Tom Melbourne has returned to Victoria for his latest attempt to end a long run of outs. But the enigmatic gelding’s chances of breaking through for the first time since the 2016 Albury Cup have been dealt a blow despite Winx’s jockey Hugh Bowman going on in a race for… Read More »
After going close in both the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups a year ago, jockey Ben Melham is striving for a better result this year. Melham’s Caulfield Cup 2018 hopes on Saturday are pinned on imported stayer Homesman who the jockey rode to a Group One win in the Underwood Stakes… Read More »
A Caulfield Cup blueprint established in defeat 12 months ago will be used in Irish training maestro Aidan O’Brien’s bid to win the $5 million race for the first time. O’Brien came close to landing the first leg of Australia’s famous Cups double last year when Johannes Vermeer ran third… Read More »
Joe Pride doesn’t make a habit of skipping grades with his horses. But he is happy to make an exception for three-year-old Fifteen Rounds who will vault from a midweek placing at Warwick Farm to take on a group of progressive colts and geldings in Saturday’s Listed Brian Crowley Stakes… Read More »
The Victoria Derby prospects of a pair of Lindsay Park-trained three-year-olds will be put to the test in the Caulfield Classic. Stablemates Sikorsky and Muswellbrook will step up to 2000m for the first time in Saturday’s $350,000 Group Three race at Caulfield. Sikorsky is coming off a game second to… Read More »
Multiple Group One winner Black Heart Bart will spend his retirement at Darren Weir’s property alongside the trainer’s Melbourne Cup winner Prince Of Penzance. Connections announced Black Heart Bart’s retirement this week after the eight-year-old gelding finished among the tailenders in the Group One Toorak Handicap last Saturday. Black Heart… Read More »
New Zealand stayer Charles Road will continue his Melbourne Cup campaign in a Group Three race while many other contenders run in the Caulfield Cup. The winner of the Chairman’s Quality at Randwick before his third in the Sydney Cup in the autumn, Sir Charles Road will run in Saturday’s… Read More »
Paul Perry is rarely without an early-running two-year-old, or a couple of handy horses to fly the flag during the Melbourne spring carnival. And this year is no different. The Newcastle trainer will saddle up debutant Varsity in the Kirkham Plate at Randwick on Saturday while Perast will contest the… Read More »
Leading jockey Dwayne Dunn expects the Caulfield Cup’s modern-day transformation into a true staying test will bring out the best in his mount Duretto. Dunn, who won the 2006 Cup from an inside barrier on Tawqeet, says the $5 million Caulfield Cup is run differently to how it used to… Read More »
Trainer Kelly Schweida will get an extra lift if two-year-old The Odyssey can win at Doomben. The Odyssey is by Schweida’s former top sprinter Better Than Ready who now stands at Lyndhurst Stud in Queensland. Saturday marks the anniversary of Better Than Ready’s best win when he ran a course… Read More »
Memories of the late Group One-winning trainer Kelso Wood will be revived when Nikitas returns to his favourite track at Doomben. The now five-year-old Nikitas won his first start as a two-year-old at Doomben in December 2015 and went on to be one of Queensland’s best juveniles when trained by… Read More »
The colours carried to victory by Redzel in The Everest have been successful in a stakes race at Caulfield. Brave Song under a rails-hugging ride from James McDonald took out Wednesday’s Listed Ladbrokes Village Stakes. Like Redzel, Brave Song is prepared by Peter and Paul Snowden, but unlike his dual… Read More »
I Am A Star is continuing to live up to her name on the racetrack with a string of feature race wins against her own sex in Melbourne. The Shane Nichols-trained mare notched another feature win at Caulfield on Wednesday in the Group Three Ladies’ Day Vase (1600m) on the… Read More »
The horse who delivered Jay Ford a stakes win on Everest day will be enemy No. 1 when the jockey chases his second successive victory in the City Tattersalls Club Cup at Randwick. Ford scored an upset St Leger win aboard Big Blue last weekend and trainers Ciaron Maher and… Read More »
