In a massive boost for WA racing, star filly Amelia’s Jewel will remain in Perth and won’t travel to Melbourne for an autumn campaign. Amelia’s Jewel confirmed she was Australian racing’s latest pin up girl after her spectacular win in last Saturday’s G1 Northerly Stakes. Initial feedback from owner Peter Walsh… Read More »
Perth Racing has secured what will be one of the drawcard runners for the inaugural edition of The Quokka after it was confirmed late on Monday afternoon that Amelia’s Jewel would target the new race. Amelia Park Racing, which races the Simon Miller-trained filly, announced on social media that the $4… Read More »
A slick gallop with a well-bred stablemate at The Valley on Monday morning has the team at Malua Racing confident Girl can take the step up to metropolitan racing at Sandown this Saturday. The daughter of Zoustar went to the line locked together with Sana Ana Lane’s half-sister Fast Star after carving… Read More »
Hugh Bowman will now be one of the Australian representatives in the Longines International Jockeys’s Championship (IJC) at Happy Valley on Wednesday night. Bowman, who has over one hundred Group 1 wins to his credit and whose unique partnership with the mighty Winx will forever illuminate the records books, will… Read More »
The holiday is over for Melbourne Cup winner Gold Trip, who will this week start his build up towards his autumn campaign. Tuesday will mark five weeks since the six-year-old won Australia’s most famous race and with his major autumn assignment â the $4 million Queen Elizabeth Stakes â just… Read More »
Skirt The Law’s win in the Zousain First Yearlings Handicap for two-year-olds notched the important qualification milestone for next month’s $2 million Magic Millions 2yo Classic (1200m) at Gold Coast. Stepping out at Doomben on Saturday for her second career outing, Skirt The Law scored an impressive five length win… Read More »
We take a look at the latest news from Western Australian as The Pinnacles carnival continues and we close in on the Perth Cup. PADDY’S SHADOW Trainer Raquel Williams sadly announced the retirement of her tough mare, Paddy’s Shadow after Saturday’s Strickland Stakes (2000m). The Dane Shadow seven-year-old raced on 56 occasions… Read More »
The West Australian swing of Vilana’s latest campaign is back on track with the four-year-old working strongly between races at Ascot prior to The Gold Rush on Saturday. After being scratched from the Winterbottom Stakes on race morning due to a leg abrasion, Vilana was given an exhibition gallop between races… Read More »
Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young are eyeing rich autumn races with Uncle Bryn who is about to return to work following a successful spring. The $5 million All-Star Mile (1600m) at Moonee Valley on March 18 is the first race on the agenda with the potential to then head to the Group 1 Australian Cup… Read More »
Multiple Group 1 winner Eduardo will race on in the autumn after a series of tests found no physical issue with the gelding following his disappointing spring. One of the premier sprinters over the past couple of seasons, Eduardo’s form tapered off after his first-up win in the Concorde Stakes in… Read More »
Read the latest racing updates and information out of Western Australia for their race meetings on Saturday, December 3rd, 2022. 1 – Amelia’s Jewel She’s a bone fide star who shone brightest in her biggest race. If any validation to her legitimacy was required she has a G1 to prove… Read More »
Simon Miller has celebrated his first Group 1 victory as a trainer courtesy of stable star Amelia’s Jewel taking out the Northerly Stakes at Ascot on Saturday. Amelia’s Jewel was supported into favouritism late and the surge in support was justified as she surged to a one length victory over a… Read More »
James McDonald’s anticipated visit to Western Australia has reaped immediate dividends with his first ever ride at Ascot racecourse yielding a winner. Here to ride race favourite Cascadian in the Group 1 Northerly Stakes, James McDonald got his first look at the track when partnering Street Parade in the Furphy Plate… Read More »
Tony Gollan described Garibaldi’s win in the Group 3 George Moore Stakes (1200m) at Doomben as not the most spectacular of his five wins in the race but one that was as special as any of them. Garibaldi ($2.90 fav) was a $475,000 purchase at the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale in… Read More »
In the middle of relocating his training operation from the ACT to Goulburn, Matthew Dale has found time to train a metropolitan winner with Cavalier Charles scoring a determined victory at Rosehill. Given the logistical challenges involved in moving an entire stable, including his string of horses, Dale wasn’t able… Read More »
Scoring a third win in his last four starts, seven-year-old gelding Kissinger won the Listed Pakenham Cup on Saturday with Damien Oliver aboard. Evergreen Oliver won his first Pakenham Cup back in 1996 and with Kissinger ($3.70 fav) winning the 2022 edition, his tally of victories in the $300,000 feature moves to… Read More »
Kathy O’Hara has declared Felix Majestic a horse of the future after he claimed the scalp of odds-on favourite Garza Blanca, stopping the clock just half a second outside track record time. Garza Blanca, from the powerful Ciaron Maher and David Eustace yard, was sent out a $1.70 favourite after smashing the 1200m course… Read More »
By his own admission, Jason Collett was slow out of the boxes this season but he has been making up for lost time, his win aboard Secret Glamour at Rosehill his eleventh from his past 38 rides. After booting home just four winners in the opening three months of the… Read More »
After finishing last in a field of ten at Moonee Valley last start, Invincible Caviar put that disappointment behind her to score at Pakenham and notch her third win in five starts. The wider spaces of the Pakenham and a patiently timed ride by Luke Nolen saw the four-year-old daughter of champion… Read More »
âKick Up wasnât established as a resource for propaganda,â says Vicky Leonard, Chief Executive of Kick Up who says âitâs an industry voice with-in for anti-racing sentiment.â âWe are here to provide an opportunity and a place for people to find out the truth about those âmistruthsâ with validated statistics… Read More »
