Feroce will not back-up in this Saturday’s $2.5 million Group 1 All-Star Mile at Flemington, but trainer Dom Sutton is certainly not running from a challenge with his stable star. The Australian Guineas winner is being directed towards the Victoria Racing Club’s flagship autumn event, the $2.5 million Group 1 Australian… Read More »
Chris Waller is looking to pick up another Group 1 win with Atishu at Flemington. The mare has joined the trainer’s Flemington team ahead of the Group 1 All-Star Mile (1600m) on Saturday which will be followed by the Group 1 Australian Cup (2000m) three weeks later. Atishu is a dual Group… Read More »
Highly touted colt Angel Capital will continue his racing journey under the guidance of champion trainer Chris Waller. The talented three-year-old, recently acquired by Yulong Investments following an impressive first-up win in the Group 2 Autumn Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield, has been transferred from Clinton McDonald’s stable to Waller’s operation…. Read More »
It wasn’t quite the historic result of two years ago, but blueblood mare Special Lover produced another Premier Yearling Sale session-topper at Oaklands Junction on Monday. The Pins mare had the highest-priced lot of the second and final day of Book 1 at this year’s Inglis sale when her filly by… Read More »
Pride of Jenni is edging closer to a return to racing after a dominant performance in a jump-out at Cranbourne on Monday morning. Ridden by Craig Newitt, the seven-year-old mare and reigning Australian Horse of the Year led the 1000-metre heat from start to finish, winning by four lengths. This… Read More »
Knight’s Choice will not be seen in this Saturday’s All-Star Mile and his autumn campaign is up in the air after the Melbourne Cup winner was on Monday found to be injured. Co-trainers John Symons and Sheila Laxon revealed that the five-year-old had suffered a leg injury and was set for a… Read More »
Lindsay Park has opted against utilising the All-Star Mile wildcard that Marble Arch secured at Flemington on Saturday, instead setting their sights on Sydney with the in-form mare. The daughter of Per Incanto scored a maiden Group 2 win in the Blamey Stakes (1600m), a race that guaranteed her a place… Read More »
Chris Waller has already won one Group 1 this year with a member of his glamour group of three-year-old fillies and he will chase another this Saturday at Randwick. Castelvecchio filly Aeliana will again take on some of Australia’s highest-profile colts and geldings in the $1million Group 1 Randwick Guineas. The Thousand Guineas… Read More »
Inglis’s Oaklands Junction sale ring welcomed two millionaire colts in the space of 10 minutes on Sunday when the headline patch of Day 1 of this year’s Premier Yearling Sale lived up to expectations. Bloodstock agent Andy Williams struck first when he went to $1 million for a colt by… Read More »
Chris Waller has been training long enough to know you can’t plan for it, but good luck is the one thing he craves for Joliestar at her next outing. That will be in next Saturday’s Group 1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) at Flemington, which will be her first Victorian start since winning the… Read More »
Joe Pride had his game face on and did well enough to hide his disappointment over Ceolwulf missing a run in the Verry Elleegant Stakes at Randwick on Saturday. A genuine weight-for-age contender this autumn and already a two-time Group 1 winner plus second-placed in the 2024 Australian Derby, Pride was all set… Read More »
Verdad has been a cause of frustration over a long period of time for his connections and trainer Robbie Griffiths. A debut maiden winner at Bendigo in September 2023, it took until start number 16 in the Furphy Trophy (1600m) for the gelding to register his second success. Along the way,… Read More »
It may not have had Black Type attached to it, but the $550,000 first prize certainly compensated the connections of Brisbane raider El Morzillo in the Inglis Sprint (1200m). Eagle Farm-based Kelly Schweida made the trek down from Brisbane for the rich contest, saying he and jockey Craig Williams had picked out… Read More »
Trainer Robbie Griffiths said Enxuto was finally starting to race up to his good looks after completing a winning hat-trick in the Schweppes Plate (1400m). Enxuto followed successive wins at Sandown with a late dive to claim victory over 1400m, having raced to success at 1600m in his two previous outings…. Read More »
Having spent three years in the wilderness courtesy of a cobalt ban, Lee & Shannon Hope were back in the winner’s circle at Flemington courtesy of unbeaten filly Scillato in the Good Friday Appeal Plate (1100m). Scillato scored on debut at Seymour and then at Bendigo and had to dig deep to… Read More »
Luck may finally be going the way of the connections of Pivot City who got his head down at the right time to claim The All-Star Mile Owner Ambassador Trophy (1200m). Pivot City was retained by breeders Rob and June Harding after being sold for big money and then after being… Read More »
Midwest left his rivals in his wake to claim the VOBIS Gold Comet (1000m) at his first outing down the Flemington straight. The Anthony & Sam Freedman-trained sprinter had trialled on the straight course as a younger horse but had not been produced under race conditions. Sam Freedman said you always… Read More »
The words of seven-time Melbourne Cup winning owner Lloyd Williams are ringing in the ears of trainer Robert Hickmott as he contemplates the future of Revelare. Success in the Racing And Sports 2000 was Revalare’s fifth in succession and Hickmott now has the Listed Roy Higgins (2600m) at Flemington on March… Read More »
It has been a whirlwind 11 months in the training career of Dominic Sutton who landed his first Group 1 winner when Feroce took out the Australian Guineas (1600m) at Flemington. Sutton commenced his training career at Pakenham last year and had his first runner, followed by his first winner, at that… Read More »
Star filly Lady Shenandoah has shown her class but also been forced to call on her fighting qualities to win a thrilling Group 1 Surround Stakes at Randwick. Off the back of a dominant Flight Stakes win last spring and an effortless first-up success this autumn in the Light Fingers Stakes,… Read More »
