GROUP ONE COOLMORE CLASSIC 1500m, $600,000, Fillies and Mares HISTORY: * First race: 1973 (won by Miss Personality) * Notable winners: Princess Talaria (1978), Emancipation (1984), Skating (1993), Tuesday Joy (2007) and Typhoon Tracy (2009) * The late Max Lees trained five winners – Satin Sand (1986), Quicksilver Cindy (1991),… Read More »
Calliope can prove her Gold Slipper credentials in the Magic Night Stakes at Rosehill after missing her scheduled lead-up. The Godolphin filly was scratched from the Reisling Stakes when she got her foot over the barrier partition. She now runs on Saturday, a week out from the $3.5 million Golden… Read More »
Chautauqua is the $2.40 favourite to join a select group of horses to carry 58kg or more to victory in the Newmarket Handicap. Lightning Stakes winner Chautauqua headlines the field of 11 for Saturday’s Group One 1200m handicap at Flemington with three-year-old Japonisme considered the biggest danger at $4.20. If… Read More »
Stakeswinner Sacred Eye will run in the Phar Lap Stakes against her own age at Rosehill in preference to a Group Three race in Melbourne. Co-trainer David Hayes said three-year-old Sacred Eye would contest Saturday’s Group Two Phar Lap Stakes at Rosehill instead of the Schweppervescence Trophy for fillies and… Read More »
In a week when the odds have shortened dramatically about John Singleton winning Sydney’s signature horse race, the businessman is also looking good to land one of the turf’s most prized Classics. Singleton races Kiss And Make Up, the Gai Waterhouse-trained colt who burst into Golden Slipper reckoning with his… Read More »
Bede Murray is being remembered as superior horseman and a man of the people. The popular NSW South Coast trainer died overnight on Tuesday at the age of 80 after a year-long battle with cancer. The trainer of multiple Group One winners including age group champions Victory Vein and Universal… Read More »
Andrew Noblet is banking on a gear change to help Super Cash overcome a drop in distance for a Listed race at Flemington. Super Cash will wear blinkers when she heads to the Goodwood Racecourse Trophy over 1100m on Saturday instead of travelling to Adelaide for a 1200m three-year-old race… Read More »
Toowoomba apprentice Brooke Stower has claimed the Queensland leg of the National Apprentices Series aboard the Barry Baldwin-trained Fleur D’Orage. Fleur D’Orage ($10) made it three wins on wet tracks on Wednesday when she beat the $3 favourite Dee Nine Elle ridden by Western Australia’s Clint Johnston-Porter by a length… Read More »
Brigadoon Rise has enhanced her standing even further with trainer Peter Snowden, winning at Warwick Farm at the expense of an odds-on favourite. In a result that not even Snowden was confident to predict despite $31 to $26 support, Brigadoon Rise secured a rails run for Kerrin McEvoy to win… Read More »
Soviet Secret has been specifically aimed at the Thoroughbred Breeders Stakes at Flemington and trainer Sam Pritchard-Gordon believes that could give the filly an edge over some well-performed opposition. “I think the advantage she has over her rivals is that we targeted this race from a long way out,” Pritchard-Gordon… Read More »
Thomas Huet’s willingness to ride all over NSW has earned him the mount on Queenslander Rudy in the Group Two Ajax Stakes. Rudy will be attempting to win his first race since the Group Two Villiers at Randwick in December 2014 when he tackles Saturday’s Ajax Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill…. Read More »
Jacqui’s Joy faces a steep class rise as she attempts to keep her unbeaten Australian record intact at Flemington. The former New Zealand filly won her Australian debut at Kilmore before graduating to successive wins at Caulfield over summer. She now steps up to Group Two level in the Kewney… Read More »
Apprentice jockey Jye McNeil has picked up a G1 ride in the 2016 Newmarket Handicap on Saturday. Jye McNeil will ride Secret Agenda at 50kg. Secret Angena is currently a $15 chance in the race with Sportsbet.com.au View the current Newmarket Handicap odds
Three-year-old filly Secret Agenda has been a last-minute addition to the Newmarket Handicap against a field of more seasoned sprinters. After trackwork on Tuesday trainer Mick Price favoured running the filly against her own age in the Goodwood Racecourse Trophy at Flemington on Saturday. But a small field and the… Read More »
She was the right horse in the wrong place when rated desperately unlucky in the only Group One appearance of her career. But if it is some consolation to trainer Ciaron Maher, Azkadellia’s Myer Classic defeat when a high-profile victim of a track bias stands a good chance of working… Read More »
Happy Trails will try to snap a 16-month absence from the winner’s stall when he has another crack at an Australian Cup at Flemington. The Paul Beshara-trained eight-year-old hasn’t won in 14 starts since his 2014 Group One Mackinnon Stakes victory over the 2000m at Flemington. He will attempt to… Read More »
Multiple stakes winner Sir Moments is again on the a path to his first Group One win nearly a year after connections had hoped he could join the elite class. Sir Moments has won five stakes races including the 2014 Group Two Queensland Guineas and trainer Steve O’Dea is sure… Read More »
Two races in NSW this week have been renamed to honour popular South Coast trainer Bede Murray who has died aged 80. On hearing of his death on Wednesday, racing officials put Murray’s name to the Provincial Championship Qualifier at his home track, Kembla Grange. Murray won the inaugural $400,000… Read More »
Favourite Bow Creek will jump from the outside barrier in the Australian Cup at Flemington. The Godolphin galloper faces 10 opponents in the Group One race over 2000m on Saturday. Our Ivanhowe has drawn the inside gate with last year’s runner-up Extra Zero, one of three runners for the David… Read More »
Coolmore Classic favourite Ghisoni has drawn barrier eight of 13 for her attempt to become the first three-year-old filly to win the race in seven years. Melbourne mare Politeness will start from the outside gate while topweight Lucia Valentina jumps from seven. Typhoon Tracy in 2009 was the last three-year-old… Read More »
