Champion jockey James Mcdonald did not waste any time getting back in the saddle after winning his first Magic Millions 2YO Classic aboard Coolangatta. Two days after collecting the big prize on the Gold Coast, McDonald was aboard champion sprinter Nature Strip in his first trial after a successful spring campaign at… Read More »
It was announced in WA today that Willie Pike, that state’s best jockey, will move to Sydney. He, like Novak Djokovic, remains an ardent non-vaccinated advocate, and as such, believes he will be allowed to ride in NSW as an unvaccinated athlete. Bringing that claim into question was a message… Read More »
Cranbourne-based trainer Julius Sandhu will be hoping to notch a city winner on consecutive Saturdays as Sharp Response is likely to line up in the Benchmark 70 Handicap over 1200 metres. After two-year-old Lofty Strike struck for the stable on debut at Flemington on Saturday at $14 and beating the well-fancied English… Read More »
They’ve had six winners (26%) from 23 runners since New Year’s Eve and the Rosehill training combination of Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou will be looking to continue that momentum with three gallopers nominated for this Saturday’s Carrington Stakes meeting at Royal Randwick. After a somewhat disappointing performance in the… Read More »
Simon Miller has a range of options to consider, but he’s almost certain to keep glamour mare Miss Conteki racing in Perth for the remainder of the year. Group 1 races on the eastern seaboard were put on the agenda after the improving five-year-old scored another scintillating win at Ascot… Read More »
Having been beaten a lip in the Magic Millions Cup, the Annabel Neasham-trained Holyfield spearheads the nominations, as black type racing returns to Sydney. Going down in a photo finish to Magic Millions Day specialist Eleven Eleven, Holyfield could return to Sydney, where he was a track and trip winner… Read More »
A return to stakes company is on the cards for Decent Raine after making light work of her opposition in the Furphy Refreshing Ale Trophy (1400m) at Flemington on Saturday. The daughter of Dissident was narrowly beaten in the Listed Twilight Glow at Caulfield two starts ago, before a very… Read More »
Punters got it spot on in the feature at the Gold Coast, a straight track specialist continued his love affair with the course while it was a Hi 5 for Barend Vorster at Murray Bridge. All that and more in this weeks edition of ‘The Good, The Bad and The… Read More »
Peter and Paul Snowden have gone back-to-back in the Magic Millions three-year-old Guineas as King Of Sparta mowed down his rivals to win the rich $2million Magic Millions Guineas. After winning the 2021 renewal with Aim, they returned to the scene of the crime with the son of I Am… Read More »
The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained Coolangatta has fended off a fast-finishing Russian Conquest to win the $2 million Magic Millions 2YO Classic. It took a brave pre-corner move from jockey James McDonald, but the Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-prepared two-year-old filly Coolangatta ($1.95F) has proven too strong for her rivals… Read More »
Straight track specialist Halvorsen has won his second Group 3 Standish Handicap (1200m) in three years after a gutsy effort to claim the $250,000 feature by a long head. It’s the six-year-old’s third stakes win, adding to his Century Stakes (Listed, 1000m) win first-up this campaign and the 2020 renewal of… Read More »
Kembla Grange trainer Theresa Bateup knows a bargain when she sees one. Her Lope De Vega mare Monegal ($18) only set the stable back $3,000 at the Scone sales, but has now taken her earnings over the $460,000 mark with another victory at Rosehill Gardens. The six-year-old did it easy on… Read More »
You’d love to own a stable full of horses like the Lyle Chandler-trained Banju ($5.50F) who has four wins and eight placings from just 15 outings. He has continued to pick up a cheque for his connections by giving them a galloping lesson in the Highway Handicap at Rosehill Gardens…. Read More »
That’s how long it had been since the Ben & Jd Hayes – trained Dark Dream last won, 1041 days to be exact, but the drought came to an end in the California Memory Living Legends Plate (1700m). The 2018 Group 1 Queensland Derby winner was formerly trained by Kerry Parker before being sold… Read More »
She has been opening up the wallet at the Gold Coast Magic Millions sale this week, and Warwick Farm trainer Annabel Neasham has shown what she can achieve with a juvenile by training three of the first four past the post in the two-year-old handicap at Rosehill Gardens. Her Deep… Read More »
While the Magic Millions shines brightest on the Gold Coast, it was a sales graduate that hit the board first in Melbourne as Lofty Strike taking out the first event at Flemington. A $280,000 purchase in 2021, the son of Snitzel is the second foal out of 2013 Golden Slipper… Read More »
Could the Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young trained Cusack be the horse who has slipped under the punters guard for the $2 million Magic Millions Two-Year-Old Classic? The chances of the chestnut colt have almost been devoid of all publicity and he currently sits on the $29 mark in the… Read More »
Danny Bougoure will saddle the unbeaten Indiscreetly in the $2 million Three-Year-Old Guineas at the Gold Coast on Saturday. The good-looking filly booked her place in the big race by landing three wins from three starts, but there was a time when any thought of her taking up a place… Read More »
The Magic Millions Race-day at the Gold Coast has ben kind to trainer Greg Hickman over the years, to the degree that it should be a pre-requisite for those who study form to see what he has in the 2022 edition of the event. Enter Eleven Eleven, a five-year-old gelding… Read More »
Scone trainer Lyle Chandler is confident Banju can replicate his efforts from a fortnight ago and collect a second Highway victory at Rosehill on Saturday. In what was a dogged effort displayed by Banju a fortnight ago when taking out the 1400m Highway handicap, trainer Lyle Chandler expects his gelding to once… Read More »
