Snowden’s Golden Slipper team still undecided
With Golden Slipper favourite Sepoy still on target for Saturday week’s $3.5 million showpiece, just who joins him from the Peter Snowden stable will become clearer in the next 48 hours.
With Golden Slipper favourite Sepoy still on target for Saturday week’s $3.5 million showpiece, just who joins him from the Peter Snowden stable will become clearer in the next 48 hours.
David Hayes didn’t mince words when assessing the chances of Extra Zero in Friday’s $170,000 Albury Gold Cup.
Skyline Stakes winner Uate is still a chance of running in Saturday week’s $3.5m AAMI Golden Slipper (1200m).
Trainer Clinton McDonald has put blinkers on Bigelow to sharpen him up for his third-up tilt at the $100,000 Pink Ribbon Cup on his home track at Caulfield on Saturday.
The “autumn from hell” has continued for the Murray and Bjorn Baker stable with another of their stable stars ruled out of the Sydney autumn carnival.
An awkward barrier has slightly dented Peter Snowden’s confidence ahead of Saturday’s Rosehill Guineas in which Derby-bound Retrieve will be the stable’s sole representative.
Premier trainer Robert Heathcote will unleash two of his emerging stars at Doomben on Saturday but has warned punters both may be vulnerable.
Peter Moody says only some sort of “curve ball” could cause the defeat of Black Caviar in the Group One William Reid Stakes at Moonee Valley on Friday night.
A pleasing track gallop and the absence of Black Caviar has Glyn Schofield optimistic Hay List can return to the winners’ circle in Sunday’s Challenge Stakes.
Last year jockey Andrew Bloomfield sat on his lounge in a neck brace watching Gandalf The White score an upset win in the $60,000 Enpower Solutions (EPS) City Handicap at Albury.
Black Caviar has drawn barrier six in a field of nine in the Group One William Reid Stakes at Moonee Valley on Friday night.
New Zealand Derby winner Jimmy Choux has drawn ideally in barrier six in a field of 14 for Saturday’s Group One Rosehill Guineas.
The fields for the 2011 Rosehill Guineas day have been released with the Group 1 Rosehill Guineas being the headline race with another three group 2 races the Pago Pago Stakes, Magic night Stakes and the Ajax Stakes also being run on the day at Rosehill racecourse. View the days… Read More »
The fields for the 2011 Albury Gold Cup day have been released with the Albury Gold Cup being the headline race with another two feature races the TAB Sportsbet Flat Knacker Stakes and the Albury Guineas also being run on the day at Albury racecourse. View the days race fields.
The fields for the 2011 William Reid Stakes day have been released with the Group 1 William Reid Stakes being the headline race with another group 2 race the Sportingbet Sunline Stakes also being run on the night at Moonee Valley racecourse. View the days race fields.
Here is what is making news this Wednesday morning.
Werribee Racing Club will not race on its own track until December following a Racing Victoria (RV) decision to transfer the next four race meetings to other venues.
Leading Sydney jockey Kerrin McEvoy has been given an autumn carnival scare when he was involved in a trackwork mishap.
Leading trainer Peter Moody is set to receive his biggest ever pay cheque on Friday if his runners pass the $1 million mark in prizemoney for the Moonee Valley night racing season.
Wet track form and a drop in class has David Pfieffer confident Gai’s Choice can return to the winner’s circle at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.