Trainer Chris Waller has enough proof to be confident what Winx does in the last part of her races is superior to any other horse. He puts his trust in her jockey Hugh Bowman to navigate the first part of her races safely. The champion has been known to cause… Read More »
A trip to Dubai for a rich race on the World Cup night program is among the possible targets for Group One-winning filly Oohood this campaign. The Tony McEvoy-trained Flight Stakes winner makes her return in Saturday’s Group Two Light Fingers Stakes (1200m) at Randwick ahead of Group One races… Read More »
Mike Moroney considers this season’s Group One Victoria Derby as one that got away with promising three-year-old Chapada. But the trainer is hoping the gelding can make up for what he describes as “a pretty luckless spring” with a big autumn campaign which begins at Flemington on Saturday in the… Read More »
Godolphin-owned colts Microphone and Lanigera are fighting out favouritism for the Talindert Stakes while Lindsay Park trainer David Hayes believes one of his runners is over the odds for the Listed race. The Talindert Stakes for two-year-olds is run on the straight course over 1100m at Flemington and the James… Read More »
John Sargent is renowned as a trainer of stayers in Australia but his resume with two-year-olds in New Zealand is equally impressive. And he hopes to get the chance to showcase that versatility locally when he starts debutante Crystal Falls in the Pierro Plate (1100m) at Randwick on Saturday. Sargent… Read More »
A regime of water aerobics has veteran Green Empire ready to revive memories of the legendary trainer Bart Cummings at Doomben. Green Empire is one of the last horses still racing originally trained by Cummings who died in 2015. The gelding won two races for Cummings when he trained in… Read More »
Verification of voting on the All Star Mile has indicated the top 10 has not been compromised despite some people submitting more than the allowed one selection. Terms and conditions for voting on the inaugural running of the $5 million All Star Mile at Flemington on March 16 allows for… Read More »
Divine Quality’s near-perfect first-up record has given trainer Robbie Griffiths the confidence to put her up against a crack field in the Group One Lightning Stakes. Griffiths has followed a similar program with the mare to the one he used in the spring when she was an emphatic first-up winner… Read More »
The Robert Heathcote-trained Ingeegoodbe will play a lone hand for Queensland in the longest race on the Doomben program, highlighting the lack of local distance horses. Premier Sydney trainer Chris Waller has three runners, Estikhraaj, Follow Suit and Vaucluse Bay, Newcastle-based Kris Lees has Zip A Dee Doo Dah, Murwillumbah’s… Read More »
Markets suggest Miss Fabulass is the clear pick of Kris Lees’ two runners in the Light Fingers Stakes at Randwick but the in-form trainer isn’t so sure. Lees will saddle up the $2.70 favourite along with El Dorado Dreaming ($14) who enters her second campaign for the Newcastle-based horseman after… Read More »
Beaudesert trainer Diane Murphy believes she will have plenty of options during the winter carnival with former Godolphin horse Astoria who will be spelled after he runs at Doomben. Astoria is one of the best performed horses racing in Queensland having been Group One-placed in the 2017 Victoria Derby and… Read More »
Four-time Cox Plate winner Winx has got through a final tune-up unscathed ahead of her return to racing in the Group Two Apollo Stakes at Randwick on Saturday. Preparing for her final campaign before retirement, the seven-year-old mare gave a glimpse of her trademark speed as she galloped down the… Read More »
Apprentice Kayla Crowther could not have wished for a better introduction to racing at Sandown, riding a double at her first two rides at the city course. Crowther guided $19 outsider Really Discreet to success in the Clanbrooke Racing Plate before hopping aboard $1.65 favourite Terbium to win the Le… Read More »
Greg Eurell admits lightly raced O’Tauto still has plenty to learn but the trainer hopes the talented gelding can put it all together quickly enough to emerge as an Australian Guineas chance. Winner of two of his four starts with another two seconds, O’Tauto steps up in class in Saturday’s… Read More »
