Tony McEvoy is methodical in the preparation of his horses heading towards feature races. So it was with surprise that Despatch, who runs in Saturday’s Group One Memsie Stakes at Caulfield, got under the trainer’s guard at his first-up run in Adelaide. Despatch finished fourth in the Group Three Spring… Read More »
Peter and Paul Snowden have six horses engaged for the San Domenico Stakes meeting at Rosehill but their team could be halved if the forecast rain tips the track into the heavy range. The training partnership has confirmed proven wet track performer Anaheed will take her place in the San… Read More »
Co-trainer Wayne Hawkes is banking on the warmer weather in Sydney giving Sylvia’s Mother an edge ahead of a stakes race at Caulfield. A last-start winner at Flemington, Sylvia’s Mother returned to Sydney shortly after to prepare for Saturday’s Group Three Cockram Stakes. Sylvia’s Mother arrived at Hawkes Racing’s Flemington… Read More »
There is unlikely to be a more excited jockey at Rosehill than Andrew Adkins, who makes his return to metropolitan racing after more than four months on the sidelines. Adkins suffered serious injuries in a race fall at Randwick in April, fracturing three vertebrae, his sternum, cheekbone, nose and some… Read More »
Last year’s Melbourne Cup winner Cross Counter is one of 39 overseas-trained entries among 152 nominations for the next running of the $8 million race. Fellow English horses Marmelo and A Prince Of Arran, second and third in 2018, have also been nominated. Godolphin’s Cross Counter is among 143 entries… Read More »
The raw ability of Hawkes Racing’s Exceedance has already been on public display, now the colt faces his next challenge – proving his class. He has an immediate opportunity to do that in Saturday’s Group Three San Domenico Stakes (1100m) at Rosehill against a small but quality field that boasts… Read More »
Having passed all the checks and balances, Black Heart Bart is ready to make his reappearance in the Memsie Stakes at Caulfield. Retired after finishing 16th in last year’s Toorak Handicap when trained by Darren Weir, Black Heart Bart resumes in Saturday’s Group One Memsie Stakes which he won in… Read More »
In-form trainer Steve O’Dea has doubled his chances of continuing his success for the Proven Thoroughbreds syndicate by splitting Reckless Choice and So Spirited at Eagle Farm. O’Dea accepted with both in Saturday’s Ariat Country Music Open Handicap (1400m) and the Class Six (1400m). After studying the fields, O’Dea left… Read More »
Tye Angland has expressed his gratitude to the Kwok family, the owners of champion Hong Kong galloper Beauty Generation, following their $A1 million gift to his family. Angland, who rode horses for the Kwoks in Australia and Hong Kong, became a quadriplegic after suffering spinal injuries in a race fall… Read More »
Warwick Farm trainer Gary Portelli hopes Michael Cahill is as much on the ball as the first time they met when the in-form jockey rides Single Bullet for the stable at Eagle Farm. Portelli has sent Single Bullet north for Saturday’s BRC Membership Open Handicap in search of a 1000m-race… Read More »
Super Seth is high in Caulfield Guineas calculations and the colt gets the chance to show why when he resumes in the McNeil Stakes. Saturday’s Group Three 1200m McNeil Stakes for three-year-olds at Caulfield has a field of nine, with the promising Anthony Freedman-trained stablemates Super Seth and King Of… Read More »
Premier Brisbane trainer Tony Gollan has had one spring carnival hiccup but hopes to get back on track with classy filly Niedorp at Eagle Farm. Gollan had expected to run Niedorp and Garibaldi in the two divisions of the three-year-old handicap over 1000 metres at Eagle Farm. Garibaldi received a… Read More »
Top central Queensland apprentice Elyce Smith will make her Brisbane debut a year after being seriously injured in a fall. Smith, who is apprenticed to her father Fred Smith in Rockhampton, has been booked for three rides at Eagle Farm on the John Manzelmann trained Sensation Ally and Zoffany Rocket… Read More »
This is the most extraordinary story you will read today. We all saw those graphic, heart-warming pics of Trapeze Artist at Widden Stud last week when he was reintroduced to his former rider, the injured jockey Tye Angland. The horse bent down, sniffed him in his wheelchair and raised his… Read More »
Well-related Just Thinkin’ has taken his most progressive step in a sparingly raced career to make a winning start to a possible 2019 Victoria Derby campaign. A half-brother to the Group Three winner Thinkin’ Big, Just Thinkin’ broke through for his first win at his third start at Warwick Farm… Read More »
Rich Itch has started to repay the faith of trainer Shawn Mathrick recording a determined second victory at Sandown. An 11-start maiden before success at Sale on August 15, Rich Itch claimed back-to-back victories with Wednesday’s win in the Le Pine Funerals Handicap. Mathrick headed to Sandown races confident he… Read More »
Melbourne Cup-winning trainer Mike Moroney has unveiled plans for the horse he hopes can give him a second win in the famous race. Moroney, who trained Brew to win in 2000, was in his native New Zealand on Wednesday as an ambassador for the Melbourne Cup tour with the trophy… Read More »
Group One races in Sydney and Melbourne figure in Mick Price’s spring hopes for lightly raced colt Shotmaker who makes his season return in the McNeil Stakes at Caulfield. Shotmaker was runner-up on debut in the Blue Diamond colts and geldings Prelude in February before finishing 11th in the Group… Read More »
Having been to the fore in last season’s two-year-old races, Godolphin is now looking to the team to step up at three. Sheikh Mohammed’s royal blue colours were carried to victory in four of Australia’s five Group One races for juveniles in 2018/19. Bivouac did not make the elite level… Read More »
Vega Magic is set to front up on Memsie Stakes day for the third straight year at Caulfield but this time the dual Group One winner will not be contesting the day’s feature race. Now a seven-year-old, Vega Magic was a dominant winner of the weight-for-age Group One Memsie (1400m)… Read More »
