Trainer Joe Pride has no ambitions to get Ball Of Muscle into the $13 million Everest with his primary aim a Group One win. The gelding’s next chance will come in Friday’s Moir Stakes (1000m) at Moonee Valley where he will be up against boom sprinter Nature Strip who has… Read More »
Trainer Liam Birchley is already thinking of bigger things with Courseshewill, winner of the first two-year-old race of the season in Queensland. Courseshewill ($3.30) finished powerfully to beat Arnwood ($5) by three-quarters of a length with 1-1/2 lengths to Badoosh ($4.80) in Sunday’s Pat O’Shea Memorial Plate (1000m) at Toowoomba…. Read More »
Connections will resist the temptation to try to win New Zealand’s Group One spring weight-for-age triple crown with Melody Belle. The mare has won the first two legs, the Tarzino Trophy (1400m) and Saturday’s Windsor Park Plate (1600m) but trainer Jamie Richards says she will not step up to 2040m… Read More »
The Charlie Appleby stable has already struck early in the Melbourne spring carnival with Jungle Cat’s Group One win at Caulfield. Now Blair House gets his chance to add another when he makes his Australian debut in next Sunday’s Underwood Stakes at the same track. The first of the English… Read More »
Inaugural Everest winner Redzel has returned to full health and is on target to defend his title in the $13 million race at Randwick. The Peter and Paul Snowden-trained sprinter will have his final lead-up run in Saturday’s Premiere Stakes at Randwick. Redzel was a race morning scratching from The… Read More »
Leading Newcastle trainer Kris Lees is set to increase his presence in Queensland with a Gold Coast stable. The multiple Group One-winning trainer has gradually been building up his runners in Queensland this season. He is currently sixth on the Queensland metropolitan premiership with five winners from 15 runners. Lees… Read More »
The Autumn Sun confirmed himself as a world class colt while the love affair between Charlie Appleby and Australia continued. All that and more in this weeks edition of ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’. KEY NEWS: Appleby’s Cat For The Everest? It could be a case of why… Read More »
Brett Prebble’s return to Australian racing is off to a rocky start with the star jockey suspended at Caulfield. New chief steward Robert Cram issued a 20-meeting ban to Prebble on Saturday after finding him guilty of improper riding aboard Cross Legend in the Listed Jim Moloney Stakes. Stewards charged… Read More »
Queensland mare Winter Bride has become a stakes winner at her first start in Melbourne with a fighting victory at Caulfield. The Toby Edmonds-trained filly was having her first start since July in Saturday’s Group Three Ladbrokes Odds Boost Stakes. Ridden by Ryan Maloney, Winter Bride ($4.80) scored a half-length… Read More »
A long-range plan has come to fruition with international visitor Jungle Cat winning the Group One Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield. UK-based Godolphin trainer Charlie Appleby has had plenty of success at Australian carnivals in the past three years and sent a team of three horses to Melbourne earlier… Read More »
Night’s Watch has earned a ballot exemption into the Caulfield Cup with victory in the MRC Foundation Cup at Caulfield. But trainer Darren Weir says the five-year-old is not guaranteed to start in the $5 million race on October 20 after his win on Saturday. Weir said he would wait… Read More »
Zumbelina is likely to race on in Queensland after a strong win in the Marcoola Surf Club Handicap at the Sunshine Coast. Sent out favourite, Zumbelina ($2.60) gave jockey Jeff Lloyd a winning double when she came from well back in the field to beat Spur Le Jouer ($101) by… Read More »
The Autumn Sun has staged a stunning last-to-first performance to beat his Chris Waller-trained stablemate Zousain in the $1 million Golden Rose. Already a Group One winner of the JJ Atkins in June, The Autumn Sun had lost his unbeaten record and Golden Rose favouritism at his previous start when… Read More »
The lightly raced Shumookh will be aimed at the Group One Myer Classic after breaking through for a first stakes win in the Golden Pendant at Rosehill. Trained by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, Shumookh won the first of her seven starts in January and added her second win in… Read More »
