The 2022 Cox Plate is the feature race held at Moonee Valley on Saturday afternoon. The Weight for Age race is run over 2040m and is worth $5,000,000 in prize money, Find out all the information on the Cox Plate below including how you can live stream the Cox Plate,… Read More »
Ballarat trainer Dan O’Sullivan did not want to jeopardise his hopes of a first Group 1 win by taking Berkeley Square on a trip to Sydney. The Group 1 Spring Champion Stakes (2000m) is run at Randwick on Saturday, but O’Sullivan said it would have been an afterthought to head in that… Read More »
Trainer Michael Freedman heads to Randwick on Saturday with a team of predominantly young, emerging horses and he is hoping that is a good sign for the stable’s future. Freedman will saddle up a trio of three-year-olds at the Spring Champion Stakes meeting, including Bunker Hut in the feature, while he also… Read More »
Luck deserted Nimalee in the Epsom Handicap, but trainer Matt Smith said the tough-as-nails mare had emerged from the race in top order and was a genuine chance of landing her biggest payday in the $2 million The Invitation. A determined winner of the Golden Pendant at her previous start, Nimalee… Read More »
Nash Rawiller is not a jockey to die wondering. For that reason, there is the likelihood Rawiller could do something unexpected when he partners Mo’Unga in the Group 1 Cox Plate (2040m) at Moonee Valley on Saturday. Rawiller does not like to sit back in races and let them unfold. He would rather make it happen and if… Read More »
As the hour’s countdown to the Cox Plate, the preparation Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr planned out for I’m Thunderstruck has gone like clockwork. Price wanted an exacting race program to have I’m Thunderstruck battled hardened for the 2040m Group 1 weight-for-age contest at Moonee Valley on Saturday. And that is precisely… Read More »
The curtain has closed on the racing career of star mare Verry Ellegant with her owners announcing the retirement of the prolific Group 1 winner. Connections of the 2021 Melbourne Cup heroine confirmed their decision on Thursday following the seven-year-old’s unsuccessful four-start European stint. She will remain in France to… Read More »
Impressive Geelong Cup winner Emissary has moved up one spot in the ballot order for the Melbourne Cup after receiving a 0.5kg penalty for Wednesday’s victory. Emissary is now number 29 in the Order of Entry into the Group 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington on November 1 but remains outside the safety limit… Read More »
Lindsey Smith is thinking ahead with his talented galloper Tuvalu. The Group 1 Champions Mile (1600m) at Flemington on November 5 and it’s $1.8 million first prize money is firmly in the back of Smith’s mind. For that reason, the Warrnambool-based horseman is playing a waiting game to see whether Tuvalu runs in the… Read More »
Sydney trainer Richard Litt says it is amazing to be part of the Cox Plate build-up for a second time. Profondo runs in Saturday’s weight-for-age race over 2040m at Moonee Valley looking to go one better than Litt’s sole previous Cox Plate runner Castelvecchio. The mighty Japanese mare Lys Gracieux stopped Castelvecchio from becoming a three-year-old… Read More »
Michael Freedman is always on the lookout for signs an older mare is ready for the broodmare barn, but he isn’t seeing them from multiple Group 1 winner Forbidden Love. While the five-year-old has performed below expectations in three runs this preparation, there were enough positives in her Sydney Stakes effort… Read More »
For decades, Graeme Rogerson was part of the fabric of Sydney racing and the colourful Kiwi made a fist of sweeping Australia’s biggest races. During a five-year period from 2003, he won a Golden Slipper with Polar Success (2003), a Cox Plate with Savabeel (2004) and a Melbourne Cup with… Read More »
Multiple Group 1 placegetter Barb Raider is the reason Jerome Hunter will be in Sydney this weekend, but the Victorian trainer is more than hopeful stablemate Thron Bone can be a worthwhile support act. After accepting an offer for Barb Raider to contest Saturday’s $2 million The Invitation (1400m) at Randwick, Hunter thought… Read More »
Trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace could not believe their luck when their two quality sprinters draw the two inside gates in the Manikato Stakes. The Group 1 sprint over 1200m at Moonee Valley on Friday night sees a return bout between Coolangatta and Bella Nipotina after they ran one-two in the Group 1 Moir Stakes… Read More »
Somehow, old ownership or new, there is always a story with Alligator Blood. With the well-performed son of All Too Hard due to line up in the $5 million Cox Plate at Moonee Valley on Saturday, a vet check on the horse this morning showed signs of lameness in the… Read More »
James Cummings is adamant Anamoe doesn’t need a Cox Plate on his resume to appeal as a stud prospect. The four-year-old is already Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s equal most prolific Group 1 winner, with six, and was narrowly beaten both on track and in the stewards’ room in last year’s… Read More »
El Bodegon is rated similarly to the Northern Hemisphere three-year-olds who have won the Cox Plate, the question is whether he has the same level of improvement. That’s what form students need to try and work out ahead of this Saturday’s $5 million Cox Plate at The Valley. El Bodegon owns… Read More »
My Bella Mae made the best possible start to her racing career when she bolted in to win by 2 ÂĽ lengths on debut in the Westerntrilogy.com.au Handicap (1100m) at Ascot on Wednesday. The way in which the daughter of Deep Field put away her rivals with a minimum of… Read More »
Sydney’s loss will be Melbourne’s gain with trainer Chris Waller confirming Nature Strip will have his next start in the Darley Champions Sprint on the final day of the Melbourne Cup carnival at Flemington. Connections had also been weighing up whether to keep Nature Strip in Sydney for his namesake race, the… Read More »
Renowned for having a sharp eye for a thoroughbred, owner Alan Bell appears to have unearthed another handy galloper in Warwick Farm winner Golden Age. While the Hawkes Racing three-year-old has a long way to go to emulate the feats of some of Bell’s former stars, who include the great… Read More »
