Leon Corstens is looking for Sweet As Bro to bounce back to the winner’s circle at Moonee Valley and keep his hopes of sneaking into the Doncaster Mile alive. The four-year-old lines up in a $100,000 Open handicap on Saturday and Corstens expects the conditions of the race to suit…. Read More »
Honest stayer Margins is back from Sydney and set to help young trainer Ben Currie continue his push towards Brisbane’s top 10 trainers. Currie has trained 42 winners on all tracks this season and for a strike rate of 19.2 per cent. He has been aiming most of his team… Read More »
Saturday’s Moonee Valley meeting could prove significant for jockey Daniel Moor as he chases his next Group One mount. Moor is hoping Street View can continue his push towards a possible South Australian Derby start in the Kane Constructions Handicap (2040m). Anthony Freedman trains Street View but the three-year-old is… Read More »
A gear change, wet weather and a distance rise. It’s a combination trainer Colin Scott hopes can inspire Speediness to a breakthrough Group One win in the George Ryder Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday . Disregarding Speediness’s last-start Canterbury Stakes failure, Scott expects the six-year-old to stamp himself as a… Read More »
Michael Walker has been fined over comments he made on a television program following his New Zealand Derby win. Walker travelled to New Zealand on Thursday to front the Judicial Control Authority (JCA) after telling Sky Racing’s `Off The Rails’ program he may have misled stewards to ensure he was… Read More »
Gerald Ryan has given stable apprentice Damien Thornton a vote of confidence, entrusting him with the Pago Pago Stakes mount on Time For War. Saturday’s feature will be Thornton’s first experience of Group racing in Sydney, although he has ridden at that level in Victoria. Time For War won his… Read More »
Robert Smerdon has ruled out an interstate Group One assignment for Shamal Wind this weekend to concentrate on another next month. Smerdon nominated the mare for Saturday’s Group One Galaxy in Sydney but will instead stick to his original plan to run her at Moonee Valley. He believes the Melbourne… Read More »
Tim Clark fears the handicapper might have cruelled his chances of winning a third Group One Galaxy aboard smart sprinter Famous Seamus at Rosehill on Saturday. The gelding has 56.5kg in the 1100 metre feature and will concede weight to proven Group One performer Temple Of Boom and the flying… Read More »
The wet weather in Brisbane has been welcomed by connections of three-year-old Rudy who takes his first step towards the Queensland Derby at Doomben on Saturday. Rudy, who will tackle the Alfred & Constance Handicap (1200m), has won three races, all on heavy tracks. He was bred by Chinchilla-based doctor… Read More »
He is the class runner in Saturday’s Group One Rosehill Guineas but Shamus Award will need to prove himself on two fronts to win. The colt has never raced in the clockwise direction, nor on a surface worse than dead. The 2000m contest is set to be held on a… Read More »
The Brisbane weather will determine whether smart mare Black Magic returns to racing on Saturday at Doomben or heads straight to Sydney. Trainer Bruce Brown is aiming Black Magic at the Group Two Sapphire Stakes at Randwick on April 19 before a return to Brisbane for the major winter carnival… Read More »
Well-related mare Double Dee has the chance to start an interstate family double in Saturday’s Pantry Packer Handicap at Moonee Valley. The mare’s half-brother Shamus Award will command the main focus when he tackles some of Australasia’s best three-year-olds in the Group One Rosehill Guineas in Sydney. Double Dee’s trainer… Read More »
The three-year-olds are among the top fancies for Saturday’s Group One George Ryder Stakes but connections of El Roca and Eurozone concede their colts need to raise the bar. The duo takes on a field high in quality and depth headlined by Boban, Red Tracer, Streama, Gordon Lord Byron and… Read More »
A tricky barrier hasn’t dented the confidence of trainer Peter Gelagotis who will run Mourinho in Friday’s Albury Gold Cup. The talented six-year-old came up with barrier 13 in the field of 16 plus two emergencies. “It’s certainly a tricky barrier and a lot will come down to tactics and… Read More »
Hugh Bowman has no doubt Temple Of Boom can become the first horse in more than three decades to win the Galaxy twice – on one condition. “It needs to be dead or worse for him to win at this level but if he gets that rain-affected ground he’s the… Read More »
Tulloch Lodge trainer Gai Waterhouse has backed the decision of her stable’s No.1 jockey Tommy Berry to ride at the George Ryder Stakes meeting at Rosehill. Berry has been at the bedside of twin brother and fellow jockey Nathan who has been in a Singapore hospital since he collapsed at… Read More »
Siblings to top gallopers gave trainer David Hayes an early Mornington double on Thursday. Group One winner Aqua D’Amore’s three-quarter brother Petrology started the day well for Hayes when he claimed the A Positive Move Handicap. A son of Fastnet Rock, Petrology fetched $200,000 as a yearling. Hayes’s representative Bruno… Read More »
Amicus has given Chris Waller his 100th Sydney metropolitan winner for the season, but he won’t be tempted to push the two-year-old past her limit. The filly strolled home in the Hyland Race Colours Plate at Randwick on Wednesday to score a 5-1/2 length win. But while she’s paid up… Read More »
A late autumn cameo in Sydney is likely for comeback stayer Le Roi but trainer Tony McEvoy is more focused on a major Melbourne spring target. The five-year-old import runs over 1600m at Moonee Valley on Saturday in his second start since spending 11 months off the scene recovering from… Read More »
Chris Waller will wait as long as he can before deciding if Red Tracer will join three stablemates in the George Ryder Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday. The Group One race was not on the mare’s autumn schedule with Waller instead planning to keep her to fillies’ and mares’ company… Read More »
