Alligator Blood’s growing popularity is evidenced by his lead in the voting for the All-Star Mile and his trainer David Vandyke says it is a privilege to have the budding star in his care. The winner of eight of his nine starts, Alligator Blood is back in Melbourne for a… Read More »
Expensive colt Xerri has a bit to live up to when he makes his debut at Eagle Farm. Co-trainers Toby and Trent Edmonds have backed their good opinion of Xerri by accepting with him in the $125,000 QTIS Two-Year-Old Handicap (1000m) at Eagle Farm. There is a restriction on the… Read More »
Favourite Alizee is in doubt for the Group Two Apollo Stakes at Randwick with Godolphin reconsidering whether to run her on a heavy track. Alizee has performed on slow ground but she was well beaten at her only try in more testing going as a two-year-old. With Randwick rated in… Read More »
After saddling Alabama Express to an upset win in the first Group One race of the year, trainer Mike Moroney runs Tofane in the Lightning Stakes. Three-year-old Alabama Express beat the older horses in last Saturday’s C F Orr Stakes and the lightly raced Tofane takes on some of the… Read More »
Fresh from claiming one of the autumn’s richest juvenile races, co-trainers Richard and Michael Freedman will turn their attention to qualifying Ticket To Ride for the Golden Slipper. Prime Star came up trumps in Wednesday’s reprogrammed $2 million Inglis Millennium at Warwick Farm, a timely boost for the training partnership… Read More »
The treasured 1992 W.S. Cox Plate trophy won by Super Impose, in possession of managing owner Chris Biggins (pictured), is being auctioned to raise funds for the Victorian Bushfire Appeal. All funds will be distributed directly by the ownership group to those impacted by the fires in the Gippsland area…. Read More »
The Brisbane Racing Club is confident Eagle Farm will at the worst have a soft surface despite being hammered by 325mm of rain in the past 10 days. The Doomben meeting on Thursday was abandoned after 66mm of rain fell overnight flooding the already saturated course proper. But Eagle Farm,… Read More »
Promising three-year-old Eric The Eel will begin his road to the Sydney autumn carnival at Eagle Farm despite drawing wide in a restricted race. The gelding has the outside barrier in Saturday’s Class Three Plate (1200m) but trainer Stuart Kendrick does not think it will be a disadvantage. Eric The… Read More »
Brisbane’s wet weather has forced promising stayer Slow Hands into an unscheduled rematch with his last-start conqueror The Kingdom. Trainer Kelly Schweida had planned to run Slow Hands at Doomben on Thursday but the meeting was called off after heavy overnight rain. Doomben has been soaked by more than 320mm… Read More »
Racing at Doomben has been called off because the track is saturated but the upcoming meeting at nearby Eagle Farm will go ahead. Stewards inspected Doomben on Thursday morning and said more than 60mm overnight had made the track unraceable. Doomben has received around 320mm in the past week. The… Read More »
A good day at the office could have been even bigger with a slice of luck for former New Zealand trainers Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young. A Sandown double on Wednesday was small consolation for a bigger prize in Sydney that slipped through their grasp. Larimer Street was beaten a… Read More »
Cloudbreaker may not be in the top echelon of two-year-olds within the Lindsay Park stable but she does possess an attribute trainers love – a will to win that was on display at Sandown. Lindsay Park raised the bar to city class on Wednesday in the Ladbrokes Plate (1300m) after… Read More »
Three of Sydney’s leading jockeys will miss key carnival mounts after being suspended at Warwick Farm. Unless he is successful in an intended appeal, Tommy Berry has been ruled out of the ride on Golden Slipper favourite Cellsabeel if she runs in the Silver Slipper on Saturday week and Libertini… Read More »
After beginning her career with back-to-back wins in NSW, unbeaten filly Katalin is set for her biggest test yet when she makes her Melbourne and stakes debut at Flemington. The James Cummings-trained, Godolphin-owned three-year-old Katalin has tightened from $3.90 to $2.60 favourite with the TAB in an early market for… Read More »
An early-morning track inspection will decide the fate of the Doomben meeting on Thursday. Stewards and course manager Jim Roberts walked the track on Wednesday afternoon and rated it a heavy 10. A further 14mm fell at Doomben on Wednesday bringing the total in the past 10 days to more… Read More »
Despite his outsider status in the Lightning Stakes at Flemington, co-trainer Calvin McEvoy insists Despatch is worthy of his place in the Group One sprint. But McEvoy, who trains in partnership with his father Tony, is under no illusion about the task confronting Despatch on Saturday up against fellow Group… Read More »
Despite one of the potential headline acts taking a different path, the Group Three C S Hayes Stakes at Flemington still has plenty of star power from across Australasia and looms as an exciting entree to the Australian Guineas. Caulfield Guineas winner Super Seth was not an acceptor on Wednesday… Read More »
Brenton Avdulla has enjoyed a welcome change of luck with Godolphin’s Gaulois fighting back to score a tenacious win at Warwick Farm. Avdulla had a testing start to the day when he was narrowly beaten aboard Bella Nipotina in the $2 million Inglis Millennium before his ride in the $1… Read More »
Victorian jockey Billy Egan has guided the Patrick Payne-trained Rubisaki to an impressive win in the $1 million Inglis Sprint-3YOs at Warwick Farm but he won’t be hanging around to celebrate. Just hours after riding at Sydney’s Wednesday meeting, the state-hopping hoop will be on a flight back to Melbourne… Read More »
The race morning scratching of odds-on favourite Cellsabeel has paved the way for in-form jockey Tom Marquand to land his biggest payday, winning the $2 million Inglis Millennium aboard Prime Star. The 1100-metre feature was added to the Wednesday program after its scheduled Saturday timeslot was washed out. The date… Read More »
