She’s A Hustler emphatically passed her first test at 2400 metres at Caulfield on Saturday, performing the perfect audition for an even bigger race over the same course and trip next spring. The Grahame Begg-trained mare landed the first Group 2 win of her already-impressive career when she wore down… Read More »
Eight years after dual Group One placegetter Spieth was retired to stud, his trainer Bryce Heys has celebrated a stakes win at Rosehill with one of the stallion’s daughters. Flying For Fun returned from a two-start campaign in Melbourne to take out Saturday’s Listed Starlight Stakes (1100m) and Heys said… Read More »
Tony and Calvin McEvoy are interstate preparing for the latter’s wedding, but it did not stop them signing off from a watershed spring with another feature success at Caulfield on Saturday. The father/son training team won the $250,000 Group 3 Blue Sapphire Stakes (1200m) with Motorsports. The McEvoys watched the… Read More »
Chris Waller’s first two-year-old winner of the season invariably proves to be a handy horse, and he expects that to ring true for Snitzel colt Fireball. The youngster made a dashing debut to take out Saturday’s Schweppes Handicap (1100m) at Rosehill, following in the footsteps of former stablemates Brazen Beau… Read More »
It might not have been a particularly popular result with the majority of punters, but Eternal Warrior got his career off to the perfect start with a blowout win in Saturday’s $175,000 Listed Merson Cooper Stakes at Caulfield. The Lloyd Kennewell-trained colt defied his $41 starting price to score a… Read More »
Jaegers stamped herself as a potential stakes filly and provided trainer Gary Portelli with a satisfying win when she defeated the heavily-backed Snitzel Miss to claim the $60,000 Maiden at Canterbury on Friday evening. Under a confident ride from Alysha Collett, the three-year-old daughter of Bivouac jumped from barrier eight… Read More »
Limâs Kosciuszko ⊠twelve months ago, when he was making big waves in Singapore, that name would have struck fear into the opposition ⊠but all these months later there is hardly a trickle of support for the champion who won ten Group 1 races in Singapore, who claimed the… Read More »
Racing NSW has issued a strongly worded statement addressing what it says is âwidespread misinformationâ surrounding the future of Australiaâs Black Type system and the Pattern, accusing unnamed media outlets of pushing advertiser-driven agendas and misrepresenting the facts. The controlling body said it remained fully committed to implementing the Asian… Read More »
Racing Victoria stewards have finalised their investigation into the September fall that left apprentice jockey Tom Prebble with a severe spinal cord injury. Prebble remains in rehabilitation after losing all sensation in his lower body when he fell from the Andrew Bobbin-trained Pulveriser during a race at Warrnambool. The incident… Read More »
The Lindsay Park team of Ben, Will and J D Hayes have their eyes on a second win in a Victorian slot race with one of their stable favourites Here To Shock. But first, Here To Shock heads to the Listed Testa Rossa Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday which the stable… Read More »
Yorkshire’s return to the races didn’t go according to plan, and his trainers are fully prepared for that to make him vulnerable when he steps out next in the Festival Stakes at Rosehill. The five-year-old was found to be suffering from cardiac arrhythmia after trailing the field home first-up in… Read More »
Import Unspoken hasn’t quite reached the heights he once promised, but he has been showing signs he is close to ending a two-year hiatus from the winner’s list. Unbeaten in four starts during the spring of 2023, highlighted by his $2 million Five Diamonds victory, his only placing in 10 subsequent… Read More »
Trainer Aaron Purcell will take the eight-year-old gelding Farag to Warrnambool on Sunday where the son of Sacred Falls will take on thirteen rivals in the 2025 edition of the Jericho Cup ⊠a race in which Farag romped in last year by a staggering twenty length margin. Last yearâs… Read More »
Nursing fractured ribs and recovering from a punctured lung, trainer Clinton Mcdonald is buoyant about the prospects of a couple of two-year-old fillies in his stable. Simply Steffi and Tears Of Happiness both make their debuts at Caulfield on Saturday in the Listed Merson Cooper Stakes (1000m). While McDonald is expecting the pair… Read More »
Consistent performer The Great Baby is set to make his racetrack return in a sprint contest at Morphettville Parks. A four-time winner from 25 starts with a further 10 placings, The Great Baby lines up in the Winning Presentations Handicap (1000m) on Saturday. The Wayne Francis and Glen Kent-trained galloper has not raced since finishing fifth… Read More »
Front Page will be looking to be the headline act in the Listed Starlight Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday. The Matthew Dale trained chestnut will be second-up after finishing sixth behind Clear Thinking when resuming in the 2025 edition of the $2 million Kosciuszko ⊠a race with which Front… Read More »
It is a small miracle that Bellatrix Star is back racing in the first place. Anything beyond that is going to be a bonus. The Mark Walker trained mare has not raced for a year to the day ⊠she was last in action on November 29, 2024 ⊠but… Read More »
The Lindsay Park training team of Ben, Will and J D Hayes are hoping a step up in trip will see Alenquer break through for his maiden victory in Australia. French-bred Alenquer came to Australia at the end of 2022 to join the stable of Mike Moroney having been a Group 1 winner in Ireland…. Read More »
Racing Victoria Stewards have issued a charge against trainer John Leek Jnr following an investigation into an alleged race-day breach involving his horse, The Storyteller. Leek Jnr has been charged under Australian Rule 255(1)(c)(i), which prohibits any person from attempting to stomach-tube a horse on the day of a race,… Read More »
Kicking off the career of a stakes-class thoroughbred in provincial and midweek company is often a case of smart placement by a trainer. The more races a horse can win on their way through the grades, the less expenses incurred by their owners. However, in the case of Saturday’s Starlight… Read More »
