Next month’s Bunbury Stakes (1400m) is the primary target for Oly’s Choice, but co-trainer Ben Pearce doesn’t discount the son of Demerit winning first up at Ascot on Saturday. After a few hiccups, Pearce and his brother Dan are relieved to have Oly’s Choice back at the races, launching his return… Read More »
A last start win signalling a return to form at just the right time could be the recipe for Victorian visitor Dazzling Lucy to upset the local favoured hopes at Hobart on Friday. Though it took the six-year-old mare three years to find herself in the winners’ circle since her victory… Read More »
Jamie Melham’s quest for a second-straight Blue Diamond Stakes success ramps up this weekend at Caulfield. The recently-married jockey, who won last year’s $2 million Group 1 on the late Hayasugi as Jamie Kah, will team up with untapped Godolphin colt Aleppo Pine in the colts and geldings Prelude and Gin Spirit… Read More »
Noted fresh performer World Alliance will spearhead Matthew Smith’s team for Randwick in what is shaping as a busy weekend for the trainer. Smith will spread his squad across three states this weekend in a quest to continue his strong start to the year, which leading into Thursday’s Scone meeting has… Read More »
Mr Brightside will forever be a special horse in the careers of Ben, Will and JD Hayes, but he is presented with a chance to break new ground for Lindsay Park at Caulfield this Saturday. The seven-year-old son of Bullbars will chase a ninth Group 1 win when he resumes in… Read More »
A form reference behind Golden Slipper favourite and Sydney’s benchmark two-year-old Wodeton is giving connections of Sanctified cause for optimism heading into the $2 million Inglis Millennium. The colt finished third to Wodeton on debut at Rosehill last month and while he was beaten seven lengths, co-trainer Sterling Alexiou felt the youngster… Read More »
Blue-blooded filly Kerber is on target to make her debut in stakes company at Randwick and nobody is more surprised than her trainer. A $1.15 million purchase, the daughter of champion stallion I Am Invincible out of multiple black-type winner Eloping unequivocally boasts a pedigree for success. But she also… Read More »
Top jockey Tim Clark says Mayfair only needs to reproduce his spring form to put himself in pole position for a first-up win in the Eskimo Prince Stakes at Randwick. The colt is a $4.40 third pick in early markets for Saturday’s Group 3 contest, behind $2.70 favourite Gatsby’s and the newly… Read More »
Palm Angel has almost six lengths to make up on My Gladiola from the Blue Diamond Preview, but trainer Jason Warren sees enough in his filly’s favour this weekend to bridge that gap significantly. The daughter of Starspangledbanner will round out her preparations for the $2 million Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes in… Read More »
The Darby Racing team is spending the back end of this week scouring Inglis’s Riverside Sales Complex in search of more Classic Yearling Sale stars and if its 2025 team turns out as good as last year’s cohort it will have done well. The Scott Darby-led operation is inspecting the… Read More »
Starting as a humble dairy farm, Darling View Thoroughbreds has blossomed into one of the most prominent stud farms in the State through the committed ambition of father-son duo Clive and Brent Atwell. “The business has been in the blood for a long time, my great grandfather Walter Atwell actually… Read More »
The Phillip Stokes-trained Tom has scored an emotional breakthrough victory for his connections at Sandown. Tom, who is named after a close friend of part-owner Jeremy Payne, did the right thing by his large legion of supporters in taking out the Sportsbet Jockey Watch Plate (1200m) on Saturday. Perfect record for… Read More »
Zac Lloyd and Tim Clark both made the trip to Warwick Farm for one ride apiece and they ensured it wasn’t wasted by taking out the opening two races. Lloyd worked hard for his pay cheque aboard the Matthew Smith-trained Idle Flyer ($1.35), the filly taking an age to reel in Metaphoricallly ($3.50)… Read More »
She’s taking on a giant challenge against a crack field of rivals, but don’t tell trainer Dan Morton that his Perth mare Super Smink is just making up the numbers in her interstate debut on Saturday. Daniel Morton is not sure if Super Smink can win the Group 1 C.F.Orr Stakes (1400m)… Read More »
Tyler Schiller has declared it will take a good horse to beat Victorian filly Price Tag in the $2 million Inglis Millennium, provided she adapts to the clockwise direction of racing. Price Tag assumed outright $4 betting apps favouritism after drawing barrier 11 on Tuesday, while several of the other leading fancies… Read More »
Having been sounded out to run in a rich restricted race in Sydney, trainer John Mcardle is staying in Melbourne with My Gladiola with a focus on a Group 1 two-year-old race. The $2 million Inglis Millennium (1100m) is run at Randwick on Saturday, as is the Group 2 fillies edition of… Read More »
Trainer Clinton Mcdonald is hoping to strike while the tracks are dry and intends to keep Angel Capital to a three-run autumn campaign. That campaign kicks off in the Group 2 Autumn Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday. McDonald said depending on the colt’s performance on Saturday, the Group 1 Futurity Stakes… Read More »
John O’Shea isn’t anticipating Linebacker being ring rusty when he resumes for the first time as a gelding in the Eskimo Prince Stakes at Randwick. The Group 1 placegetter was only seen twice in the spring, most recently when sixth in the Golden Rose after a coltish pre-race display that resulted in… Read More »
Knight’s Choice is poised to become the first Melbourne Cup winner to run in an All-Star Mile after impressing in a trial at the Sunshine Coast on Tuesday morning. The five-year-old made his first public appearance since winning last November’s Melbourne Cup in the 1000-metre hitout and accelerated impressively along the… Read More »
Trainer Jason Miller is confident Bonjoy can take the next step towards bigger goals against the big guns later in the year after enjoying a golden run with the emerging star mare. Bonjoy will be on show one more time in the Listed Detonator Stakes (1800m) and Miller hopes she can bow… Read More »
