Angela Smith will find it hard to match Viscount Cameron’s emotional Broome Cup victory, but her grand campaigner Corporate Larrikin could give it a shake. The durable 12-year-old is having his 100th career start in Saturday’s XXXX Broome Cup (2200m) and despite being an $18 chance, he’s capable of scoring a… Read More »
Peter Snowden’s vast experience has taught him never to pigeon-hole a three-year-old before giving them the chance to prove their credentials. In that vein, Snowden will saddle up Construct and Revivalist in Saturday’s Group 3 Up And Coming Stakes (1300m) at Kembla Grange with an open mind on where they might end… Read More »
The snap lockdown of the ACT has forced trainer Luke Pepper to scramble to ensure his team of horses can race this weekend, including Kembla Grange hopeful Glorious Dream. The Canberra-based horseman has four runners across three venues on Saturday and he isn’t permitted to travel to any of them. “I’ve… Read More »
Trainer Grahame Begg went against his usual formula with Libiamo when he kicked her career off with a debut win at Caulfield. Begg invariably starts his horses off in maiden company on the provincial circuit in the hope of getting an early win on the board. But a wet winter in Melbourne… Read More »
Streets Of Avalon will attempt to add to his enviable weight-for-age record at Caulfield when he runs in the P B Lawrence Stakes. But the Group 2 1400m contest, while a nice race to win, is a stepping stone to a bigger assignment two weeks later. Nichols would like to add the Memsie Stakes… Read More »
All options are on the table for Laure Me In this campaign after he passed a crucial distance test with his fast-finishing second in the Grafton Cup. The seven-year-old had been untested beyond 2000m until his past two starts but proved his staying credentials when he followed a fifth in… Read More »
Having proven his worth as a two-year-old, General Beau will now try to show his class as a three-year-old when he steps out at Caulfield. General Beau stepped out in the first two-year-old race last season and contested Melbourne’s feature two-year-old, the Blue Diamond, and on Saturday runs in the first… Read More »
By a no-frills stallion out of a mare who campaigned on the picnic circuit, Subterranean is proving to be somewhat of an over-achiever on the racetrack. A son of Group One-winning sprinter Rebel Dane, Subterranean gave the under-rated stallion his first winner when successful at his second start at Doomben… Read More »
James Ponsonby has set a long-range goal to qualify Philipsburg for next year’s Country Championships Final – if he can keep the horse in Australia. Ponsonby, who was the foreman for Mark Newnham at Warwick Farm before venturing out on his own almost 12 months ago, revealed Philipsburg has attracted interest from Hong… Read More »
WA Hall Of Fame trainer Neville Parnham isn’t underestimating the big hurdle facing his top sprinter, Indian Pacific when he resumes at Belmont on Saturday. Indian Pacific is favourite to win the Listed Heineken Belmont Newmarket (1200m), but Parnham believes stiff opposition and carrying top weight will hinder the gelding’s prospects…. Read More »
Best Of Days is one of the mainstays of the Australian Godolphin operation and he is about to embark on another spring campaign. The recently turned eight-year-old is gearing up for his fourth Spring Carnival down under after first appearing on the scene in 2018. His latest campaign kicks off on… Read More »
Group winner Tiger Of Malay will take his place in the Up And Coming Stakes, despite co-trainer Michael Freedman admitting the conditions of the race are not ideal. The colt will carry 61kg in the 1300m quality handicap at Kembla Grange, three kilos more than his nearest weighted rival Subterranean… Read More »
See You In Spring may have been a late starter to racing but when she did commence her career, she showed a sign of maturity immediately. A veteran of only three starts, See You In Spring had those three runs all in the space of less than a month and in three different states…. Read More »
Peter Snowden sees the booking of James Mcdonald as crucial to the prospects of King Of Sparta at Kembla Grange, and not just because he is Sydney’s champion jockey. King Of Sparta was gelded prior to the start of his current campaign but after resuming with a win on the… Read More »
Having a fit, honest horse with a liking for a wet track, Richard Cully came up with a plan that he hoped would land him a first stakes race victory. But fine weather and a drier than expected track has dented Cully’s hopes with Pintoff in the Listed Regal Roller Stakes (1200m) at… Read More »
All Time Legend has proven he can run a mile but trainer Les Bridge is in two minds about whether that is the horse’s pet journey. The Hall of Fame trainer will nominate the gelding for the Epsom Handicap (1600m) this spring but before he commits to that path, he… Read More »
Mount Fuji, who was originally sold for $2.8 million at the 2019 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, has found a new home after being offered for sale at the Inglis’ 2021 August (Early) Online Sale, which ended yesterday. The four-year-old, who is winless after four starts, will head to the… Read More »
It may be six months away, however the lustre of the Neds Blue Diamond Stakes is ever shining with the training elite putting forward 1594 nominations of up-and-coming 2-year-olds. Caulfield locals are leading the charge with Ciaron Maher & David Eustace submitting 95 nominations for next year’s edition, the most of any trainer in Australia. Mick Price… Read More »
Chris Waller-trained four-year-old Toomuchtobear has put his hand up for a spring campaign after a dominant win at Newcastle on Wednesday. Chris Waller may have unearthed another spring contender with the lightly raced Toomuchtobear winning the Sky Racing Handicap (1500m) at Newcastle on Wednesday. Toomuchtobear, with Lee Magorrian in the saddle, defies… Read More »
Tony Sergi will saddle-up his first metropolitan runner since the 2017/2018 racing season. It’s been over three years since Tony Sergi has saddled up a metropolitan runner, but Island Bay Boy will change all of that when he lines up in the Precise Fire Handicap (1200m) on Saturday. Island Bay Boy is… Read More »
