Genetics is not an exact science and trainer Gerald Ryan will send Snitzerland out in the TJ Smith Stakes on a likely wet track hoping she throws to the paternal side of her family. The Lightning Stakes winner has never run on a track rated worse than dead but Ryan… Read More »
Rosehill Guineas winner Criterion looms as Hugh Bowman’s headline ride on the opening day of The Championships, but his favourite horse will carry his hopes in the $3 million Doncaster Mile. Bowman won the Rosehill Guineas on the David Payne-trained Criterion and the colt is the favourite to win the… Read More »
Melbourne Cup winner Fiorente is likely to be retired to stud after suffering a tendon injury. The horse gave trainer Gai Waterhouse her first Melbourne Cup win last year and added the Australian Cup to his record last month. One of the star galloper’s part-owners, Henderson Racing, confirmed the injury… Read More »
It has been a mixed week for Brisbane trainer Kelly Schweida but he left Eagle Farm on Saturday with two genuine winter carnival hopes. Schweida went to Doomben on Wednesday confident he could get at least a treble from his seven runners but went home empty handed. “I have had… Read More »
Country trainer Phil Atkins has upstaged the Golden Slipper winning team in the Gosford Guineas with outsider In Cahoots beating Chautauqua in atrocious conditions. Trained by the Hawkes family partnership and ridden by James McDonald who combined with Mossfun on Saturday, Chautauqua was the $3.50 favourite to win the 1200m… Read More »
A five-length defeat in the Rosehill Guineas has not shaken jockey Craig Newitt’s belief Teronado can win the Group One ATC Australian Derby. Teronado finished third behind Criterion and Thunder Fantasy in his final Derby lead-up in the Group One Rosehill Guineas (2000m) on March 29. Newitt said the slow… Read More »
Robbie Griffiths has opted against a Sydney autumn carnival appearance for Girl In Flight, convinced the filly has a better chance of a big race win in Adelaide. Girl In Flight heads to the Group Three Schweppervescence Stakes on Saturday over 1800m with her ultimate aim the Group One Australasian… Read More »
Apprentice Damien Thornton has been entrusted with the Group One ride on Time For War in the Sires’ Produce Stakes. Thornton’s boss Gerald Ryan will have four runners in Saturday’s $1 million race including Saturday’s Golden Slipper fourth Believe Yourself who is the TAB’s $4.60 favourite. Lucky Raquie and Peggy… Read More »
Racing Victoria stewards will soon have keys to enter every on-course stable in Melbourne. Chief steward Terry Bailey says the move will give his team the ability to conduct race day inspections of stables without hindrance. “We will be able to have unfettered access to stables at Caulfield and Flemington… Read More »
Unless there is a compelling reason not to run Boban in the Doncaster Mile, the gelding will take his place as topweight in the $3 million race. Chris Waller said the dual Group One winner was ready to race on Saturday with clear weather expected in Sydney late in the… Read More »
There was no dream result for the horse Nathan Berry should have ridden in the Golden Slipper but the presence of his family and friends at Rosehill on Saturday was a victory of the human spirit. Berry, who died on Thursday from a rare illness, was to have ridden the… Read More »
James McDonald has produced the ride of his young life to win the world’s richest race for two-year-olds on Mossfun on a wet Rosehill track. The filly missed the start but McDonald kept calm as his pre-race plans to be in a handy position fell apart, knowing he had a… Read More »
Weary firmed in Doncaster Mile betting, but trainer Chris Waller was non-committal on a start after the import’s victory in Saturday’s Doncaster Prelude at Rosehill. Having just his third Australian start, the French gelding positioned closer to the speed than had been his pattern and overpowered leader Leebaz to score… Read More »
Two narrow verdicts helped the David Hayes stable to a treble at Saturday’s Flemington meeting. Red Fez won the Maidstone Handicap (1400m) by a nose, while Churchill Dancer had a half-head in his favour at the end of the Smithfield Handicap (1200m). Churchill Dancer’s success broke a winning drought stretching… Read More »
The race didn’t go to plan and Hugh Bowman was forced onto the worst part of the track, but it didn’t stop Lucia Valentina in Saturday’s Vinery Stud Stakes at Rosehill. Bowman had been instructed to find a midfield position, but he reverted to Plan B and rode for luck… Read More »
Import Our Voodoo Prince is set to see more of Australia after dominating his opposition at Flemington on Saturday. Our Voodoo Prince, the $4 favourite, maintained his unbeaten record for trainer Chris Waller when he circled his rivals to win the Community Raceday Handicap (2000m). Jockey James Winks was also… Read More »
The biggest win of Jamie Kah’s fledgling career has edged the apprentice closer to outriding her claim. Kah guided the Mick Price-trained Worth A Ransom to a 1-1/4 length victory in Saturday’s $250,000 VOBIS Gold Reef (1600m) at Flemington. It takes the 18-year-old apprentice to within two city wins of… Read More »
It was Nathan Berry’s favourite day on the racing calendar, and the talented jockey should have been there. He should have been in the $3.5 million Golden Slipper aboard Unencumbered, the colt on which he won the $2 million Magic Millions in January, the biggest victory of his cut-short career…. Read More »
Mossfun has lived up to her reputation as one of the best wet-track two-year-olds in training to win the $3.5 million Golden Slipper at Rosehill. Keeping an unbeaten record in rain-affected ground, Mossfun ($5.50) hugged the rails in beating the favourite Earthquake ($2.40) and Bring Me The Maid ($11) in… Read More »
Proving her Ranvet Stakes win was no fluke, New Zealand mare Silent Achiever has again stamped her authority on Australia’s best weight-for-age performers, this time in the BMW at Rosehill. Last time out in the Ranvet over 2000m, Silent Achiever was a narrow winner over Carlton House and It’s A… Read More »
