Peter Snowden after new season’s stakes races
The first metropolitan meeting of the new season had a notable absentee in Darley trainer Peter Snowden.
The first metropolitan meeting of the new season had a notable absentee in Darley trainer Peter Snowden.
Tony Pattillo showed his career was back on track when the jockey landed his first city winner in 18 months aboard talented three-year-old Vintage Moss at Eagle Farm.
If racing was only about the best looking horses winning, Rain Affair would be an outsider – and not the warm favourite – to win the Missile Stakes.
Trainer Rob Heathcote has had a change of mind and will consider adding Work The Room to his Melbourne spring carnival team if the six-year-old is successful at Doomben on Saturday.
Despite a horror draw, trainer Stephen Farley remains upbeat Gazza Guru can still win Thursday’s $70,000 Coffs Harbour Cup.
The Peter Snowden-trained dual Group One winner Helmet heads the nominations for the Caulfield Guineas in the absence of his more-celebrated stablemate Sepoy.
A third Cox Plate is a possibility for dual winner So You Think – but any genuine hope of a return of the hero is likely to depend on the vagaries of Australia’s quarantine regulations.
When Taree trainer Ross Stitt is bullish about his runners prospects, it’d be wise to follow him and according to him, we should be backing his horses at the Coffs Harbour Cup meeting on Thursday.
Spring prospects for Leon Macdonald and Andrew Gluyas could receive a massive boost from an unlikely source on Saturday.
Premier Sydney trainer Chris Waller has numbers on his side as he looks to this year’s spring features.
Top Brisbane hoop Glen Colless will venture to Sydney for just one ride on Wednesday as he continues a comeback to the saddle following a fall at Doomben last month.
After adding another piece of silverware to his trophy cabinet, premiership-winning jockey Chris Munce will make a low-key comeback for his first meeting of the new season at Eagle Farm.
Here are the nominations for the Thousand Guineas.
Golden Slipper placegetters Mosheen and Elite Falls are among nominations for the Group 1 Thousand Guineas (1600m), to be run on October 12.
Here are the nominations for the Caulfield Guineas.
Dual Group 1 winner Helmet and the promising Smart Missile head nominations for the Group 1 Caulfield Guineas (1600m), to be run on October 8.
Here are the nominations for the Caulfield Cup.
Last year’s Caulfield Cup winner Descarado and rising star Maluckyday are among nominations for the Group 1 BMW Caulfield Cup (2400m), to be run on October 15.
Here are the nominations for the Cox Plate.
Globetrotting champion So You Think heads 189 nominations for this year’s Group 1 Tatt’s Cox Plate (2040m), to be run at Moonee Valley on October 22.