Inaugural Quokka winning jockey Josh Parr is bullish The Quokka (1200m) will continue to grow in future editions, following the first edition of the $4 million race at Ascot on Saturday. Josh Parr, who steered the Bjorn Baker-trained Overpass to victory, said the event surpassed his expectations. “I wasn’t too sure… Read More »
Trainer Simon Miller knows exactly how good Amelia’s Jewel is and was just as pleased with her effort when narrowly beaten in the inaugural running of The Quokka, however the question still remains whether Western Australia’s star filly is a sprinter or a miler as he plots her path to… Read More »
The Sydney Autumn Carnival may be officially closed but the group racing continues unabated in NSW with the running of the Stand-Alone Hawkesbury card on Saturday. A feature over many years, this meeting has a habit of producing young horses on the rise, often heading to Brisbane for the Winter… Read More »
Annabel Neasham’s My Oberon has secured the talented jockey Joao Moreira for its upcoming run in the Group 1 Champions Mile in Hong Kong on April 30th. The Irish-bred gelding will take on Hong Kong’s local champions, Golden Sixty and California Spangle, in the $3.8 million event, marking the only… Read More »
A win at Sandown on Wednesday would see Mount Brilliant back-up in the time-honoured VRC St Leger Stakes next week with success there capping off a different approach taken by trainers Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott. Gai and Adrian know what it takes to win a VRC St Leger as… Read More »
Joe Pride will revert to Plan B with top sprinter-miler Private Eye after scratching him from the All Aged Stakes due to the heavy track. The trainer had flagged not sending the horse around if conditions were worse than a soft seven and unfortunately for Private Eye’s connections, Randwick was posted as… Read More »
Things will get much tougher for Aberfeldie Boy than the challenge he was issued at Pakenham last Thursday night, but Robbie Griffiths could not have been happier with how his Victoria Derby placegetter returned. The gelding’s performance in a 1600m maiden only heightened the Cranbourne trainer’s enthusiasm for the autumn Derby he… Read More »
The inaugural running of the $4 million ‘The Quokka’ certainly didn’t disappoint, with Overpass ($12) just able to lead throughout in the 1200m feature at Ascot, scoring by 0.04 lengths. All the hype pre-race was about star three-year-old filly Amelia’s Jewel who was sent around as the $2.80 Favourite despite jumping from… Read More »
Phillip Stokes has not always been as complimentary towards Russian Dancer as what he was after his win at Sandown on Saturday. It’s no surprise the Pakenham trainer had some nice things to say, given the gelding secured Stokes and connections a $275,000 payday when he ran down Toronto Terrier in the VOBIS… Read More »
The Everest winner is now a Group 1 winner after Giga Kick outpointed a classy All Aged Stakes field to close the curtain on a thrilling Sydney autumn carnival. In taking out Saturday’s $1.5 million All Aged Stakes, Giga Kick gave his young trainer Clayton Douglas a first major and capped… Read More »
Racing Victoria does not need to look far for its new VOBIS Gold pin-up horse with Shesallshenanigans affirming her affinity for the concept at Sandown on Saturday. The Simon Zahra-trained filly made it back-to-back wins in two-year-old races restricted to Victorian-bred horses with a brilliant win in the $1 million The… Read More »
For all his many achievements, training the winners of the major two-year-old races had never been Chris Waller’s niche. But the champion horseman changed that reputation in the space of a season after making a clean sweep of Sydney’s juvenile triple crown. Waller did it with two exciting colts, taking… Read More »
One of Matt Cumani’s major ambitions as a trainer is to emulate his legendary father and win a Derby and the Ballarat trainer is confident he has found the horse who can provide one in Bengal Boy. The progressive son of Dundeel did what few horses achieve and broke his maiden… Read More »
Still smarting from a missed opportunity in the Randwick Guineas, there was some consolation for Chris Waller as Osipenko rounded out his autumn with a victory in the Frank Packer Plate. Osipenko had been favourite for the Group 1 Guineas before his scratching on race morning due to an elevated temperature and… Read More »
Like any trainer, Mick Trotter is a dreamer, but not even he dared imagine he would end up with the hand he has in Saturday’s The Showdown at Sandown. Not because he doesn’t rate his two runners, Beaunified and Apache Song, rather because his Cranbourne stable only has 10 in work and they… Read More »
So Si Bon’s VOBIS Gold Mile record is reason enough for Ben Hayes to be confident ahead of Saturday’s 2023 edition, but that is not where the Lindsay Park team’s optimism ends. The evergreen gelding heads into the $250,000 event at Sandown off an eighth placing in the All Star Mile…. Read More »
Peter Moody’s talented four-year-old gelding, I Wish I Win, has taken the racing world by storm, claiming the title of the world’s best sprinter in the LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings. The ranking came after the horse’s outstanding victory in the Group 1 TJ Smith Stakes (1200m) at Randwick, where… Read More »
Peter Snowden has put a bridle on his share of top horses, but he can’t ever recall having a better wet track galloper than Mazu. While several trainers are keeping an anxious eye on the weather ahead of Saturday’s All Aged Stakes (1400m), Snowden is content in the knowledge Mazu will… Read More »
Champion jockey Joao Moreira doesn’t need much in the way of riding instructions, but he will be given one clear mission when he jumps aboard Williamsburg in the Frank Packer Plate. The colt’s four wins have all come when he has been ridden off the speed and co-trainer Gerald Ryan wants to see… Read More »
Australian sprinting sensation Nature Strip will be spelled, following a busy year that saw him compete in high-profile races around the world, according to a statement by trainer Chris Waller. “We gave consideration towards taking him to Queensland, however after a very busy twelve months and the short amount of… Read More »
