In a campaign that has stamped him as one of the country’s premier middle-distance horses, Mugatoo will look to sign off with a Group One victory on the final day of the Flemington carnival. The Australian Bloodstock galloper momentarily looked a chance in the Cox Plate when he loomed on… Read More »
He has only had his trainers’ licence renewed for a few months, but Cranbourne-based horseman Adrian McGregor has immediately built an impressive strike rate with limited numbers. McGregor saddles up Approach Discreet, a horse formerly trained by Mick Price and Michael Kent Junior, in the opening race at Rosehill. Purchased… Read More »
He didn’t quite measure up to the best of his generation in the autumn but Chains Of Honour will be given the chance to make his presence felt in the off-season stakes races. The four-year-old was midfield in both the Rosehill Guineas and ATC Australian Derby after claiming the Group… Read More »
Despite two outstanding rides for wins at Flemington on Oaks day, and a superb ride on Montefilia to grab 3rd in the Gr 1 Oaks, champion jockey Hugh Bowman has once again fallen foul of the Victorian stewards. And it was one of his winning rides that caused them to… Read More »
Champion jockey Damien Oliver added another Group One winner to his amazing resume but it was a first for the training team of Tom Dabernig and Ben Hayes when they combined with Personal to win the VRC Oaks. For Oliver it was his sixth win in the fillies classic, his… Read More »
Read what each of the jockeys had to say about the runs of their mounts in the 2020 VRC Oaks at Flemington on Thursday. Winning Jockey: Damien Oliver “It was a good tough effort. It was a real slog, the last four or five hundred metres with the second and… Read More »
The Lindsay Park trained Personal has bounced back from her defeat in Saturday’s Wakeful Stakes to win the $1m VRC Oaks at Flemington. Personal was beaten as the heavily backed favourite in the G2 Wakeful Stakes on Saturday but bounced back in todays feature at Flemington the VRC Oaks for… Read More »
Flying machine Ancestry completed a perfect campaign when he made it four wins from as many starts with an all-the-way effort in the Century Stakes. And as he has done in all of those wins he led throughout for apprentice Michael Poy, who claimed his first race at the Flemington… Read More »
Two-year-old filly Dosh did her best to throw away the Ottawa Stakes with her waywardness in the closing stages but she still found enough to prevail and set herself up for her next campaign. Dosh ($5.50 equal fav) looked certain to win before she veered out late and only just… Read More »
Impressive Randwick winner Tiger Of Malay has been scratched from the $1 million Golden Gift after pulling up sore following trackwork. Trainers Richard and Michael Freedman confirmed the colt would be spelled immediately with a view to the autumn two-year-old races. “He pulled up slightly sore behind and with the… Read More »
Talented mare Love You Lucy has drawn perfectly for her Doomben assignment but trainer Barry Squair is not convinced it is an advantage. Squair believes Love You Lucy performs at her best racing outside other runners. For that reason, he is hoping jockey Jim Byrne can steer Love You Lucy… Read More »
Goulburn trainer Danny Williams is taking two horses to Rosehill this weekend on a quick three-day back up, but he sees no reason why they both can’t acquit themselves well. Rent A Rock was a handy winner over 1600m on his home surface on Wednesday and Williams will step him… Read More »
The number one horse in Tony McEvoy’s stable, Hey Doc is ready for the challenge of the VRC Sprint Classic and the co-trainer knows he will give his all in the race. McEvoy isn’t certain Hey Doc can win the race, which he regards as the best sprint event of… Read More »
Trainer Bjorn Baker has nine runners accepted for the Rosehill meeting but will wait to see what the weather does over the next 48 hours before deciding which of them will run. Baker has experienced a fruitful carnival to date, highlighted by Positive Peace’s last-start victory in the Group Three… Read More »
Tamworth trainer Cody Morgan didn’t have much luck from the barrier gods in The Kosciuszko with his three runners all drawing outside gates. However, he has fared much better in the Country Classic at Rosehill on Saturday with Bajan Gold coming up with the inside alley for the 2000m race…. Read More »
When Rekindling won the 2017 Melbourne Cup his trainer Joseph O’Brien became the youngest winning trainer in Cup history. He was twenty-four years old at the time and was winning the Cup at his first attempt. Fast forward to 2020 and the young man is now a two-time Cup winner… Read More »
After winning on debut then drawing a good fate in the $1million Golden Gift, it looked like TIGER OF MALAY had a huge chance. But he will not be running. Team Freedman has sadly had to scratch him after he pulled up sore in the hindquarters this morning after track… Read More »
Hugh Bowman will partner Nature Strip in the VRC Sprint Classic after James McDonald lost his appeal against a careless riding suspension. McDonald has been the horse’s regular rider for the past two seasons and was in the saddle for his last-start seventh in The Everest. But after being outed… Read More »
Brothers and training partners Richard and Michael Freedman will field a strong team at Rosehill and they are particularly keen on two-year-old colt Tiger Of Malay in the $1 million Golden Gift. The Extreme Choice youngster was impressive on debut at Randwick when he defeated Cerda and Mura Mura and… Read More »
Tom Dabernig doesn’t think there is a better way to attack the Mackinnon Stakes than with a pair of horses who are proven at the track, distance and class. Dabernig and Ben Hayes will be represented by two horses who between them can boast wins in the past three Australian… Read More »
