There are many big races in Australia that all have something a little different about them â think the Melbourne Cup, Cox Plate, Golden Slipper and even The Everest. But for something unique there is the Group 1 Caulfield Cup (2400m) which will be run on Saturday. Jockey Craig Williams has won… 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 »
The eight-year-old has not saluted in Perth, but has gone close to taking out a feature event with four placings in Group and Listed races since last year. Titan Blinders ran seconds in the Group 3 Eurythmic Stakes (1400m) and Listed Hannans Handicap and two thirds in the Listed Bunbury Stakes… Read More »
Amelia’s Jewel’s interstate campaign remains alive with the gun Perth mare showing significant improvement following her shock defeat at Caulfield on Saturday. Amelia’s Jewel finished ninth of 16 in the Group 1 Toorak Handicap (1600m), a run totally out of character and the worst performance of her outstanding career. There were… Read More »
Trainers Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman have high hopes for Gates and are prepared to test the colt at Stakes level at Caulfield. A son of Frankel, Gates runs in the Group 3 Caulfield Classic (2000m) on Saturday as a lead-up to a potential start in the Group 1 Victoria Derby (2500m) at Flemington on November 4…. Read More »
Caulfield Cup contenders Without A Fight and Nonconformist are under a fitness cloud leading into the Caulfield Cup. The two horses were showing signs of lameness following mandatory pre-race veterinary examinations by Racing Victoria vets on Thursday to ascertain their suitability to race. The Anthony and Sam Freedman-trained Without A Fight presented with lameness in the left front foot while the… Read More »
Most top apprentices entering their first year as a fully fledged jockey take time to hit their straps, but Tyler Schiller is off to a flying start. The former champion junior rider has already booted home 19 city winners just two-and-a-half months into the racing term and sits third on the… Read More »
Trainer Grahame Begg admitted to being in the foetal position as he watched the Caulfield Cup Barrier Draw and saw Nonconformist come up with gate 19. Nonconformist will jump from the widest gate in Saturday’s Group 1 2400m Handicap regardless of what scratchings there are. Begg said he and jockey Harry Coffey will just have to… Read More »
Ben Melham has gone close to winning the Caulfield Cup and even though he is booked to ride Gold Trip is none the wiser as to whether the horse will run. The track condition on Saturday will be key to whether Gold Trip runs in the Group 1 Handicap over 2400m in which… Read More »
Ruled out of riding in two of the biggest races of the Melbourne spring due to suspension, Nash Rawiller is turning his focus to winning a rich double in Sydney. The top hoop, who has been in the best form of his career, was outed for careless riding aboard Power Of… Read More »
When Coolmore bought Amicus in 2016, it did so with the dream of seeing the daughter of Fastnet Rock create offspring capable of winning some of the world’s best races. It was around the time Coolmore bought a number of well-bred Australian mares to join some of their own stock… Read More »
If Winx Guineas winner Knight’s Choice can race his way into the Golden Eagle with a victory at Randwick, there will be a sense of synchronicity for his trainer Sheila Laxon. While it is ‘Spring Wild Card Day’ in Sydney, Saturday is Caulfield Cup Day in Melbourne and it was on… Read More »
Champion jockey Nash Rawiller won’t be seen in action at the Caulfield Cup and the Cox Plate meetings, following a suspension incurred at Randwick-Kensington on Wednesday. Rawiller was handed a seven-meeting suspension, in which he chose to begin immediately, after pleading guilty to a careless riding charge. The suspension stems… Read More »
Weeraechoux gave Brian Kersley plenty to cheer about following his Ascot triumph on Wednesday and the trainer believes his talented three-year-old can now go on with it. Racing first up after three competitive races at Belmont during the winter, Weeraechoux came with a barnstorming finish to win the Maca Maiden (1200m)… Read More »
The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace stable has elected to accept with Gold Trip in the Caulfield Cup, however a start will still come down to track conditions on the day. A capacity field of 18 plus one emergency has accepted for the Group 1 Handicap over 2400m on Saturday where he has opened as… Read More »
Everest-winning trainer Joe Pride has declared Winx’s little sister City Of Lights as “exciting” after she overcame a buffeting to score a timely win just three days after the death of her dame Vegas Showgirl. Vegas Showgirl, who produced 10 named foals including Group 3 winner El Divino along with $26 million… Read More »
The spring campaign is over for I Wish I Win after his second placing in The Everest in Sydney. Trainers Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman have elected to spell the New Zealand-bred sprinter and have already began planning the gelding’s autumn campaign. Moody said the stable had considered returning to Sydney for the $3 million Giga Kick Stakes (1300m) at Rosehill on November… Read More »
Juvenile galloper Coleman has lived up to the high expectations placed on him ahead of his first start at Caulfield. Those that supported the son of Pierata into $2.20 favouritism with online bookies in the Listed Debutant Stakes (1000m) on Wednesday had little cause for concerns as Ben Melham guided the colt to a 1-ÂŒ length… Read More »
The Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young stable received some minor consolation for the injury to Uncle Bryn with the victory of Muramasa at Caulfield. Muramasa took out the Group 3 Coongy Cup (2000m) on Wednesday, a little over 24 hours after Uncle Bryn was ruled out of the Group 1 Caulfield Cup (2400m) on Saturday. Uncle Bryn had completed his final gallop at Cranbourne on… Read More »
Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou were hoping to follow the same path as twelve months ago with last year’s Big Dance Wildcard winner Cisco Bay, but a wide draw has prompted a rethink. Cisco Bay came up with barrier 17 for Saturday’s renewal of the 1600m event at Randwick where… Read More »
