Trainer Jim Jarvis was already looking a year ahead after his gelding Plateau Gold made it back-to-back victories in the Bat Out Of Hell on Saturday. The 900-metre scamper around the Gold Coast is rated the Queensland’s short-course championship and Plateau Gold ($4.80) won it in the manner of a… Read More »
As Craftiness continues to race through his classes in winning style, his trainer is now giving voice to Group One ambitions for the sprinter. After the four-year-old racked up his fourth straight win and his fifth from six starts at Saturday’s Rosehill meeting, Joe Pride nominated Brisbane’s most prestigious race,… Read More »
Although thrilled with a winning double at Rosehill, dual-state trainer Tony McEvoy’s thoughts turned to the people of Adelaide who were battling fires on Saturday. McEvoy operates stables at Hawkesbury on Sydney’s outskirts and also has a training and spelling complex at Kildalton Park, about 15km from the worst of… Read More »
Rosehill winner Gold Seventy Seven looks set to step up to stakes level in the autumn with a 100 per cent winning record. The three-year-old colt passed his biggest test when he scooped his third win from as many starts at Rosehill on Saturday. Trainer Kris Lees says he thinks… Read More »
Vastly improved Le Chef rocketed into calculations for next week’s Magic Millions Classic with an easy win at the Gold Coast on Saturday. Starting favourite, Le Chef ($2.50) had been 24th in order of entry into the $2 million race before tackling the First National Handicap (1200m). The gelding bounced… Read More »
A week after returning to the Sydney riding ranks from Hong Kong, Christian Reith has claimed a welcome win aboard the Gai Waterhouse-trained two-year-old Giulietta. The debut win has qualified the filly for a Magic Millions start but Waterhouse’s representative Mark Newnham says she will not back up in the… Read More »
Racing Victoria will send track specialists to Benalla to do a full review of the circumstances that led to the abandonment of Friday’s final two races. After the sixth race, Linda Meech raised concerns that her mount Jazz Musician had lost her footing near the 1100m mark. A deputation of… Read More »
It will be make or break for Micucci when she lines up at Rosehill to try to force her way into the Magic Millions Classic. The filly earned $4,150 for her debut fourth at Rosehill on December 20 and needs to win Saturday’s 2YO Plate to make the field for… Read More »
Trainer David Hayes is never one to pass up an opportunity. Hayes has former Hong Kong galloper Swift Shadow having his first run for the stable at Moonee Valley on Saturday. Having initially started his career with Gai Waterhouse in Sydney, Swift Shadow made his way to John Size in… Read More »
Spanish Love has stamped herself as a mare on the rise with back-to-back city wins and is well-placed to continue her march through the grades at Moonee Valley. The daughter of High Chaparral represents one half of a strong Moonee Valley representation on Saturday for trainer Mark Kavanagh as he… Read More »
A forecast for extreme temperatures has forced racing officials to shift Saturday’s Moonee Valley race meeting to a twilight timeslot. The Bureau of Meteorology says temperatures are expected to reach 41 degrees before an expected cool change in the early evening. Racing will now start at 4.35pm instead of 1.30pm… Read More »
Apprentice Geoff Goold has received a vote of confidence from trainer Kelly Doughty with his booking for Little Brown Horse in the Goldmarket Handicap. Jeff Lloyd rode Little Brown Horse when she was an eye-catching fifth in the Just Now Stakes at Doomben on December 14. However, Doughty has elected… Read More »
Trainer Kelly Schweida believes it will be a case of now or never when he tries to teach the flying Agitate to race off the pace on Saturday. Schweida’s decision to change tactics on Agitate adds to an already intriguing Bat Out Of Hell (900m) at the Gold Coast. The… Read More »
Four high-class Japanese horses have been confirmed as contenders for The Championships in Sydney. Real Impact, To The World, Tosen Stardom and World Ace are the first international horses targeting races at Randwick in April. To The World finished second to champion mare Gentildonna in her farewell race, the Arima… Read More »
Hong Kong’s champion miler Able Friend could be a star attraction at The Championships during the Sydney autumn carnival. His owner Do Cornel Li Fook-kwan is considering an invitation to run him in the $3 million Doncaster Mile at Randwick. The winner of the Hong Kong Mile last month, Able… Read More »
Jockey Linda Meech and staying mare Averau have continued a successful recent combination with a dominant victory in the $150,000 Bagot Handicap at Flemington. And Averau’s summer campaign is not over yet, with her trainers now eyeing a feature Tasmanian staying double in February. Meech has ridden Averau in her… Read More »
Donna Logan is getting used to winning three-year-old races at Ellerslie in January, but she felt unusually nervous about Volkstok’n’barrell on Thursday. As it turned out she didn’t have to be as the Tavistock gelding justified his $2.40 quote in the Group Two Great Northern Guineas (1600m), all but securing… Read More »
Confirming a liking for Flemington, Decircles landed his first feature-race win on Thursday. After running third in the Standish Handicap 12 months ago, Decircles tracked the speed set by Lord Of The Sky before taking out the 2015 edition. Ridden by Stephen Baster, Decircles, backed from $12 to $9, scored… Read More »
Waikato dairy farmer Paul Ryan won’t forget this summer in a hurry. Ryan has seen In Style and Surpass, two horses from a family he’s had for 30 years, win a number of black-type races, capped off by In Style’s Group One victory in the Railway Stakes (1200m) at Ellerslie…. Read More »
Chris Waller has begun the new year in the same fashion he finished the last with yet another feature-race win. Multilateral claimed Thursday’s Listed Tattersalls Club Cup (2400m) at Randwick to give Sydney’s premier trainer a clean sweep of the summer staying races after Saigon Tea won the Christmas Cup… Read More »
