In-form Sydney jockey Tim Clark will be the new rider for Brisbane sprinter Zoustyle when he resumes at Rosehill. Zoustyle will run in Saturday’s Group Three Maurice McCarten Stakes (1100m), his first start since running midfield at Caulfield in October. The gelding has won six of his Brisbane starts but… Read More »
Moana Jewel has qualified for the Provincial Championship final a week after her luckless first attempt. The mare beat one runner home in the qualifying heat at Newcastle last Saturday after a slow start and a traffic jam. Trainer Tracey Bartley decided to back her up at Hawkesbury on Saturday… Read More »
Glen Boss has completed a straight track stakes race double guiding Sangria to a narrow victory at Flemington. Sangria’s win in the Listed Incognitus Stakes (1100m) came after Bivouac had earlier on Saturday recorded an impressive victory in the Group One Newmarket Handicap (1200m). “Super Saturday is one of those… Read More »
Brett Prebble’s win in the Group Two VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes at Flemington on Lunar Fox has also come at a cost with the jockey suspended for careless riding. Prebble was one of two riders suspended out of Saturday’s 1400m race for two-year-olds, with Dwayne Dunn also hit with a… Read More »
Hugh Bowman was not sold on riding Nettoyer in the Aspiration Quality but luckily for him, his manager convinced him otherwise. The top jockey found out why at Randwick on Saturday with the Wendy Roche-trained mare producing a blistering finish from last to swamp her rivals and go back-to-back in… Read More »
Trainer Robert Heathcote continued his outstanding run of success with a double that included a genuine winter carnival horse at Eagle Farm. Heathcote had a double with Emerald Kingdom ($1.45) in the Open (1400m) and Piltvice ($3.30) who won the Benchmark 75 (1600m). The Eagle Farm-based trainer has had a… Read More »
Trainer Chris Waller is keeping a lid on autumn goals for Shared Ambition who has claimed a Listed win at Randwick. The former Irish horse has now won four races in Australia and led in a stable trifecta on Saturday when he beat Group One winner Youngstar and wet-tracker Wu… Read More »
A win to Fifty Stars in the Group One Australian Cup has added another memorable chapter into the Lindsay Park operation’s rich history in the time-honoured race at Flemington. The European-bred Fifty Stars brought up a 10th Australian Cup win for the Hayes family’s Lindsay Park training operation which was… Read More »
Group l racing was the central focus at both Flemington and Randwick, and did the Golden Slipper picture become much clearer?. All that and more in this weeks edition of ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’. KEY NEWS: Bostonian And Shadow Hero Continue Wonderful Records The Bostonian is near… Read More »
Mark Newnham says he will not be tempted to deviate from his plan to claim the three-year-old triple crown with Shadow Hero after the horse’s brilliant Group One Randwick Guineas win. Shadow Hero ($6) emerged from the pack to chase down Godolphin colt Microphone ($4.60 fav) by three-quarters of a… Read More »
In an ideal scenario, Nature Strip would have been in Melbourne adding the Newmarket Handicap to a Lightning Stakes win. But the enigmatic sprinter failed to run top three in the Lightning and was back in Sydney on Saturday for the Group Two Challenge Stakes, 20 minutes after Bivouac claimed… Read More »
The $7.5 million Golden Eagle shapes as a potential longer range target for exciting filly Rubisaki who has continued her rise with an impressive win in the Group Two Kewney Stakes at Flemington. Trained by Patrick Payne and ridden by Billy Egan, Rubisaki ($3 fav) gave most of her rivals… Read More »
In a season of outstanding three-year-olds, Godolphin colt Bivouac has stamped himself as possibly the best with a explosive victory in the Newmarket Handicap at Flemington. Godolphin managing director Vin Cox and jockey Glen Boss said Bivouac was outstanding in winning the time-honoured sprint over the straight 1200m course on… Read More »
New Zealand-trained horses have continued their early dominance of Sydney’s Group One autumn races with The Bostonian scoring a bulldog-like win in the Canterbury Stakes at Randwick. The Kiwis have now won the first three elite races of the carnival after trainer Jamie Richards last week landed a Group One… Read More »
Promising two-year-old Tumbler Ridge lived up to his early season potential when he broke his maiden status and landed some big bets in winning at Eagle Farm. Backed from $7 early in the week to $3, Tumbler Ridge scored by a half length to the brave Bellissimi Amici ($4.60) in… Read More »
Four-year-old Wild Planet has justified his short quote in the March Stakes, relishing a drop back in grade to win comfortably. Wild Planet was coming off a last-start fourth in the Group One Futurity Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield and got in to Saturday’s Listed race on the minimum weight of… Read More »
As one of the owners of Villami, trainer Gerald Ryan gets a bigger say than normal when it comes to plans for the filly. He pinpointed Saturday’s Listed Fireball Stakes (1100m) as a perfect start to her autumn campaign and knew he had made the right call a couple of… Read More »
Peter Snowden had a few ungodly thoughts in the run but Dame Giselle delivered the right result to win a messy renewal of the Reisling Stakes at Randwick. The stable hatched a plan to settle Dame Giselle outside the lead but when Tim Clark slowed the tempo on Supreme Idea… Read More »
Paint The Town Two has relished the soft ground in recording a career-high victory at Flemington. The former New Zealand mare scored her sixth victory when successful in the Group Three Schweppervescence Trophy (1600m), her first in stakes company. Ridden by Jamie Kah, Paint The Town Two ($26) scored by… Read More »
Farnan has rocketed to the top of Golden Slipper markets after demolishing a Todman Stakes field boasting Blue Diamond Stakes winner Tagaloa. The Tulloch Lodge youngster controlled the race from the front and quickly beat off the challenge of Blaze A Trail, accelerating clear to win by 1-3/4 lengths over… Read More »
