Insurrection has camped on the speed in all five of his career wins, but trainer Michael Freedman won’t be surprised to see a different scenario unfolding when the horse lines up in The Warra at Kembla Grange. The $300,000 sprint has attracted a handy field of 14, several of them go-forward horses,… Read More »
Group 2 status, half-a-million dollars in prize money and bragging rights are solid enough incentives. But if Dan Morton takes off his training cap and looks at the contest purely as a fan, he’s salivating at the prospect. Saturday’s WA Guineas is the undercard to the Railway Stakes (1600m), but holds… Read More »
Not all horses thrive on the same workloads and for Smashing Eagle, the less he does on the training track the better he performs on race day. That has been co-trainer Gerald Ryan’s biggest lesson since the horse joined his yard earlier this year and not only has it resulted… Read More »
A spring of learning with Climbing Star is expected to come to fruition for trainer Phillip Stokes at Cranbourne. After a couple of luckless runs and then finding the trip a shade far at her last start, Stokes believes the Rosemount Stud Pendant (1400m) is made to order for Climbing Star on… Read More »
Ciaron Maher and David Eustace will attempt to keep the Cranbourne Cup on home soil when they saddle up Ascension and Charterhouse in the 1600m Listed race on Saturday. Since the Cranbourne Cup was shortened to 1600m and transferred to after the Melbourne Cup Carnival, Cranbourne trainers have taken out the race. Robbie Griffiths… Read More »
The Anthony and Sam Freedman stable is expecting Midwest to bounce back from a minor setback when he runs at Cranbourne. Midwest will contest the Apache Cat Classic (1000m) on Saturday, a race he finished third in last year behind Jigsaw. This time around, Midwest has a 7kg swing in the weights… Read More »
The much-anticipated return to racing on turf at the Gold Coast will take place on December 9, with the refurbished track ushering in a new era for the Gold Coast Turf Club as the Club continues to move forward with its bold masterplan aimed at elevating standards and rubber-stamping the… Read More »
Former leading horse trainer Darren Weir is set to appear before the Victorian Racing Tribunal in March 2024. He faces allegations from 2018 of using a jigger, an illegal device, on racehorses. Weir, along with his former stable staff Jarrod McLean and Tyson Kermond, were scheduled for a preliminary hearing… Read More »
A perfect picket fence preparation so far has trainer Gerald Ryan pleased with Eagle Nest’s lead-up to the mare’s target race at Doomben on Saturday. With now three wins in as many runs this campaign, Eagle Nest will line up in the Listed Tattersall’s Classic (1200m) and crosses the New South… Read More »
It might be a relatively recent addition to the calendar, but The Gong is a race close to the hearts of local horsemen Robert and Luke Price. Count De Rupee gave the Kembla Grange trainers their biggest win when he took out the 2021 renewal, atoning for a narrow defeat at… Read More »
Michael Poy is the son of former champion jockey, Michael Clarke and is going all out to complete a rare family treble in Perth’s famous mile race. A four-time winner of Melbourne’s Jockey Premiership, Clarke was a household name in racing and considered one of the best riders of his generation…. Read More »
Sydney’s champion trainer understands what’s required to win Perth’s famous mile race, having prepared Good Project to take out Railway Stakes honours in 2015. Good Project came close to another Railway Stakes the following year when second to Scales Of Justice, giving Chris Waller three placings overall after Moriarty and Tom… Read More »
The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace stable have been rewarded for their patient approach with Sisterhood after the mare registered a hard-fought first-up win at Sandown. Lining-up for her first start since March, Sisterhood took out the Ladbrokes Yard Comments Handicap (1200m) on Wednesday. Sent out the $2.20 bookmakers favourite under Ben… Read More »
Northumbria has become the latest Godolphin cast-off to thrive under the tutelage of Richard Litt, taking his record to two wins from as many starts for his new trainer. Litt has a record of success with horses who haven’t quite met Godolphin’s lofty standards, purchasing the likes of Sedition, Munitions and… Read More »
A bruised heel has put an end to the Cranbourne Cup hopes of King Magnus. The Robbie Griffiths and Mathew de Kock-trained galloper was a notable absentee from acceptances for Saturday’s Listed 1600m race when they closed on Wednesday. King Magnus won the first staging of the revamped Cranbourne Cup on… Read More »
The Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman stable are banking on the longer the preparation goes the better it will turn out for Pounding. The five-year-old will line up for the sixth run of the campaign when he contests the Listed Cranbourne Cup (1600m) on Saturday. Pounding’s current campaign kicked off in the P… Read More »
Time and patience are proving a successful combination for connections of Hard To Say as he attempts to extend his winning sequence to five in the $300,000 The Warra at Kembla Grange. The sprinter has been a revelation this campaign, book ending back-to-back victories in Brisbane with a first-up triumph at… Read More »
After a dominant carnival in Melbourne, James McDonald will bid to add the $1 million The Gong to his spring portfolio before jetting off to Hong Kong for a short-term stint. Sydney’s reigning champion jockey will link with the Chris Waller-trained Osipenko in Saturday’s Kembla Grange feature, ahead of fulfilling a… Read More »
Lindsey Smith has no complaints with the barrier Tuvalu drew for this Saturday’s Group 1 Railway Stakes at Ascot, but it is a different story with the weather in his old home town of Perth. Western Australia is in the early stages of a heat wave that will not abate until early… Read More »
Ayrton, joined by nine other top racehorses like Zaaki and Tuvalu, has landed in Perth, Western Australia, amid a heatwave, with temperatures expected to remain above 36 degrees. This arrival precedes their participation in The Pinnacles and follows Ayrton’s challenging run in the Group 1 Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes. Trainers… Read More »
