This Saturday’s Tour d’Horse Sprint at Caulfield is not the race Bustling was purchased for, but Mick Price and his co-trainer Michael Kent Jnr are beyond being picky with the former Western Australian. The 1000-metre benchmark 84 worth $130,000 will be the four-year-old’s first start in almost 20 months. Bustling’s… Read More »
Dual Cups winner Half Yours will take the next step on his winter campaign when he heads to the Gold Coast. The Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup winner runs in the Group 2 A D Hollindale Stakes (1800m) on Saturday, his second outing since winning the Melbourne Cup last November. The Tony and Calvin… Read More »
A progressive horse on an upward spiral, a dual Group placegetter mixing form, and an import with untapped potential comprise Chris Waller’s team for the $500,000 The Coast at Gosford, and the champion trainer can make a case for all three. Rotagilla arrives at Saturday’s showpiece in form after a… Read More »
Trainer Tom Dabernig has finally got the monkey off his back with a feature race win in his hometown of Warrnambool. Oliveanotherday took out the major sprint of the Warrnambool Three-Day Carnival when successful in the Listed Wangoom Handicap (1200m) on Wednesday. Dabernig left the safety of Lindsay Park to… Read More »
Juveniles Uncertain Glory and La Barrita had varying fortunes at Warwick Farm, but both could find themselves in Queensland for the winter. A two-year-old fillies maiden at Warwick Farm could yet prove a key form reference for the Brisbane winter carnival with the winner and third placegetter both likely to… Read More »
Trainer John Leek has been competing at Warrnambool since the late 1980’s and says nothing can beat the ‘Bool. Leek took two jumpers to the famous three-day Carnival and after Fengarada won on the opening day, The Storyteller took out the feature hurdle, the Galleywood Hurdle (3200m) on Wednesday. Both were ridden by Luca Remondet who rode… Read More »
With the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale at the Gold Coast upcoming, the connections of Aviatress had been planning a dual Group 1 assault in Adelaide. But a hiccup on the eve of the mare’s first assignment in the Robert Sangster Stakes (1200m) at Morphettville on April 25 put an end… Read More »
Trainer Patrick Ryan has felt the exhilaration of winning his hometown Cup and would like to feel that again when Ferago runs at Warrnambool. Ryan won the first Warrnambool Cup after it achieved Listed race status in 2008 with Video Star winning the 2350m race. What made the victory even… Read More »
Tony & Maddysen Sears had to wait a couple more days but the win was worth it as their stable star Yellow Brick won The Archer at Rockhampton. Initially supposed to be run on Sunday, the $1 million slot race was postponed due to issues with sections of the home… Read More »
The pre-race words of trainer Ciaron Maher were ringing in the ears of Steven Pateman as he brought Stern Idol to the bottom of the hill in the Brierly Steeplechase at Warrnambool. Pateman was aboard Tuesday’s $2.10 favourite at the Tozer Road double in the 3450m steeplechase, the feature race on the opening day… Read More »
Lindsay Park co-trainer Ben Hayes credited an important gear change and a jockey change for Tycoon Star’s recent Morphettville victory. Now the Lindsay Park team of Ben, Will and J D Hayes are hoping to parlay that success into a Group 1 victory when Tycoon Star heads to The Goodwood (1200m) at… Read More »
Mick Price and Michael Kent Jr have had to wait longer than they would have liked to get La Fracas back onto a Heavy track, but they’ve found one at Warrnambool. The mudlark will be out to maintain his unbeaten record on the wettest track condition in Wednesday’s $200,000 Listed… Read More »
European galloper Portland is still searching for his first win in Australia, but trainer Matthew Smith is convinced it isn’t far away. The import has put the writing on the wall at his past two starts with a late-closing third to Wootton Verni in the Neville Sellwood Stakes (2000m) and… Read More »
The complexion of this Saturday’s Group 2 Hollindale Stakes changed on Monday when Pride Of Jenni was confirmed for the $500,000 Group 2. The popular mare is among 20 nominations for the Gold Coast event, which also includes the past two Melbourne Cup winners, Knight’s Choice and Half Yours. The… Read More »
Stern Idol will be out to better his own Brierly Steeplechase record when he contests Tuesday’s $150,000 event, the headline event on Day 1 of the Warrnambool May Racing Carnival. The Ciaron Maher-trained import will carry 75kg in the 3450-metre event. The nine-year-old claimed the metric weight-carrying record from Some… Read More »
Trainer Cliff Brown is planning to press ahead with plans of a Queensland trip with his Group 1 winner Sepals. Victorious in the Group 1 Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield last spring, Sepals was Brown’s first Group 1 since he returned to Australia following a stint in Singapore… Read More »
As confident as Pat Carey is in Recon’s ability, after his first-up fifth placing in a Listed race at Flemington he dared not dream he would so soon be single-figure odds in a Group 1 event. But a stunning second-up win in the Hareeba Stakes virtually compelled the canny Mornington… Read More »
It is nine starts and almost 10 months since El Pensador last won a race, but Rex Lipp is optimistic his next victory could come at Ipswich on Monday. The son of So You Think will be out to back up a good first-up performance in the penultimate event, the… Read More »
For the second straight year, dual state-based trainer Phillip Stokes has won the South Australian Derby at Morphettville with a longshot. After Femminile scored at $19 last year, Wigmore, having just his second outing for Stokes, scored at $41 in the 2518m Classic for three-year-olds on Saturday. Providing Teo Nugent… Read More »
Last year’s Golden Mile is just one of the many races in Von Hauke’s career that Cliff Brown would rather forget and, for a tick over a minute on Saturday, he feared the 2026 edition would filed away in the same folder. But, unlike last year when the regularly-unlucky gelding… Read More »
