The Tony and Calvin McEvoy stable has always held English Riviera in high regard, and it came as a relief when the filly broke through for her maiden stakes win on Saturday. English Riviera took out the Group 3 Thoroughbred Club Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield to hand the filly her second win from seven career… Read More »
Son of I Am Invincible impressive in Caulfield debut. Blake Shinn and the father/son training team Peter and Paul Snowden have combined for Golden Slipper success and Saturday’s Debutant Stakes suggested they have more feature juvenile races to get excited about. King’s Gambit was a brilliant winner of the $175,000 Listed event over… Read More »
Not even the widest draw for the third start in succession could stop Cardinal Gem from making a dramatic class ride at Caulfield. A Flemington winner last month, Cardinal Gem was making the jump from Benchmark 70 grade to a Listed race in the Weekend Hussler on Saturday. Snagged back to last early in… Read More »
The owners of Winx are celebrating the birth of the champion mare’s first foal, a filly, who arrived healthy and well on Friday night. The filly is by Pierro, who stands at Coolmore Stud for a fee of $99,000. “The Tighe, Kepitis, and Treweeke families are ecstatic to announce that… Read More »
Out of sight, out of mind, is the curse for jockeys as they enter the biggest time of the year. Dean Yendall fits that bill having spent nine months out of the saddle following a fall at Terang late last year that left him with neck fractures. Returning to the saddle in late… Read More »
Grahame Begg is hoping for a truly run Might And Power Stakes for Nonconformist in the lead up to his main goal a week later. The Group 1 race over 2000m will be Nonconformist’s final run before the Group 1 Caulfield Cup (2400m) on Saturday week, a race the gelding ran second in behind Incentivise last year. Nonconformist also finished second… Read More »
If there is an omen tip for the Caulfield Guineas, then the Lindsay Park-trained Angry Skies could be that three-year-old. Rain fell overnight on Thursday and angry skies were brewing on Friday morning ahead of the Caulfield Guineas meeting that already sees the track rated a Soft 6 while track manager Tim Bailey is… Read More »
Stable star Anamoe and Caulfield Guineas favourite Golden Mile will be Godolphin’s headline acts in Melbourne this weekend, but the global giant also has a handy squad assembled for Randwick. Leading the charge will be talented four-year-olds Vilana and Brigantine in the $1 million Silver Eagle (1300m), the pair rated at $9… Read More »
The heavy rain in Sydney has been music to the ears of Expat’s connections, and not just because the mare relishes wet tracks. Not only has Expat posted seven of her eight wins on rain-affected ground, but the heavy conditions are expected to help cushion the effects of a 200m… Read More »
Trainer Neville Parnham doesn’t believe a wide draw will impinge on the chances of his promising three-year-old Snowdome at Ascot’s season-opening meeting on Saturday. The exciting son of Rommel lines up in the $100,000 Crown Perth 3YO Classic (1000m) and comes into barrier 10, the widest gate, after the scratching… Read More »
Grahame Begg has some questions to ask over computerised barrier draws after Cardinal Gem drew the extreme outside barrier for the third time in succession. Cardinal Gem contests the Listed Weekend Hussler (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday coming off a win at Flemington on September 18. Prior to the Flemington victory, Cardinal Gem draw… Read More »
Could there be a Queensland âvictoryâ in the 2022 edition of The Kosciuszko? No way, you’ll say, given that the $2 million event, the richest race in the world restricted to country horses, is strictly only for country horses trained in New South Wales, ⊠but do you seriously think… Read More »
It will be a nervous 48 hours for Sydney racing officials as they continue to monitor weather and track conditions ahead of the Silver Eagle program at Randwick. More than 60mm of rain has fallen at Randwick this week, half of that in the 24-hour period to Thursday morning when… Read More »
The promise of a wet track combined with a return to Randwick has co-trainer Gerald Ryan upbeat about the prospects of Sky Command notching a breakthrough stakes success in The Nivison. The four-year-old has won three of her 12 starts, two of them coming early in her career on heavy tracks. Ryan… Read More »
James Cummings says Godolphin galloper Anamoe will strip a happy horse when he returns to Caulfield for the first time in 12 months. Anamoe won the Group 1 Caulfield Guineas (1600m) at the corresponding meeting last year and lines up on Saturday in the Group 1 Might And Power Stakes (2000m). The Might And Power will be the precursor to the… Read More »
Golden Rose placegetter Zou Tiger, the clear-cut favourite for the inaugural Tapp-Craig, is no certainty to run with connections reluctant to send him around on a bottomless track. Randwick was downgraded to a heavy 10 on Thursday morning after receiving 30mm of rain in the preceding 24 hours and trainer… Read More »
As President of the Victorian Jockeys’ Association, you would think Stephen Baster would be clued in as to the timing of Group 1 races. Before retiring in November 2019, Baster rode 14 Group 1 winners and had his finger on the pulse, but nowadays he is selling real estate on the Mornington Peninsula while also helping his… Read More »
The carnival schedule has been tweaked since Shadow Hero won the Gloaming-Spring Champion Stakes double three years ago, but Mark Newnham has still been mindful of following a similar programming template for his latest hopeful Matcha Latte. Shadow Hero claimed the 2019 Gloaming Stakes second-up before going on to defeat Castelvecchio in the… Read More »
Leading Sydney rider Tommy Berry will give The Everest race-day ⊠the richest day on the Australian racing calendar ⊠a miss and will instead head south to ride at the Caulfield Cup race-meeting which takes place on the same day (October 15). It couldnât have been the easiest of… Read More »
Amenable failed to create any headlines at last year’s Inglis Premier Yearling Sale in Melbourne, but that did not reflect the opinion Michael Kent Jnr had of him. The son of Lonhro possessed a number of attributes that prompted both Kent and his co-trainer, Mick Price, to think he was a colt… Read More »
