Eeyore Wayz resumes racing on Saturday in what trainer Raquel Reid describes as a defining campaign for the six-year-old. Reid is aiming high and hopes the Listed Beaufine Stakes (1000m) is the first big step towards the Ascot Pinnacles carnival later this year. “At this stage I cannot fault him,”… Read More »
Six-year-old Money Matters will showcase his winter credentials at Belmont and the Gangemi brothers think he can make a bright start to his campaign on Saturday. The likelihood of a wet track and the 1000m of the Beaufine Stakes has co-trainers Chris and Michael Gangemi believing Money Matters has the right conditions to… Read More »
Usually the domain of larger stables like Ciaron Maher and David Eustace or Chris Waller, Mornington trainer Pat Carey saddled multiple runners in a race at Sandown on Wednesday. The LockettLED.au Handicap (1200m) saw Carey saddle Starlight Scope, The Sisters and Mvita with the more highly fancied of that trio landing the prize. Ridden by Jye Mcneil, Starlight… Read More »
Terry Robinson hasn’t given up on giving 2021 Kosciuszko winner Art Cadeau another shot at the $2 million feature, pending his performance in the Winter Stakes at Randwick. The gelding has had a mixed preparation, making a solid return when finishing just over two lengths from Mnementh in the Town Plate at Wagga… Read More »
The aptly named Refreshing has given champion jockey Damien Oliver his first winner back since a golfing holiday in the US. Oliver and a group of golfing tragic mates had a two-week break in the US playing some of that country’s best, and exclusive, golf clubs. The champion jockey said it was… Read More »
An extra week between a Stakes race at Flemington and one at Caulfield is expected to play into the hands of lightly raced mare Sigh. The Peter Moody-trained four-year-old was scratched from the Listed Santa Ana Lane Sprint Series Final (1200m) at Flemington last week to be saved for the Group 3 Sir John Monash Stakes (1100m)… Read More »
The nation’s capital is set to have its first $1 million race day with the Canberra Racing Club moving to condense its annual carnival into a single showcase meeting, headlined by the Group 3 Black Opal Stakes. The two-year-old feature will be one of four stakes races on a bumper… Read More »
Benaud is more accustomed to Group 1s than Class 1s and it showed at Wyong on Tuesday when the grey gelding beat up on four hapless rivals in the $40,000 Happy Retirement Isorich Class 1 & Maiden Plate. The John O’Shea-trained four-year-old recorded his first win since debut victory at Nowra… Read More »
Priceless has a way to go to scale the heights of her older half-sister, but co-trainer Troy Corstens is confident the three-year-old filly’s first win might not be too far away. The younger sibling to Roch ‘N’ Horse resumes in the 1200-metre maiden that kicks off Wednesday’s Sandown program. The set-weights event will… Read More »
Sydney trainer Bjorn Baker is sending Malkovich to Melbourne looking for redemption in the Sir John Monash Stakes at Caulfield. Malkovich was run down late in the 2021 Group 3 race over 1100m by Red Can Man, but a stronger version will head to the start on Saturday. Baker said he was looking forward to running… Read More »
Knight’s Choice proved in Saturday’s Winx Guineas just why John Symons has had such a big opinion of him, but the questions around the gelding don’t end with what to do with him next. There is a chance it might not be the Sunshine Coast trainer’s decision to make with… Read More »
Oakland Park Stud’s head honcho Neville Duncan had to be at his persuasive best to keep the state’s best jockey interested in riding his staying talent, Ihts Closing Inn. There was some early hesitancy from William Pike, but since he was legged aboard the filly for the first time at… Read More »
Caulfield is back hosting group action and the G3 Sir John Monash Stakes (1100m) has some promising horses entered. Sigh ($9) for Peter Moody and Flying On A Limb ($9) bring in strong winning form angles so will be tough to beat. But there is a horse who contested an Everest in… Read More »
Trainer Phillip Stokes will attempt back-to-back wins in the Group 3 Sir John Monash Stakes with Mileva, but this time for a new ownership group. Mileva was purchased for $700,000 at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale in May by Kia Ora Stud with Saturday’s Group 3 sprint over 1100m at Caulfield potentially the mare’s last race. The daughter of Headway… Read More »
Albury based Mitchell Beer has landed his first Stakes winner since branching out on his own as a trainer when Mnementh led throughout to score at Flemington. Beer has been training in his own right since 2018 and moved his operation from Mornington to Albury when he saw a market for an aspiring trainer. While Beer… Read More »
Exciting country sprinter Mogo Magic has underlined his claims as a serious Kosciuszko contender, showing speed, grit and class to extend his unbeaten run to four with a scintillating performance at Rosehill. Lumping 60kg and giving weight to more seasoned rivals, the $1.75 favourite was pressured in the lead but shook… Read More »
A plan hatched during the Adelaide Carnival has paid off for Godolphin with Renosu taking out the A R Creswick Stakes at Flemington. Godolphin trainer James Cummings picked out Saturday’s 1200m Listed race for three-year-olds after Renosu was withdrawn from a Stakes race at Morphettville following a wide barrier draw. Returning to Melbourne and running well against older horse at Flemington on May… Read More »
Apprentice Zac Lloyd has celebrated an important first at Rosehill, booting home a winner at his maiden ride for the powerful Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott yard. The Tulloch Lodge trainers have been keen to secure Lloyd’s services for some time but given he is indentured to Godolphin and also has a… Read More »
The Leon and Troy Corstens -trained Dolphin Skin has boosted her value as a potential broodmare with a narrow victory in a Stakes race at Flemington. A $13,000 purchase at the New Zealand Ready To Run Sale last year, Dolphin Skin has recouped that outlay while adding Black Type to her pedigree with victory in the Taj… Read More »
Ciaron Maher and David Eustace have unearthed another talented import in Chorlton Lane, who they hope can continue to surge through the grades after his classy Rosehill win. The UK import made his Australian debut in Saturday’s Kia Ora Farnan Handicap (1300m) and despite getting a long way out of his… Read More »
