The Darby Racing team is spending the back end of this week scouring Inglis’s Riverside Sales Complex in search of more Classic Yearling Sale stars and if its 2025 team turns out as good as last year’s cohort it will have done well. The Scott Darby-led operation is inspecting the… Read More »
Starting as a humble dairy farm, Darling View Thoroughbreds has blossomed into one of the most prominent stud farms in the State through the committed ambition of father-son duo Clive and Brent Atwell. “The business has been in the blood for a long time, my great grandfather Walter Atwell actually… Read More »
The Phillip Stokes-trained Tom has scored an emotional breakthrough victory for his connections at Sandown. Tom, who is named after a close friend of part-owner Jeremy Payne, did the right thing by his large legion of supporters in taking out the Sportsbet Jockey Watch Plate (1200m) on Saturday. Perfect record for… Read More »
Zac Lloyd and Tim Clark both made the trip to Warwick Farm for one ride apiece and they ensured it wasn’t wasted by taking out the opening two races. Lloyd worked hard for his pay cheque aboard the Matthew Smith-trained Idle Flyer ($1.35), the filly taking an age to reel in Metaphoricallly ($3.50)… Read More »
She’s taking on a giant challenge against a crack field of rivals, but don’t tell trainer Dan Morton that his Perth mare Super Smink is just making up the numbers in her interstate debut on Saturday. Daniel Morton is not sure if Super Smink can win the Group 1 C.F.Orr Stakes (1400m)… Read More »
Tyler Schiller has declared it will take a good horse to beat Victorian filly Price Tag in the $2 million Inglis Millennium, provided she adapts to the clockwise direction of racing. Price Tag assumed outright $4 betting apps favouritism after drawing barrier 11 on Tuesday, while several of the other leading fancies… Read More »
Having been sounded out to run in a rich restricted race in Sydney, trainer John Mcardle is staying in Melbourne with My Gladiola with a focus on a Group 1 two-year-old race. The $2 million Inglis Millennium (1100m) is run at Randwick on Saturday, as is the Group 2 fillies edition of… Read More »
Trainer Clinton Mcdonald is hoping to strike while the tracks are dry and intends to keep Angel Capital to a three-run autumn campaign. That campaign kicks off in the Group 2 Autumn Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday. McDonald said depending on the colt’s performance on Saturday, the Group 1 Futurity Stakes… Read More »
John O’Shea isn’t anticipating Linebacker being ring rusty when he resumes for the first time as a gelding in the Eskimo Prince Stakes at Randwick. The Group 1 placegetter was only seen twice in the spring, most recently when sixth in the Golden Rose after a coltish pre-race display that resulted in… Read More »
Knight’s Choice is poised to become the first Melbourne Cup winner to run in an All-Star Mile after impressing in a trial at the Sunshine Coast on Tuesday morning. The five-year-old made his first public appearance since winning last November’s Melbourne Cup in the 1000-metre hitout and accelerated impressively along the… Read More »
Trainer Jason Miller is confident Bonjoy can take the next step towards bigger goals against the big guns later in the year after enjoying a golden run with the emerging star mare. Bonjoy will be on show one more time in the Listed Detonator Stakes (1800m) and Miller hopes she can bow… Read More »
Autumn Group 1 aspirations for Matt Cumani’s promising stayer Kingofwallstreet have been shattered, with the trainer confirming the Dundeel colt has sustained an injury and is likely to miss the remainder of 2025. The three-year-old, who finished fourth in the G1 Victoria Derby (2500m) last spring after winning the G3… Read More »
Sydney-bound stayers Warmonger and Lastotchka are set to kick off their campaign at Caulfield on Saturday. The Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained pair are slated to compete against each other in the Group 3 JRA Plate (1600m). Both Warmonger and Lastotchka are on a path to the Group 1 Tancred Stakes (2400m)… Read More »
Matthew Smith is taking it one run at a time with three-year-old filly Idle Flyer, who is an odds-on favourite in the Precise Air benchmark 68 (1400m) at Warwick Farm on Wednesday. A last-start benchmark 64 winner over 1250m at Randwick Kensington, the daughter of Dundeel will step up in trip… Read More »
The only thing missing from the CV of Schwarz is a Group 1 victory which his trainers John O’Shea and Tom Charlton hope to rectify as early as Saturday. Schwarz has yet to try his hand at Group 1 company but will get that opportunity in the C F Orr Stakes (1400m)… Read More »
The dream of a Royal Ascot campaign for Right To Party has come to an end after the mare suffered an injury setback, ruling her out of racing permanently. The Group 1 Champions Sprint runner-up was set to make her return in the G1 Black Caviar Lightning at Flemington next… Read More »
Patrick Payne, a Group 1-winning trainer, has been charged by Racing Victoria (RV) stewards after presenting a horse to the races twice in mid-2024 with prohibited substances in its system. On Monday, RV confirmed that four charges have been laid against Payne, who will now face the Victorian Racing Tribunal…. Read More »
Ultra-consistent sprinter Maharba is set to kick off his autumn campaign, one that his trainer hopes will lead to a Group 1 victory. Maharba has had two starts at the highest level previously, finishing midfield as a two-year-old in Sydney while at his last start he finished second in the Winterbottom… Read More »
An untimely illness has derailed Victorian filly Cavalry Girl’s plans to compete in Saturday’s $2 million Inglis Millennium at Randwick. After a convincing win at Flemington in mid-January, Tom Dabernig’s filly traveled to Sydney last week to prepare for the lucrative restricted race, which is open only to graduates of… Read More »
Treasurethe Moment took the most significant step of her path towards a shot at more Group 1 success with a trial at Cranbourne on Monday. The Matt Laurie-trained filly, whose most recent public appearance came when winning the VRC Oaks at Flemington in November, had a low-key hitout in a 1000-metre trial… Read More »
