Exciting three-year-old Zamborghini is ready to make his racecourse return that his trainer hopes will lead to a Caulfield Guineas start. Unbeaten in two starts, Zamborghini takes on some of the best three-year-olds in Victoria in the Group 3 McNeil Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield on Saturday. A debut winner at Ballarat in February, Zamborghini came out the… Read More »
Peter Moody is hoping for the prediction of no more rain and a Caulfield track improving into the soft range will enable Lightsaber to kick off his campaign. Lightsaber is down to run in the Group 1 Memsie Stakes (1400m) on Saturday, but Moody is fearful of heavy ground for the four-year-old. After more than 35mm for the week and 7mm… Read More »
Trainer Kris Lees and owners Australian Bloodstock have called time on the career of outstanding galloper Mugatoo. Australian Bloodstock director Jamie Lovett confirmed the eight-year-old’s retirement on Thursday and said the writing was on the wall after he failed to fire in his comeback from a tendon injury earlier this month…. Read More »
Trainer John Leek is daring to dream that he may have a Melbourne Cup runner on the first Tuesday in November. Fengarada is entered for the Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup and Leek is daring to dream with the former David Brideoake-trained galloper who is three-from-three for his new trainer. Following 1800m wins at… Read More »
Having already captured the Rosebud with promising colt Zoukerino, John O’Shea has unveiled another potential Golden Rose contender in Zou Tiger. The colt made a one-act affair of his first-up assignment at Kensington on Wednesday, bowling along to lead the 1300m race comfortably then lengthening stylishly when James Mcdonald asked for an… Read More »
Unbeaten in four starts, Passive Aggressive faces another challenge when she tackles older mares for the first time at Caulfield. It will be Passive Aggressive’s first start at Caulfield when she lines-up in the Group 3 Cockram Stakes (1200m) on Saturday. Passive Aggressive has been successful at Werribee, Pakenham and twice down the… Read More »
Promising sprinter In The Boat returns to racing at Caulfield on Saturday, but according to trainer, Lindsey Smith, he could be vulnerable first up in the G3 Heath Stakes (1100m). “It all depends on what the weather does,” Lindsey Smith told Tabradio. “He’s not a mud lark by any means, he’s… Read More »
Trainer Mike Moroney may not have been at Sandown, but he would have liked what he saw from debutant Japanese Emperor. Moroney has returned to New Zealand for the funeral of his father Denny who died on Saturday aged 93 and did not witness live the win of Japanese Emperor in the Ladbroke It! Plate (1200m) on… Read More »
The Gong winner Count De Rupee has died following a suspected heart attack during a jump-out at Kembla Grange. Trainers Robert and Luke Price confirmed the tragic loss of their stable star on Facebook, saying he was not only an outstanding racehorse but a treasured part of their lives. “We are… Read More »
Track conditions are likely to play an important role for the Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained runners in Melbourne’s first Group 1 race of the season. Price and Kent will saddle I’m Thunderstruck and Illation in the Memsie Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday, the official opening of the Melbourne Spring Carnival. The… Read More »
Chris Waller is renowned for his patient approach with horses, particularly juveniles, and he is hoping his squad of promising three-year-olds can show the benefits of it this spring. Basquiat and Conqueror are two of the emerging young colts Waller is keen to test with both set to tackle the Group 3… Read More »
As reported in the Herald Sun and on Racenet, the fall on the sand trail section at Cranborne racecourse in the early hours of the morning of August 30, 2019, and the subsequent death of jockey Mikaela Claridge from the critical head injuries she suffered in the incident, is set… Read More »
Expect the annual âfor and againstâ arguments to start revving up once again as the list of international runners to contest feature races during the Melbourne Spring Carnival begins to take shape. Paul Bloodworth, Racing Victoriaâs General Manager of International and Racing operations has suggested to Racing.com that the Melbourne… Read More »
The former, well known, much travelled and exceptionally successful jockey Greg Ryan will be honoured on September 11, on Dubbo Cup Day, with the inaugural presentation of the Greg Ryan Medal to the most successful jockey at that meeting. Points accumulated on a 3-2-1 basis over all races, will decide… Read More »
Lightly raced four-year-old Illation is likely to sneak into the final field for the Memsie Stakes at Caulfield. The Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained galloper is 19th in the order of entry into Saturday’s 1400m Group 1 contest that has a field limit of 16, plus four emergencies. There were 20 nominations for the race… Read More »
Startantes, who has been named as one of the Champion Three-year-Old Filly category finalists for the upcoming Australian Horse Of the Year Awards for the 2021/22 season, will be one of three runners, along with Prince of Boom and Rothfire, that trainer Robert Heathcote will send south to embark on… Read More »
Maddie Raymond made the long journey from Warrnambool to give imported galloper Earlswood a look at Caulfield but is not sold on the idea of running first-up in the Memsie Stakes. Earlswood is among 20 nominations for the 1400m Group 1 race on Saturday, but Raymond said she may delay the horses return a week and run in the Group 2 Feehan… Read More »
Geraldine’s Jewel will return to the track where she won on debut in a bid to stretch her latest campaign to four straight wins. The now six-year-old runs in the Fierce Impact â Made For You Mare at Sandown on Wednesday in a bid to remain unbeaten for her latest trainer Maddie Raymond. After… Read More »
The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace trained Gold Trip hasnât quite established a love affair with Australian racing yet ⊠but, overall, Maher is happy with the way the French import is progressing. The six-year-old entireâs last two runs overseas resulted in two successive placed finishes in Group 1 company… Read More »
The John Gosden trained Trawlerman, who won the prestigious Ebor Handicap under a class ride by Frankie Dettori at York on Saturday, could be a late entry for the 2022 Melbourne Cup. Leigh Jordon, the Victoria Racing Clubâs Executive General Manager of racing, who attended the York Festival, suggested to… Read More »
