fairly tough run in transit but was still too strong for outsider Fear The Knight ($31) by a head… Read More »
The Group 1 Australian Guineas (1600m) is the pie in the sky for Otago who backed up a dominant debut win at Bendigo with a narrow in at Flemington on Saturday, taking out a 3yo benchmark 70 over 1400m. Backed into $1.75 with betting sites, Otago landed just behind the speed… Read More »
Ben, Will and JD Hayes have options aplenty for Zestiman after the two-year-old colt won well down the Flemington straight over 1000m on debut. The son of Zoustar was kept safe as the $3.60 favourite with top betting sites and wore down $8.50 chance I’m Kenough who kicked clear at the… Read More »
Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott were the heaviest-hitters on Day 4 at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, landing the highest-priced lot of the sale and another seven-figure youngster who boasts bloodlines they know well. A few hours before they paid $1.7 million for the session-topping filly by I Am… Read More »
Amelia’s Jewel’s autumn campaign will be her last with Simon Miller with the star Western Australian mare to be trained in Sydney this spring. The four-year-old’s owner Peter Walsh broke the news when detailing the Group 1 winner’s 2024 itinerary after selling a Zoustar colt for $1.3 million on Day 4 at… Read More »
James Harron spent up on Day 2 at Magic Millions and will be hoping the colts by Extreme Choice and Zoustar that he paid $1.6 million and $1 million for can do what Highness has done. The son of Snitzel was a $900,000 buy at last year’s Gold Coast Yearling Sale and is… Read More »
The Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou yard have two good chances at Rosehill on Saturday with a pair of four-year-old geldings and Alexiou is keen to see how the lightly raced High Blue Sea will return off over a year’s break. Fourth to Osipenko and Madame Pommery on debut, High Blue Sea… Read More »
Kris Lees is confident Luncies gets his best chance to break a seven-month winning drought when he contests the $200,000 Listed January Cup at Rosehill this Saturday. The 2000-metre event will mark the first time the imported seven-year-old has been out of Group company for the season. The son of Iffraaj got… Read More »
Too Darn Hot was again in the Gold Coast Yearling Sale spotlight on Wednesday and this Saturday the filly who had his name up in light this time last year will look to claim some Magic Millions prizemoney. Too Darn Lizzie will make her anticipated first raceday appearance in the… Read More »
Once considered one of the more promising three-year-olds in Melbourne, Green Belt will resume in a benchmark 70 over 1400m at Flemington on Saturday after nearly two years off the scene with a tendon injury. A winner of his first two starts in January 2022, the Mick Price & Michael… Read More »
Owner Peter Walsh is confident Amelia’s Jewel is capable of going one better in this year’s $5 million Quokka (1200m), following the announcement she would run in TABtouch’s slot earlier today. The star mare was narrowly beaten when finishing second to Overpass in the inaugural edition of the Quokka last April…. Read More »
Mick Price knows exactly what horse is takes to win the Group 1 Australian Guineas (1600m) and is hopeful that Otago can win on Saturday and put his hand up as a possible contender. Price, who now trains in partnership with Michael Kent Jnr, has won the three-year-old feature three times with… Read More »
Lucy Yeomans hasn’t attended the Magic Millions sales or raceday as a licensed trainer having joined Lloyd Kennewell in April 2023 and admits it’s been an exciting time representing the stable while Kennewell remains in Victoria. “It’s exciting, I think we put the writing on the wall over the Spring having runners… Read More »
David Ellis reinvested more than half his proceeds from the sale of Avantage into the star mare’s first foal at Magic Millions on Thursday, with the Te Akau Racing principal engineering a new top lot early on Day 3 of the Gold Coast Yearling Sale. Ellis paid $2.1 million for the… Read More »
Popular seven-year-old gelding The Astrologist will return to his happy hunting ground at Flemington as he aims to record his fourth win down the straight and his first Group 3 Standish Handicap (1200m). Third in the race in 2022 to Halvorsen, who had a setback and won’t be contesting the race,… Read More »
Annabel Neasham is on the Gold Coast for the Magic Millions sale and raceday but will have strong chances in both the Magic Millions Fillies & Mares and the Listed January Cup at Randwick. Naval College will jump favourite in the 2000m feature in Neasham’s home state with the last-start winner… Read More »
Godolphin has already won the Magic Millions 2YO Classic with a $600,000 yearling, but James Cummings recognises the difference between 2019 heroine Exhilarates and his representative this year, Parkour. That’s beyond the obvious, being that Exhilarates was a filly and Parkour is a colt. And while each is by a proven stallion,… Read More »
The Julie Richards-trained Jaja Chaboogie bounced back to his best when letting rip down the outside to pick up his rivals and take out the second edition of the $109,000 Ladbrokes Carpet Charge (1009m). Not favoured by the market after suffering a heavy defeat in the Listed Conquering Stakes, the seven-year-old… Read More »
The progressive Ashy Boy continued his impressive rise through the grades to salute and provide Craig Newitt with an incredible eighth success in the race. Kicking off this campaign with a narrow victory in BM68 grade at Launceston back in November, the five-year-old gelding has come along in leaps and bounds this… Read More »
