Reigning Everest winner Think About It might have been back home in the stable, but Joe Pride only had eyes for his Big Dance Wild Card winner King Of The Castle at Randwick, describing the gelding as his “horse crush”. King Of The Castle ($7) raced his way into the $3 million… Read More »
West Wind Blows, who started a $5.50 favourite in the Group 1 Caulfield Cup (2400m), was narrowly denied, by a former stablemate no less, but co-trainer Ed Crisford was upbeat after the race despite the loss. Crisford, who trains in partnership with his father Simon, brought Without A Fight to Australia for… Read More »
Jockey Ben Melham will be putting his hand up to ride whichever horse Mark Zahra rejects in the Melbourne Cup. Ben Melham rode the Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained Gold Trip into third place in the Group 1 Caulfield Cup (2400m) on Saturday and would like to keep the ride in the Group 1 Melbourne… Read More »
Mark Zahra’s faith in Without A Fight was vindicated when the imported galloper provided the jockey a second Caulfield Cup in four years. In different scenes from his win aboard Verry Elleegant when there were no crowds on course because of COVID, Zahra defeated his close friend Jamie Spencer aboard English galloper West Wind Blows in a race that was… Read More »
With regular jockey Kerrin Mcevoy in Melbourne for the Caulfield Cup, John Sargent had to find a new rider for Palmetto in the Five Diamonds Prelude and his booking of Kathy O’Hara proved a winning one. O’Hara has been a mainstay of the Sydney jockeys’ room for many seasons but is enjoying a career… Read More »
View the comments from all of the jockeys from the Caulfield Cup which was run on Saturday 21st October. Winning Jockey: Mark Zahra On the right horse: “It is good when you have the results at the end but you have to choose them beforehand. “What a moment. I’m so… Read More »
The Group 1 Thousand Guineas (1600m) is next on the agenda for the Michael Moroney trained Coeur Volante who remained unbeaten this preparation, taking out the Group 2 Thousand Guineas Prelude (1400m) at Caulfield. Jumping from the widest barrier, Blake Shinn managed to slot Coeur Volante one out, one back after 200… Read More »
With his wife and children watching on, Damien Oliver guided home a winner at his final Caulfield Cup meeting. Oliver announced his retirement from riding at the start of the Spring Carnival and will bow out after competing at the Perth Summer Carnival in November. Unfortunately for Oliver he was unable to add to his… Read More »
Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott have continued their outstanding start to the juvenile season, producing Shangri La Express for a debut win at Randwick to give them three of the first four two-year-old races of the term. The stable started its run when Espionage led home a Breeders’ Plate trifecta before Sovereign… Read More »
The 2023 Caulfield Cup is the feature race held at Caulfield Racecourse on Saturday afternoon. The race is run over 2400m and is worth $5,000,000 in prize money. Find out all the information on the Caulfield Cup below including how you can live stream the Caulfield Cup 2023, the full… Read More »
Mention to Steve Wolfe that Red Can Man has not won a race for a while and the Albany-based trainer bristles at the remarks. The records show Red Can Man hasn’t been successful since the G3 John Monash Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield two years ago. But, delve deeper and those same… Read More »
James Cummings will attempt the rare feat of a running double with siblings at Randwick when products of blueblood mare Memorial step out within 40 minutes of each other this Saturday. Boom I Am Invincible filly Commemorative takes on the older mares in Race 5 with her Exceed And Excel half-brother Contemporary to go… Read More »
Trainer Grahame Begg has been denied a start in a feature Cup race for a second time with Nonconformist being scratched from the Caulfield Cup. Nonconformist presented with lameness in his right-hind leg on Thursday and was re-inspected by Racing Victoria vets on Friday before being withdrawn 2.53pm on veterinary grounds. The scratching of Nonconformist… Read More »
Champion jockey James McDonald is gearing up to clinch the one major Australian racing title that has eluded him: the Caulfield Cup. With an unwavering commitment, he’s slated to ride at 54kg, a weight he hasn’t approached in over two years, as he teams up with Francesco Guardi this coming… Read More »
In preparation for the much-anticipated Caulfield Cup Day, the Caulfield racecourse is set to undergo strategic watering to achieve a ‘Good 4’ surface. Track manager, Tim Bailey, told racing.com, “We’re not specifically preparing it for one horse. There’s no doubt that 99 per cent of trainers want a Good 4… Read More »
Grahame Begg is banking on an early morning trip being the catalyst for C’Est Magique finding winning form again. A debut winner on the synthetic track at Pakenham in August last year, C’est Magique has raced exclusively in Stakes company in her five subsequent starts. Her seventh career start on Saturday comes in the Group 3 Tristarc Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield… Read More »
Expensive import, Light Infantry Man, will not participate in this year’s Cox Plate and will be taking an extended break until next year, as announced by co-trainer Ciaron Maher on social media. Light Infantry Man, a G1 Queen Anne Stakes placegetter at Royal Ascot, has had an extensive racing season… Read More »
Racing Victoria and Melbourne’s metropolitan racing clubs all undertake their own international recruiting campaigns, but some perform the role without being on the payroll. Damian Lane is something of an unofficial scout in Japan and earlier this year he was doing his best to ensure Japanese representation in the Spring Carnival… Read More »
The updates from the Werribee quarantine facility had always been positive, but that didn’t mean Ed Crisford wasn’t without some trepidation when he saw West Wind Blows for the first time in several weeks on Thursday. Crisford and his co-trainer, his father Simon, had been kept well up to date by the… Read More »
Twenty-four hours can be a long time in racing, just ask Newcastle trainer Sam Kavanagh. On Tuesday, Kavanagh was bullish about the chances of his veteran miler Aramayo in the Big Dance Wild Card (1600m) at Randwick. When the barrier draw came out on Wednesday, he was completely deflated. “I thought… Read More »
