Flemington trainer Nick Ryan will consider a Group 1 contest in Adelaide for Regardsmaree after the So You Think gelding scored a dogged win at Sandown. Regardsmaree was on the quick back-up in Saturday’s Listed Anniversary Vase (1400m) after scoring in the VOBIS Gold Sprint at Caulfield last week. Sent out the $2.60 favourite under Billy… Read More »
Enigmatic sprinter Starry Legend was on his best behaviour in a stylish return to winning form at Sandown. Victorious in three of his first four starts, Starry Legend had lost his way before landing the prize with an all-the-way win in the Behind The Barriers ‘Boxing Challenge’ 14/5 (1000m) on Saturday. Providing Matthew… Read More »
Count De Rupee charged up Doomben 10,000 markets after winning a Group 2 Victory Stakes (1200m) in which star local Rothfire was unplaced as an odds-on favourite at Eagle Farm on Saturday. The Robert and Luke Price-trained four-year-old registered his first win since the $1 million The Gong last November when he… Read More »
The Adelaide Carnival kicked off at Morphettville, Eagle Farm hosted feature racing while at Hawkesbury, a quality three year old continued his winning ways. All that and more in this weeks edition of ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’. KEY NEWS: Glint Of Hope Wins Oaks The Busuttin/Young camp… Read More »
The completion of a course of chemotherapy has coincided with a Group 1 win in Adelaide for the Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young stable with Glint Of Hope taking out the Australasian Oaks. Young has been battling breast cancer in recent months and was at Morphettville on Saturday to greet Glint Of Hope… Read More »
Trainer Bjorn Baker has celebrated a feature race win at Hawkesbury with outsider Exotic Ruby on what has been a momentous day for his family. Baker’s father, renowned trainer Murray Baker, officially retired on Saturday following a decorated career and his son was thrilled to claim the Group 3 Hawkesbury… Read More »
Mr Mozart has continued his autumn form surge, fending off a late charge from outsider Dalchini to give Hawkes Racing a second win in the Hawkesbury Guineas. The stable last claimed the 1400m race in 2014 with Chautauqua, who went on to become a multiple Group 1 winner and champion sprinter…. Read More »
The Chris Waller stable had concerns about Tycoonist handling the very heavy conditions at Hawkesbury, but they need not have worried with the consistent gelding scoring a promising first-up win. In a race that didn’t quite go to plan, Tycoonist ($4) camped just behind the speedy Malkovich ($2.90 fav) and the pair fought… Read More »
Agreeable has supplied a bit of light on a dark time for the Freedman family with her first-up victory at Sandown. Trainers Lee, Anthony, Richard and Michael Freedman are mourning the death of their mother Del who passed away on Friday. Agreeable is trained by father-and-son partners Anthony and Sam… Read More »
The Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained Hell Hound has graduated to city company with a stylish victory at Sandown. A debut winner at Terang on April 10, Hell Hound headed to Sandown on Saturday to contest the IVE> Print Handicap (1000m). Sent out the $1.90 favourite under Beau Mertens, Hell Hound registered a three-quarter… Read More »
Snitzel colt Burgunder has announced himself as a horse of the future with a determined victory in the Clarendon Stakes at Hawkesbury. While the 1400m race does not carry black-type status, it has historically proven to be a strong form reference for the later-maturing juveniles with the likes of 2013… Read More »
The Stuart Kendrick trained gelding, Menazzi, will face his toughest test yet when he tackles the Group 2 Queensland Guineas over 1600m at Eagle Farm on Saturday ⊠and not just because he is facing some very tough opposition. âI would have loved to have drawn a bit of a… Read More »
If the strong favourite Rothfire is right for the Group 2 Victory Stakes at Eagle Farm on Saturday, chances are his odds of $2.20 are about on the mark ⊠and what a thrill it would be to see the Robert Heathcote trained son of Rothesay get back to his… Read More »
The Steve Tregea trained Niccanova might be eight years old, but he was also eight years old when he ran a succession of feature Listed race places over the summer ⊠finishing fourth in the Keith Noud, third in the Tatts Recognition, second in the Brisbane Handicap and then fourth… Read More »
Fresh from winning both feature races on the Easter long weekend a fortnight ago, jockey Brad Parnham has this weekend’s blacktype races firmly in his sights. Parnham will team up with Amasenus in tomorrow’s Sheila Gwynne Classic (1400m), who he won the Marjorie Charleson Classic (1200m) aboard on Good Friday. He… Read More »
The Robert Heathcote stable received some positive news with the four horses scratched in Brisbane last week all returning swabs with no irregularities. Startantes, Prince Of Boom, Crymenonears and Starvirgo were withdrawn by order of stewards on race morning last Saturday after the substance Hemoplex, which contains small amounts of the banned substance cobalt, was… Read More »
Trainer Tony Sears has confirmed that it is âall systems goâ for his boom two-year-old Steady Ready who races in the Listed Dalrello Stakes at Eagle Farm on Saturday. âHeâs all good. He is going well, so very happy going into the race,â said Sears. Steady Ready first caught the… Read More »
Saturday at Eagle Farm will provide an appetising start to the 2022 Stradbroke Season Carnival which will cover six high profile Saturday race-days at Eagle Farm and Doomben from April 30 to June 11. Prize-money of more than $15 million will be there for the taking over the Stradbroke Season… Read More »
It has taken a while for the penny to drop for Paper Dragon who will chase a winning hat-trick when she lines up at Sandown. Paper Dragon runs in the Senet Gambling Law Experts Handicap (1300m) on Saturday following wins at The Valley and Swan Hill. It will be Paper… Read More »
Nick Ryan has been looking for an excuse not to start Regardsmaree in a stakes race at Sandown but is yet to find one. Regardsmaree is down to run in the Listed Anniversary Vase (1400m) on Saturday, a week after winning the VOBIS Gold Sprint (1200m) at Caulfield. Ryan says Regardsmaree ticks all the boxes for… Read More »
