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 »
Trainer Tom Dougall has confirmed that his stable star Go Wandji, who suffered a rare defeat at Doomben on Saturday, will now head to the paddock where he will be given a long spell. âHeâll have a nice spell now,â said Dougall. âHe will miss the summer ⊠we are… Read More »
The new Australian racing season is just a few weeks old but to round the ‘old’ one, the finalists for the Australian Racehorse of the Year across seven categories have been released. The awards take into account performances on Australian tracks as well as international efforts by Australian-trained horses during… Read More »
Duais has satisfied both Edward Cummings and stewards that she is over the issue that forced her out of Saturday’s Winx Stakes and is poised to resume in this weekend’s $1 million Memsie Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield. The five-year-old took part in a 1000-metre trial at Hawkesbury, in which she was given… Read More »
Verry Elleegant may have finished last in a field of eight in her French debut at Deauville, but part-owner Brae Sokolski isn’t prepared to “throw the baby out with the bath water” and instead giving the 11-time Group 1 winner another run in September. The Group 1 Prix Jean Romanet… Read More »
Alligator Blood is now free to compete in Melbourne over spring after Racing Victoria stewards on Monday approved a transfer of ownership with industry giant Gerry Harvey now the major owner. RV earlier this month followed the lead of Racing New South Wales stewards when it banned the Gai Waterhouse and… Read More »
Melbourne Cup winner Verry Elleegant has failed to fire in her french debut running last in the small field. Verry Elleegant was sent out as favourite in the G1 Prix Jean Romanet in France but failed to run on from the back of the field when they started to quicken,… Read More »
Annabel Neasham has had a few second thoughts about her decision not to aim Zaaki at the Winx Stakes first-up, but she is equally satisfied it was for the right reasons. Neasham has opted to tread a patient path with Zaaki this spring and follow a similar template to last year when… Read More »
Two of the Anthony and Sam Freedman could kick off their spring campaigns in lesser races at Caulfield. Blue Diamond Stakes winner Daumier is being earmarked for the Group 3 McNeil Stakes (1200m) on Saturday while stablemate Argentia could start-off in the Group 3 Cockram Stakes (1200m). Both were taken to The Valley… Read More »
A star colt returned with a bang, a WA sprinter stamped Group l potentials while at The Valley, there was an upset in the McKenzie. All that and more in this weeks edition of ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’. KEY NEWS: Anamoe Brilliant In Winx Star four year… Read More »
Bella Nipotina completed a stakes race double for the Ciaron Maher and David Eustace stable at Moonee Valley while also completing a race-to-race quartet for her trainers. After Fast Witness won the Listed McKenzie Stakes (1200m) by a narrow margin, Bella Nipotina had to show her class to claim the Listed Carlyon Stakes (1000m) on Saturday. Those two… Read More »
Untapped filly Zougotcha has put herself in the frame for some serious spring races with a strong win over luckless favourite In Secret in the Silver Shadow Stakes at Randwick. Trainer Chris Waller says the three-year-old is in a similar mould to her sire Zoustar, who he also trained and who was competitive… Read More »
An emotional James Cummings has declared Anamoe the horse to beat in whatever races he contests this spring after his grand return in a cracking renewal of the Group 1 Winx Stakes. In winning the opening major of the spring, the Godolphin glamour became the first Australian entire since Show… Read More »
Jockey Ethan Brown cannot wait for Fast Witness to get onto a firm surface despite a heavy track win at stakes level at Moonee Valley. Having his third race start, Fast Witness took out the Listed McKenzie Stakes (1200m) on Saturday which followed a Cranbourne maiden win on August 4. Fast Witness… Read More »
Rachel King and Bjorn Baker have combined to win the Group 3 Premier’s Cup for the second year in succession, this time with rejuvenated gelding Arapaho. Despite launching his current campaign in April, Arapaho is still finding some suitable marks, claiming the Grafton Cup two starts ago then bouncing back from a… Read More »
Trainer Matthew Dunn has qualified Impasse and Badoosh for The Big Dance after the pair finished one-two in the Murwillumbah Cup. Friday’s 1550m feature at Murwillumbah was a qualifier for The Big Dance, a $2 million race over 1600m at Randwick on Melbourne Cup day. Heats have been run, starting at Goulburn… Read More »
