Ryan Jukes

• Black Caviar scares off Valley rivals

  Black Caviar will face only four rivals when she goes for her 15th straight win in Saturday’s Group Two Schweppes Stakes at Moonee Valley.

   
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  Dunaden wins 2011 Geelong Cup

  The French have claimed the Group Three Geelong Cup for the second consecutive year with Dunaden sweeping to an emphatic victory on Wednesday.

   
• Cox Plate – What you need to know

  Some facts about the Group One $3 million WS Cox Plate (2040m) at Moonee Valley on Saturday:

   
• Oliver keen on Harmonium

  Damien Oliver knows what it takes to win the Cox Plate and believes his mount on Saturday, imported galloper Glass Harmonium, is the right kind of horse to give him his third success in Australasia’s weight-for-age championship.

   
• Skating On Ice to determine own future

  Gold Coast trainer Les Kelly will let talented mare Skating On Ice determine her own future after she makes her comeback at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

   
• Juvenile race a family affair

  Two sets of father and son trainers will engage in a “battle of the babies” when they start rival runners in the two-year-old race at Rosehill on Saturday.

   
• Villiers target for Somepin Anypin

  Somepin Anypin is about to have the stakes raised in a spring campaign which could continue through to the start of summer.

   
• Alcopop out of the spring

  The spring carnival is over for Alcopop who has been found to have a slab fracture of the near-fore knee which may require surgery.

   
• Americain within five kilos of second Cup

  With two weeks remaining only five kilograms and the assessment of his jockey stands between the French stayer Americain and a second Melbourne Cup.

   
• Lofty summer goals for Legsman

  Form around a genuine Melbourne Cup fancy has trainer John O’Shea looking forward to the summer with honest stayer Legsman.

   
• LNP to plough money into country racing

  Queensland’s Liberal National Party (LNP) says it’ll spend $1 million on 20 extra country race meetings if it wins government.

   
• Hughes appeal set for next week

  Richard Hughes’ appeal against the five-day ban he was handed at Salisbury earlier this month will now be heard next week.

   
• Rain primed for Far East adventure

  Dancing Rain will head off to Japan later this month to continue her glittering season in the Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup.

   
• 2011 Cox Plate odds comparison

  Just Horse Racing has compiled an easy to read odds comparison for the Group 1 Cox Plave over 2040 metres at Moonee Valley racecourse showing the markets from each of Australia’s best online bookmakers. Get the best odds now.

   
• Zabeelionaire on the way up

  Trainer Leon Corstens remains confident that Zabeelionaire is a quality stayer in the making and will get his chance to prove it in the Norman Robinson Stakes at Caulfield.

   
• Cumani’s Cup pair get barrier practice

  The Luca Cumani stable has heeded the concerns of local jockeys and resorted to giving Manighar and Drunken Sailor barrier practice two days out from the Caulfield Cup.

   
• Breeders’ Cup Dream lives on

  Dream Ahead could have one last hurrah in the Breeders’ Cup Mile.

   
• Changes for Precedence in Cup

  Bart Cummings has tinkered with Precedence’s gear in a bid to return the stayer to top form for Saturday’s $2.5 million Caulfield Cup.

   
• 2011 Caulfield Cup odds comparison

  Just Horse Racing has compiled an easy to read odds comparison for the Group 1 Caulfield Cup over 2400 metres at Caulfield racecourse showing the markets from each of Australia’s best online bookmakers. Get the best odds now.

   
• Cassidy predicts big future for Symbol

  This year’s staying features in Melbourne have come around too soon for Western Symbol but champion jockey Jim Cassidy expects to see the promising stayer there this time next year.