Star Queensland sprinter Rothfire will not take his part in this years edition of the $15m Everest after the decision was made to send the horse for a spell after his run in the Premiere Stakes on the weekend. Slot holder James Kennedy made the announcement of the scratching of… Read More »
Joe Pride has already ticked one goal by winning the Epsom Handicap with Private Eye, now he is setting his sights on the horse’s next mission. Pride celebrated his first win in the feature Randwick mile when the four-year-old stormed down the outside to claim the Group 1 race on Saturday…. Read More »
Hugh Bowman reached a massive milestone, a Group l double was done by Regan Bayliss while Incentivise put one two of his four hooves on the Caulfield Cup. All that and more in this weeks edition of ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’. KEY NEWS: 100 Not Out For… Read More »
Hugh Bowman has credited his association with champion Winx for helping him achieve a feat managed by only three other jockeys in Australian history. The gifted hoop has become just the fourth rider to boot home 100 Group 1 winners, bringing up the milestone aboard the David Payne-trained Montefilia in Saturday’s Metropolitan… Read More »
Peter Moody is looking forward to the Caulfield Cup after Incentivise survived a high-pressure race to claim the Turnbull Stakes at Flemington. Incentivise shortened into $2.50 favouritism with TAB for the Group 1 Caulfield Cup (2400m) on October 16 after registering his second Group 1 win on Saturday. Having started his career with co-owner Steve Tregea in Queensland, Incentivise stretched his winning sequence to eight… Read More »
Regan Bayliss has enjoyed one of his best afternoons on a racetrack, producing a brace of outstanding rides to claim a feature race double on one of the biggest days of the Sydney spring. Bayliss captured the Group 1 Flight Stakes (1600m) aboard the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained outsider Never… Read More »
For the second year in a row, the Ciaron Maher & David Eustace stable have confirmed a Melbourne Cup starter by winning The Bart Cummings at Flemington. Grand Promenade followed in the hoofsteps of Persan 12 months earlier by winning the Group 3 race and earning a ballot exemption into the Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington on… Read More »
The unstoppable Gai Waterhouse has masterminded another Group 1 boilover with Never Been Kissed upstaging her more fancied rivals to win the Flight Stakes at Randwick. The filly’s victory came a week after Waterhouse and co-trainer Adrian Bott produced In The Congo to upset star colt Anamoe in the Golden Rose and brought… Read More »
Tommy Berry has had to learn the hard way that Masked Crusader is no Chautauqua but the sprinter is an undeniable talent in his own right. The Hawkes Racing five-year-old underlined his Everest claims with a dashing win in Saturday’s Premiere Stakes (1200m) at Randwick and Berry is adamant there is improvement… Read More »
Fred Kersley landed his biggest victory when he guided Godolphin colt Kallos to victory in Danehill Stakes at Flemington. Prior to Saturday’s win in the Group 2 dash up the Flemington straight 1100m course, Kersley’s previous biggest win had been at Listed level in last year’s Cranbourne Cup. Kersley went close to winning the Group… Read More »
The decision to keep Think It Over in Sydney this spring has been vindicated with the gelding scoring a typically tough Group 2 win that has him in contention for a $500,000 bonus. Connections had been considering a 2021 Cox Plate campaign but with staff unable to travel interstate with their… Read More »
Ciaron Maher might have a languid drawl when he speaks but there is nothing slow about Coolangatta, who has lived up to her boom with a dynamic Gimcrack Stakes performance. As he did 12 months ago aboard stablemate Enthaar, James McDonald settled Coolangatta trailing the speed and ensured she had plenty… Read More »
Elusive Express has potentially put her hand up for a start in the VRC Oaks after claiming her first stakes victory at Flemington. The Anthony and Sam Freedman-trained daughter of Jakkalberry took out the Group 2 Edward Manifold Stakes (1610m) on Saturday at her fourth career start. Under the guidance of Jye Mcneil and starting the… Read More »
Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr have taken the opening two juvenile races in Melbourne after Get In The Spirit outsped her rivals at Flemington. Get In The Spirit scored a debut win in the Listed Maribyrnong Trial Stakes (1000m) on Saturday which followed Cavalla at the same track in the opening two-year-old race of the season on September 22. Drawing wide in the… Read More »
Star rider Jason Collett’s little sister Alysha Collett can win her first Gr 1 race in Australia when she mounts ARAMAYO (Poet’s Voice – Peruvian) in the $1.5million Epsom this afternoon at Randwick. She backs up in the very next race the $750k Gr 1 Metrop over 2400m with CHARM’S… Read More »
Racing South Australia (Racing SA) has announced that jumps races will no longer be scheduled on the state’s racing calendar as of next year. In explaining its decision, Racing SA referred to its data-base of horses with the current data showing there is less than ten jumps horses domiciled in… Read More »
Jockey Ben Allen can feel the quality in Instant Celebrity and is expecting the mare to bounce back at Flemington. Allen rides Instant Celebrity for the first time on Saturday when they team up in the Group 2 Rose Of Kingston Stakes (1410m). With Craig Williams and Jamie Kah both sidelined through suspension, Allen,… Read More »
As the temperature in racing heats up in the coming months in Australia so too does the activity in the top New Zealand based stables as they look to plunder some of the riches on offer. The Cambridge based trainer Tony Pike, who is no stranger to tackling big feature… Read More »
The revolving door that represents the change in fortunes in racing is always moving … and trainer Danny O’Brien can attest to that. With his 2019 Melbourne Cup winner Vow And Declare disappointingly sidelined for the Spring, O’Brien will welcome the well-performed Callsign Mav into his yard in the near… Read More »
The Danehill Stakes has undergone a shake up this year to make it the perfect lead up race to a Group 1 race for three-year-old sprinters. Previously run over 1200m at the Victoria Racing Club’s September meeting, the Danehill Stakes on Saturday has been shortened 100m and swaps places with the Listed Poseidon Stakes (1100m) on the… Read More »
