Imperatriz’s season is now over but don’t expect to hear David Ellis now ramping up a campaign for her to be crowned Australia’s Champion Racehorse for the 2023/24 season. The five-year-old finished fourth in last Saturday’s T J Smith Stakes at Randwick won by Chain Of Lightning, her only unplaced… Read More »
A filly out of Group 1 winner Prompt Response put an exclamation mark on a red-letter day for star stallion Zoustar when she set a new mark for the highest-priced lot of the famous offering. The Widden Stud-prepared filly sold to prominent bloodstock agent James Harron for $2.2 million. We have… Read More »
Coolmore is selling the banner lot at this year’s Inglis Easter Yearling Sale but Tom Magnier also took time out to spend up himself on Sunday’s opening day. The Coolmore Australia boss paid $1.9 million for a colt by Zoustar out of three-time Group 1 runner-up Fundamentalist. The colt was offered… Read More »
Lindsay Park two-year-old Bold Bastille has a couple of rich assignments ahead of her before she enjoys a break leading into the spring. The first of those assignments for the Ben, Will and J D Hayes-trained filly is the $250,000 VOBIS Gold Rush (1000m) at Bendigo on Saturday which will be… Read More »
Golden Slipper winner Lady Of Camelot is scheduled to run in the Percy Sykes Stakes on Day 2 of The Championships after being scratched from the Sires’ Produce Stakes. Lady Of Camelot will not be in one of the four Group 1 races but the Golden Slipper winner still shapes as… Read More »
Riff Rocket has raced to a rare staying double and in the process delivered Sydney’s premier trainer Chris Waller with his first ATC Australian Derby success at Randwick. Waller admitted it had been a source of a little frustration that he had yet to train the winner of the time-honoured Australian Derby… Read More »
A significant weight drop has paved the way to Here To Shock landing a second win in Stakes company producing a strong finishing burst at Caulfield. Here To Shock gave Lindsay Park trainers Ben, Will and J D Hayes their first win in the Group 3 Victoria Handicap (1400m) on Saturday…. Read More »
Les Bridge has done it again. The 85-year-old Hall Of Fame trainer has won a Golden Slipper with Sir Dapper, a Melbourne Cup with Kensei, an Everest with Classique Legend and now a second Doncaster with Celestial Legend, 39 years after Row Of Waves gave him his first. But as good as those horses… Read More »
Chain Of Lightning has relished the rain-affected conditions at Randwick to upset a host of Australasia’s best sprinters in the Group 1 TJ Smith Stakes. The narrow victory by the mare in Saturday’s $3 million sprint on a heavy-rated track gave trainer Peter Moody his fourth victory in Sydney’s feature open-age sprint… Read More »
Trainers David and Coral Feek will have some thinking to do in coming weeks after the win of Gold Wolf at Caulfield. Gold Wolf proved the superior staying three-year-old when he scored a shock win in the Listed Galilee Series Final (2400m) on Saturday. Ridden by Neil Farley, Gold Wolf ($41) scored by a… Read More »
Fillies have continued their dominance of the country’s Group One two-year-old races with Manaal nailing Godolphin’s Traffic Warden in the final bounds to capture the ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes at Randwick. The filly started at $5.50 with betting apps and atoned for a luckless run from a wide draw in the Golden… Read More »
Imported stayer Circle Of Fire has firmed to the second line of Sydney Cup betting after securing a ballot exemption into the Group 1 race with a narrow-but-impressive victory in the Chairman’s Quality at Randwick. In his third Australian start, the English import was sent out the $3.60 betting app favourite in… Read More »
New Zealand-bred gelding Feroce will forever hold a special place in the stable of Dominic Sutton after his on-pace victory at Caulfield. The $160,000 Karaka Ready To Run purchase provided Sutton with his first metropolitan winner when successful in the Vale John Russell (1200m) on Saturday. Feroce also provided Sutton with his… Read More »
Rhys Radford never hides his admiration for Comfort Me, an outside chance of causing a big upset on his resumption in the Group 3 Roma Cup (1100m) at Ascot on Saturday. Radford considers the clash between Comfort Me and glamour mare Amelia’s Jewel as a David versus Goliath battle, but he’s confident his… Read More »
It is going on two-and-a-half years since former Singapore galloper The Inferno scored his solitary Australian victory. After eight wins in Singapore from nine starts, including that country’s biggest sprint, the Lion City Cup, The Inferno came to Australia with great expectations. It all went pear-shaped in The Inferno’s first Australian… Read More »
Trainer Danny O’Brien is expecting a set of blinkers and a different race shape to spark Carini back into winning form at Caulfield. French-bred Carini heads to the Group 3 Easter Cup (2000m) on Saturday looking to land a second win in Australia. After starting his career in France, securing three… Read More »
Private Eye won’t line up in the TJ Smith Stakes if the track is heavy, but two of his stablemates will have their chances enhanced if conditions at Randwick continue to deteriorate. Mazu and Coal Crusher both boast superior wet track form, the former winning four of his six starts on… Read More »
Ciaron Maher and Chris Waller are preparing to gang tackle the Doncaster Mile with the leading trainers set to have up to a dozen runners between them. Both Maher and Waller each have five runners safely in the 20-horse field, along with an emergency apiece. Maher’s contingent includes $3.80 betting site favourite… Read More »
Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young won’t be making the same mistake twice when they head to the Australian Derby at Randwick. Just as he did in the Rosehill Guineas at his most recent outing, Immediacy has drawn a wide alley. For Saturday’s Group 1 Derby over 2400m, Immediacy has drawn gate… Read More »
While some of the opposition may have the runs on the board as far as black-type is concerned, Shane Nichols brings Climate Change to Adelaide on Saturday confident that his two-year-old’s race experience can bely her standing in the market. Climate Change lines up in the Listed Dequetteville Stakes (1000m) at Morphettville… Read More »
