Adrian Bott will happily take a Listed win at Randwick to kick-start the stable’s partnership with leviathan owner John Stewart, but he hopes Lady Moscato can deliver her connections even bigger prizes down the track. The two-year-old daughter of Home Affairs out of multiple Group 1 placegetter Champagne Cuddles fetched $1,050,000 at… Read More »
Caulfield Guineas placegetter Planet Red will have his return run in a Stakes race at Caulfield. The Group 2 Autumn Stakes (1400m) on Saturday will be Planet Red’s sole outing in the lead-up to the Group 1 Australian Guineas (1600m) at Flemington on February 28. The Mick Price and Michael Kent… Read More »
Anthony and Sam Freedman are no strangers to winning Victoria’s premier two-year-old race. The father-and-son training team took out the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield with Artorius in 2021 and then again, the following year with Daumier. This year they are hoping to get High Alert into the 1200m contest on February 21 and… Read More »
Ciaron Maher’s decision to deviate from the usual autumn carnival playbook with Tempted has gifted Chad Schofield a golden opportunity aboard the star filly. With champion hoop James Mcdonald committed to Coolmore-owned colt Wodeton in Saturday’s Eskimo Prince Stakes (1200m) at Randwick, Schofield has picked up the plum ride on the Everest runner-up…. Read More »
Fresh from a Canonbury Stakes victory that rocketed Hidrix to Golden Slipper favouritism, Chris Waller will put another trio of two-year-olds to the test at Randwick. Fireball and Defensemen will step out in the $2 million Inglis Millennium (1100m), a race the champion trainer is yet to win, while Campione D’Italia will make his debut… Read More »
Victorian visitor Johnich has opened favourite for Friday’s $150,000 Tasmanian Derby in Hobart, with Lachlan Neindorf booked to ride the Dundeel gelding. Prepared by Jason Warren, the three-year-old is coming off a last-start second over 2000 metres at Flemington behind Our Chief and is one of three middle-distance runners the… Read More »
Can Hell burn off the opposition on Saturday? That will be the task facing the very speedy Tony Gollan trained five-year-old gelding when he takes his place in an Open Handicap over 1200m at Eagle Farm on Saturday. The son of Hellbent won in typical fashion two runs back in… Read More »
Connections of beautifully bred filly Scintillation are in two-minds about whether to run her from a wide draw in the Lonhro Plate or wait for a softer midweek assignment. By super sire I Am Invincible out of multiple stakes winner Minhaaj, the youngster has twice trialled nicely in preparation for… Read More »
Apprentice jockey Jai Williams has announced his arrival on the metropolitan scene in Queensland in such an emphatic fashion that it might have enthusiasts searching the record books. When last has an apprentice ridden four wjnners in town at two consecutive metropolitan meetings would be the question? Whatever the answer,… Read More »
Kaye Jay has come a long way since his first competitive effort under the care of Clayton Douglas. Now Douglas is contemplating setting Kaye Jay for the Group 1 South Australian Derby (2500m) at Morphettville in May after the gelding’s maiden win at Sandown. Having his second race start, Kaye Jay ($5) scored a… Read More »
The longer distance fillies’ features await new kid on the block Feminino after she broke her maiden with a determined win at Warwick Farm. Co-trainer Adrian Bott admitted he thought she might have needed further than the 1400-metres of Wednesday’s Arrowfield Graduates Handicap, but Feminino’s ($4.40) stamina was on display as… Read More »
Press Link is back in business and is taking up from pretty much where he left off in Australia … but it has been a while. Press Link’s win at Eagle Farm on Saturday came not only in his first run in thirteen-and-a-half months, but also in his first run… Read More »
The Anthony and Sam Freedman stable is looking for a smoother autumn campaign with Tom Kitten than the one that confronted them in the spring. Throughout the spring, Tom Kitten was playing catch-up after being a scratching at the barriers in the Group 1 Memsie Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield last August. That was Tom Kitten’s first… Read More »
The Chris and Corey Munce training partnership has already sent out forty-one metropolitan winners in the current season which has only just passed the halfway mark. The fact that is six more metropolitan winners than they managed throughout the whole of last season underlines the steepness of the stable’s upward… Read More »
The Lindsay Park stable is confident the Blue Diamond Stakes aspirations of two-year-old Eurocanto are back on track. The Ben, Will and J D Hayes-trained two-year-old was sent back to the trials after being withdrawn from the Blue Diamond Preview (1000m) at Caulfield on January 24. Eurocanto played up in the gates that… Read More »
Where’s The Circus goes in search of another big Inglis payday in this Saturday’s Inglis Millennium and the bargain buy’s connections aren’t the only ones with fingers crossed for another win. Less than 24 hours after the $2 million race restricted to Inglis graduates is run at Randwick, the Paul Murray-trained… Read More »
Multiple Group 1 winner Think About It has died after suffering complications following colic surgery. Proven Thoroughbreds confirmed the Australian-bred gelding was euthanised after his condition deteriorated at Randwick Equine Centre. The seven-year-old was one of the standout sprinters of his generation, rising rapidly through the ranks during a remarkable… Read More »
An eight racecard is to be run at Sandown on the Hillside circuit on Wednesday. The track is rated a Good 4 and the rail is out 6 metres the entire course. Expecting the track to be play fair and tempo/talent to be the determining factor as to how races… Read More »
Trainer Clayton Douglas has Group 1 autumn aspirations with Top Reward who will kick off his campaign in a Stakes race at Caulfield. The Group 2 Autumn Stakes (1400m) on Saturday will see the return of the son of Shamus Award who raced twice during the spring before being sent for a… Read More »
Multiple Group 1 winner Jimmysstar will have a light autumn in preparation for a spring campaign aimed at The Everest. The Ciaron Maher-trained galloper will kick off in Melbourne with the Group 1 William Reid Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield before venturing north where he will contest the Group 1 TJ Smith (1200m)… Read More »
