Barry Lockwood believes he and co-trainer Emma-Jane Vincent have five-year-old mare Miss Personality going well ahead of her first up run at Ipswich on Wednesday. A daughter of Lonhro and a $400,000 purchase at the 2022 Gold Coast Yearling Sale, Miss Personality has only managed six career starts, winning three, including when… Read More »
Trainer Grahame Begg is banking on experience under race condition on the Caulfield Heath circuit proving beneficial for Oman. The two-year-old daughter of Capitalist has already been to Caulfield Heath on three occasions and is set to head there again on Saturday to contest the Magic Millions VIC 2YO Classic… Read More »
A familiarisation workout at the scene for this Saturday’s Magic Millions Victorian 2YO Classic has Michael Kent Jnr’s confidence in Guest House high ahead of his long-awaited debut. The son of Home Affairs will return to Caulfield’s Heath track for the $250,000 event restricted to Magic Millions graduates. The $270,000… Read More »
Sydney’s lone metropolitan racing club, the Australian Turf Club, has been placed into administration. Racing New South Wales announced on Monday morning that it had taken the extreme step after not being satisfied during a Show Cause process that the ATC Board would be able to improve the club’s ‘serious’… Read More »
The $3 million Magic Millions Sunlight is the immediate goal for Group 2 winner Savvy Hallie ahead of a Sydney autumn carnival campaign. Trainer Brad Widdup confirmed the filly had been selected for a slot in the January 10 race at the Gold Coast and was well advanced in her… Read More »
Hong Kong superstar Romantic Warrior continues to re-write the record books having recorded an effortless victory to claim his fourth straight Hong Kong International Cup at Sha Tin on Sunday. The Danny Shum-trained gelding was clinical, settling third before coasting away from his rivals in the straight to post a… Read More »
Voyage Bubble may be seven years old but trainer Ricky Yiu will not hear of his six-time winning Group One galloper being anywhere near past his best. Yiu’s thinking was there in reality on the track as Voyage Bubble ($3.60) fought back from being headed with Zac Purton aboard in… Read More »
Fortune in Hong Kong favoured French-trained Sosie better than it did in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, and that was all the difference in winning the Hong Kong Vase. Third placed in the mile-and-a-half Arc after suffering interference before the home turn and having to carve home strong sectionals… Read More »
Sprint sensation Ka Ying Rising had little concern justifying his unbackable quote on Sunday when making light work of his rivals in the Hong Kong International Sprint (1200m). The shortest priced favourite ever at a HKIR meeting ($1.05), Ka Ying Rising joined Mr Stunning (’17 & ’18), Lord Kanaloa (’12… Read More »
Joe Pride had six horses in action across the country on Saturday and came away with two wins, three seconds and a third, including the quinella in the Listed Razor Sharp Handicap at Randwick. Weeping Woman ($2.60 fav) wore down barn mate Coal Crusher ($6) in the Sydney sprint to… Read More »
Tom Charlton was five years old when John O’Shea landed his first Group win in the 2000 Villiers Stakes, but the training partners were celebrating together when Yorkshire took out the corresponding race at Randwick on Saturday. It was O’Shea’s fourth success in the summer feature, now known as The… Read More »
Thomas Stockdale has channelled his inner Mark Zahra to guide Warnie to his biggest success in his career as a jockey. Stockdale produced a cool and calculated ride aboard the Ciaron Maher-trained galloper to claim the The Supernova (1400m) at Pakenham on Saturday. The Supernova was the second of two… Read More »
Local galloper Taramansour has turned around his form to give trainer Phillip Stokes his first win in the Pakenham Cup. Stokes, who runs a dual state operation with a stable at Morphettville, was an early arrival when the Pakenham base expanded in 2019 and has always coveted a Pakenham Cup… Read More »
Once the Hong Kong Sprint is run and if all probabilities come to fruition that Ka Ying Rising makes a mess of the opposition, David Hayes will turn from the hunted to the hunter in the Hong Kong Cup. Like Ka Ying Rising, Romantic Warrior looks to have the 2000-metre… Read More »
Coming to Hong Kong and being in the thick of the Asian racing has made Mark Newnham a better trainer, and he freely admits it. Equal with Caspar Fownes on 24 wins this season so far, the four-time group one winner in Sydney has a victory at the highest level… Read More »
Jean Van Overmeire’s decision to relinquish a book of rides at Newcastle for just one mount at Randwick has paid the ultimate dividend with Where’s The Circus scoring a boilover victory in the Inglis Nursery. Van Overmeire had partnered the filly, a $1250 online buy, to a recent barrier trial… Read More »
Docklands may not have won since Royal Ascot in June, but taking on top line company in the UK, France and Japan is no easy task. Add Hong Kong into the mix with the Group 1 Hong Kong Mile (1600m) at Sha Tin on Sunday, a turnaround could provide trainer… Read More »
A third Melbourne Cup may have eluded Joseph O’Brien last November, but if Al Riffa can channel the right pieces of Hong Kong Vase history, then a feature win at Sha Tin might make up for it. Also, unlike Melbourne where O’Brien had to attend the Breeders’ Cup meeting before… Read More »
Jenni The Fox may only be the winner of a maiden, but trainer Lucy Yeomans believes there is a big race success in the mare. However, Yeomans is realistic enough to know that is unlikely to come in The Supernova (1400m) at Pakenham on Saturday, but the trainer says the mare will not disgrace… Read More »
Trainers Emma-Lee and David Browne have decided to roll the dice one more time with Statuario in a bid to win their local Cup at Pakenham. The New Zealanders who have been in Victoria since April 2022, initially setting-up base at Cranbourne, have been at Pakenham since the start of the 2023-24 season…. Read More »
