Cellarmaster ($5.50) edged out Platinum Pantheon ($6.50) in a thrilling finish with Rustemo ($8.50) just over a length away third. Cellarmaster returned a winning dividend at $5.50 according to leading betting sites with sign up bonus, while race favourite Within The Law ($2.60) failed to fire after attracting the bulk… Read More »
Unheralded mare Arabian Rose has delivered Sunshine Coast trainer James Healy his first stakes win with a hometown victory in the Listed Glasshouse Handicap at Caloundra. The mare was made third emergency when the final field was declared, and Healy endured an anxious wait before Arabian Rose squeezed into the… Read More »
Luke Cartwright celebrated a career milestone when he teamed with Wise Inlaw to claim Saturday’s $175,000 A R Creswick Stakes (1200m) at Flemington. Victoria’s leading metropolitan apprentice notched his first Stakes success when he guided the Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman-trained gelding to victory in the Listed event. It was… Read More »
Trainer Bjorn Baker revealed he is likely to bypass the Grafton Cup later this month to set Thebudgiesmugla for the spring carnival and will consider targeting the Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup double. All this from a five-year-old gelding who came from New Zealand with initial concerns he might be… Read More »
Feet problems have plagued General Salute throughout his career, but the horse has put his best hoof forward at Rosehill to land an overdue win in the Listed Winter Stakes. Co-trainer Gerald Ryan revealed the five-year-old had suffered issues almost from birth and spent a year on the sidelines following… Read More »
The Mick Van Gestel-trained Dark Glitter, ridden by apprentice Anna Roper, scored her first win in 494 days when she finished brilliantly to win the Ranvet Handicap (1200m). This came on the same program as General Salute had 458 days between wins before his Winter Stakes success, Polyglot snapped a… Read More »
The form guide certainly didn’t read positively for Detonator Jack’s chances in the VRC-CRV Winter Championship Series Final but a combination of factors saw the seven-year-old find his best. Winless in 952 days prior, Detonator Jack failed to beat a runner home the start prior in the David Bourke Handicap… Read More »
Atoning for a luckless last-start defeat, Hello Captain has stretched his record to four wins from six starts at Rosehill, and if he can stretch in distance, trainer Chris Waller says the sky is the limit. The three-year-old scored over 1300m in Saturday’s Find Your Stakes Winner @ The Chase… Read More »
The advantages of the Hawkes family’s dual-state operation was on show at Saturday’s Finals Day meeting at Flemington, where the father-and-sons training team won the $175,000 Taj Rossi Series Final with Marwooba. The John, Wayne and Michael Hawkes-trained son of Wootton Bassett bounced off a win at Rosehill on June… Read More »
Boom colt Omolong is likely to be aimed at the Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes during the Melbourne spring carnival after maintaining his unbeaten record with another stylish win at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday. Omolong unleashed a powerful finishing surge to score his second win from as many starts in… Read More »
Star Sydney jockey Tommy Berry has been fined $4000 by Racing NSW stewards after pleading guilty to giving misleading evidence during an inquiry into raceday contact with disqualified trainer John O’Shea. Berry was forced to answer questions from stewards last month after he suggested in a post-race intereview that he… Read More »
Sheila Laxon has not been back to the Flemington winner’s room since the first Tuesday in November a couple of years ago, but she is optimistic of a return this Saturday. The Macedon Lodge trainer and her partner John Symons have three Finals Day shots at their first Flemington winner… Read More »
Bohemian Angel had a false start last week, but the four-year-old mare will make her debut for Phillip Stokes this Saturday at Murray Bridge. The former Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman-trained mare was an acceptor for a 1000-metre race at last Saturday’s Morphettville Parks meeting but the stable elected to… Read More »
General Salute boasts some of the best form lines of any horse competing at Rosehill on Saturday, and jockey Tim Clark says he only needs to race up to those to win the feature sprint on the card. The gelding finished runner-up to star mare Autumn Glow in last year’s… Read More »
A miscommunication almost cost Tyler Schiller the chance to test Gatineau in a recent barrier trial, but there won’t be any such mix-ups ahead of the juvenile’s debut at Rosehill. Schiller was accidentally legged aboard Gatineau’s stablemate Blackbelt, who contested the same 900m heat on June 19, and it wasn’t… Read More »
Billy Egan hasn’t played much of a role in Jimmy The Bear’s Winter Championship defence to this point, but he will reclaim the keys at the right time. The no-fuss jockey will be reunited with the Patrick Payne-trained gelding in Saturday’s $200,000 Listed final at Flemington. It will be the… Read More »
One is trained at Toowoomba while the other is at Sunshine Coast but the common theme of gear changes will hopefully see Yes I’m Ugly and Hannabana at Ipswich on Friday. Taylah Mackinnon is based north of Brisbane and she is looking to the application of a tongue tie to… Read More »
Craig Williams doesn’t own the record for most wins in the Winter Championship Final, but no rider has dominated the day on which it is run like the popular veteran jockey. His lone win in the $200,000 Listed Flemington feature came aboard Magic Consol, which was part of a record… Read More »
Experience garnered towards the pointy end of the two-year-old season is expected to hold Satin Summer in good stead when she resumes in an off-season race at Rosehill. Trained by Michael Freedman, a renowned conditioner of juveniles, Satin Summer defeated subsequent VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes runner-up Zambales on debut in… Read More »
Progressive Lindsay Park stayer The Western Front will continue his enduring campaign in Saturday’s $150,000 Banjo Paterson Series Final at Flemington. The 2600-metre event will be the 10th start of a campaign that began with a fourth placing in a benchmark 70 over 1600m at Flemington all the way back… Read More »
