Stern Idol will be out to better his own Brierly Steeplechase record when he contests Tuesday’s $150,000 event, the headline event on Day 1 of the Warrnambool May Racing Carnival. The Ciaron Maher-trained import will carry 75kg in the 3450-metre event. The nine-year-old claimed the metric weight-carrying record from Some… Read More »
Beatty gained his revenge over AfireofGidgeecoals and gained redemption for his only career loss at the hands of that runner when he landed the $200,000 Sires’ Produce Stakes at Ascot. The Sean and Jake Casey trained son of Gingerbread Man had gone down to Afireofgidgeecoals in their previous clash in… Read More »
The very smart four-year-old chestnut Smooth Chino claimed his seventh win from only nine starts when he won the Group 3 Northam Stakes over 1300m on Sunday. He also has one runner-up finish to his credit. The Indianna Weinert trained son of Maschino was last seen in the $5 million… Read More »
Trainer Cliff Brown is planning to press ahead with plans of a Queensland trip with his Group 1 winner Sepals. Victorious in the Group 1 Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield last spring, Sepals was Brown’s first Group 1 since he returned to Australia following a stint in Singapore… Read More »
As confident as Pat Carey is in Recon’s ability, after his first-up fifth placing in a Listed race at Flemington he dared not dream he would so soon be single-figure odds in a Group 1 event. But a stunning second-up win in the Hareeba Stakes virtually compelled the canny Mornington… Read More »
It is nine starts and almost 10 months since El Pensador last won a race, but Rex Lipp is optimistic his next victory could come at Ipswich on Monday. The son of So You Think will be out to back up a good first-up performance in the penultimate event, the… Read More »
For the second straight year, dual state-based trainer Phillip Stokes has won the South Australian Derby at Morphettville with a longshot. After Femminile scored at $19 last year, Wigmore, having just his second outing for Stokes, scored at $41 in the 2518m Classic for three-year-olds on Saturday. Providing Teo Nugent… Read More »
Last year’s Golden Mile is just one of the many races in Von Hauke’s career that Cliff Brown would rather forget and, for a tick over a minute on Saturday, he feared the 2026 edition would filed away in the same folder. But, unlike last year when the regularly-unlucky gelding… Read More »
The Group One Tattersall’s Tiara is the goal for Victorian mare Splash Back after she upstaged several big name sprinters to capture the Victory Stakes at Eagle Farm. The winner of the Stocks Stakes at Moonee Valley in the spring, Splash Back ($8.50) had finished midfield behind Victory Stakes rival… Read More »
It wasn’t a $1 million Group 1, but Jordan Childs was happy to pick up where he left off last weekend with another feature win at Bendigo on Saturday. The in-form jockey took out the first of the Black Type races at Bendigo’s Golden Mile meeting when he teamed with… Read More »
Peter Snowden has continued his incredible affinity with the Hawkesbury stand-alone meeting, adding the Gold Rush to his list of feature race wins courtesy of talented sprinter Zealously. Snowden has been supporting the program since its inception and has claimed the Hawkesbury Crown (1300m) seven times and the Guineas (1400m)… Read More »
For trainer Nathan Doyle, his emotions were a mix of exhilaration and relief after Churchill’s Choice made her winning run virtually next to the outside running rail. “She has been a frustrating mare as she’s always had the ability but hasn’t won one of these stakes races,” Doyle said. “But… Read More »
Country Championships Final winner Chidiac has made a successful transition to stakes grade with a narrow but determined victory in the Group Three Hawkesbury Crown. In doing so, she has provided rising apprentice Braith Nock his 300th career win and an early double on the stand-alone card after his triumph… Read More »
Skyhook proved there is no substitute for class and put himself firmly into the Stradbroke Handicap conversation with a brilliant all-the-way win in the Group 3 $250,000 Hawkesbury Guineas (1400m) at Hawkesbury on Saturday. A riding plan devised by trainers Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexious was carried out to the… Read More »
Promising sprinter Golden Straand continued his form surge and is making a compelling case to be given his chance at stakes level after another brilliant win at Hawkesbury on Saturday. Golden Straand settled back in the field early, jockey Nash Rawiller cut the corner and the powerful four-year-old did the… Read More »
Lindsay Park’s domination of the richest race on Bendigo’s Golden Mile program continued on Saturday when the Hayes brothers produced the well-related Marffiano to win the VOBIS Gold Rush. Tycoon Star’s half-brother led home a Lindsay Park quinella when he defeated Resonant in the race for two-year-olds that carries $250,000… Read More »
Stormy Marco made an impressive debut and led home a Chris Waller stable trifecta as hot favourite Tenenbaum flopped in the Clarendon Stakes (1400m) at Hawkesbury on Saturday. The two-year-old feature is the traditional opener at the Hawkesbury stand-alone and is often used by Waller to prepare his emerging two-year-olds… Read More »
Australian sprint star Asfoora is set to resume her northern hemisphere campaign at Newmarket after drawing barrier 11 for the Group 3 Palace House Stakes. The Henry Dwyer-trained mare heads into the five-furlong contest as the highest-rated runner in the field, boasting an international mark of 115. She will again… Read More »
Yellow Brick, who won the $1.5 million Magic Millions QTIS Open over 1300m at the Gold Coast in January, will take aim at a second $1 million race win at Rockhampton on Sunday where he currently holds down the second favourite status for The Archer. In the process Yellow Brick… Read More »
Bianco Vilano completed the rare Riverina big-race double when he defeated a classy field in the Listed $200,000 Wagga Wagga Gold Cup (2000m) at Wagga Wagga on Friday. Trained by the highly respected Ron Stubbs, Bianco Vilano became only the fourth horse to complete the Albury Cup–Wagga Wagga Gold Cup… Read More »
