Trainer Shea Eden will be chasing a breakthrough stakes win when he saddles up Zellindi in the Group Three Quezette Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday. Eden, 33, has been delighted with the progress the Listed placegetter has made since her autumn campaign, however the up-and-coming trainer admits recent wet weather… Read More »
A gelding procedure has been the making of the Joe Janiak-trained Polskie Prince. On Friday, the four-year-old by Snippetson chases a hat-trick of wins in the Bushland Tavern Chinese Restaurant Benchmark 55 Handicap (1250m) at Taree. Polskie Prince, who goes by the stable nickname of Snip, was purchased privately by… Read More »
Former Adelaide-based trainer Sam Kavanagh has made the perfect start to his new Sydney venture, celebrating a win with his first local runner. The victory by Words Are Weapons in Wednesday’s Ibis Milano Lunch Special Sprint (1100m) at Warwick Farm brought equals doses of excitement and relief for the 27-year-old… Read More »
Into The Red is on a Group One mission after his runaway win at Eagle Farm on Wednesday. Trainer Kelso Wood wasted no time in announcing Into The Red would join his high profile stablemates Sizzling, Someday and Belltone on a spring carnival campaign in Sydney in the coming weeks…. Read More »
The re-opening of the Moe track has been delayed until February next year to allow further consolidation of the new StrathAyr surface. The track has undergone a $4.5 million reconstruction designed to make Moe a focal point in Victoria’s Gippsland area. It will host 14 meetings a season and also… Read More »
A pleasing first-up run and even better second-up statistics have stakes winner Launay on target to challenge Puissance De Lune and Second Effort in Saturday’s P B Lawrence Stakes at Caulfield. The Melbourne Cup favourite Puissance De Lune heads first markets at $2.25 with TAB fixed odds for his seasonal… Read More »
The fledgling partnership between trainer Bjorn Baker and high-profile owner John Singleton celebrated its first city victory when Killcareless scored at Warwick Farm on Wednesday. The filly is the first horse Baker has prepared for Singleton, who severed his ties with trainer Gai Waterhouse following a public spat over star… Read More »
A stint in boot camp and some crucial gear changes proved the catalyst for Easy Running to end a losing streak at Eagle Farm on Wednesday. After Easy Running ran 10th at Grafton on July 14, trainer Desleigh Forster decided some tough love was required. “We did plenty of work… Read More »
Gai Waterhouse is banking on the addition of blinkers to give Whittington a first-up edge in the Group Three San Domenico Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday. The colt will be one of nine runners in the 1100m sprint, a traditional spring starting point for many of Sydney’s better three-year-olds. Among… Read More »
David Hayes-trained stablemates I Am Titanium and Churchill Dancer have underlined their Caulfield Guineas potential by running a quinella at Geelong on Wednesday. Hayes opted not to run I Am Titanium on the heavy ground at Cranbourne on Sunday, preferring to send him out on the synthetic surface at Geelong… Read More »
Top jockey Hugh Bowman predicted a bright spring for dual Group One winner Norzita after putting her through her paces in an exhibition gallop at Warwick Farm on Wednesday. Bowman is booked to ride the mare when she resumes in the Group Three Show County Quality (1200m) at the track… Read More »
Last year’s Melbourne Cup third placegetter Jakkalberry won’t be returning to Australia this year but his stablemate Dandino is on target for Melbourne spring carnival success. The Marco Botti-trained Dandino, who like Jakkalberry is raced by Australian Thoroughbred Bloodstock, runs in the American St Leger (2700m) this weekend. It is… Read More »
Racing Queensland has begun a subsidised program of vaccination against the deadly Hendra virus available to all registered thoroughbred and harness racehorses throughout the state. RQ chairman Kevin Dixon said the bat-borne virus, which has mostly been found in Queensland, was a risk to the industry and those who worked… Read More »
As he left Hong Kong in April, New Zealand trainer Bruce Wallace was resigned to the impending retirement of Mufhasa who had suffered a bleeding attack in the Champions Mile. Wallace took over the training of the dual New Zealand Horse of the Year from Stephen McKee in January and… Read More »
Clinton McDonald has no doubts Second Effort is better than he was 12 months ago as he bids for a second P B Lawrence Stakes on Saturday. However, the Caulfield trainer respects the class of resuming Melbourne Cup favourite Puissance De Lune and says he is the one to beat… Read More »
Master trainer Bart Cummings’ famous green and gold silks will be protected as recognition of his contribution to racing over the past 60 years. The Australian Racing Board said on Tuesday the colours could not be used for another 50 years even if they were retired before then. “Under the… Read More »
An upbeat report from jockey James McDonald has convinced trainer Bruce Wallace to throw New Zealand stakes winner Fast Dragon in the deep end at Rosehill on Saturday. Wallace had the colt entered for a barrier trial on Friday but decided on the San Domenico Stakes (1100m) as a starting… Read More »
A change in venue for Victoria’s midweek metropolitan meeting has prompted a change in thinking for David Hayes with Caulfield Guineas hopeful Churchill Dancer. The stakes-placed Churchill Dancer will take his place alongside stablemate I Am Titanium in Wednesday’s GRC Functions and Event Centre Handicap (1200m) on the Geelong Synthetic… Read More »
Last-start Longchamp winner You Are My World will make her Australian debut in a somewhat less grand setting at Warwick Farm on Wednesday but if trainer Tony McEvoy is right, she will make it to the big stage. Like many Australians, McEvoy is embracing the European staying bloodlines but unlike… Read More »
Melbourne Cup placegetter Jakkalberry will not return to Australia this spring. The Marco Botti-trained seven-year-old finished third in the 2012 Cup won by Green Moon but has been sidelined with a tendon injury since winning the Group Two City of Gold at Meydan in March. Botti will now prepare him… Read More »
