We take a look at each of the horses in the 2020 Magic Millions Classic Field and list their breeding as well as their sale prices at last years Magic Millions sales. No Horse Breeding Price 1 KING’S LEGACY Redoute’s Choice x Breakfast In Bed $1,400,000 2 FARNAN Not A Single… Read More »
A strong ten race card will be run and won at Sha Tin on Saturday, where the feature race is the Lok Sin Tong Anniversary Cup, a Class Three event over 1650m on the dirt. Race One: 9 Wayfoong Star Race Two: 1 Savvy Seven Race Three: 1 Inner Flame… Read More »
Vega One will miss the southern autumn carnivals no matter how well he runs in the $1 million Magic Millions Cup at the Gold Coast. Trainer Tony Gollan has already inked in the $1.5 million Group One Stradbroke Handicap on June as Vega One’s main target in 2020. “He has… Read More »
Trainer Chris Anderson is certain if the $2 million Magic Millions Guineas turns into a rough-house affair Profit will be up for the battle. Profit is taking on the short-priced Guineas favourite Alligator Blood for the second time at the Gold Coast on Saturday. At their previous clash, Alligator Blood… Read More »
Clare Cunningham is preparing to nut out a game plan for Cradle Mountain ahead of his Randwick return in a race where tactics appear vital. A field of seven will line up in the Bisley Workwear Handicap (1200m) on Saturday with up to five of the runners, including Cradle Mountain,… Read More »
Group One-winning colt Microphone has won a jump-out at Flemington as he prepares for his return to the races. In a heat featuring Caulfield Guineas winner Super Seth on Friday morning, Microphone led most of the way over 800m to beat Highland Beat with Super Seth third. Microphone was second… Read More »
Progressive Dubbo gelding Toulon Brook will take the first step in a campaign geared towards the Country Championship when he resumes in the Highway Handicap at Randwick. The lightly raced son of Hinchinbrook has shown promise winning three of his seven starts, rounding out his most recent preparation with a… Read More »
Champion trainer Chris Waller does not have a runner in either of the main races but still has a chance to write Magic Millions history at the Good Coast. No horse has won the same Magic Millions race three years in a row but Waller will have Invincibella in the… Read More »
Defending champion Chapter and Verse needs only a touch of luck in the $1 million Magic Millions QTIS at the Gold Coast to become trainer Desleigh Forster’s first million dollar earner. Chapter and Verse showed he was on course for back-to- back Magic Millions QTIS wins after he won the… Read More »
Gerald Ryan has been active at the opening days of the Magic Millions sale at the Gold Coast but his attention is turning to Sydney where he has three runners at Randwick. At what has been a buoyant sale, Ryan bought a Snitzel colt out of two-time winner Asinara for… Read More »
Blazejowski was able to rise through the grades during his previous racing campaign and trainer Greg Eurell believes the signs are positive he can take another step up this time around. The five-year-old gelding runs for the first time since June in Saturday’s Furlong Bar Handicap (1100m) at Flemington, with… Read More »
Sydney three-year-old Diamond Thunder will wear blinkers for the first time in his attempt to cause an upset over Alligator Blood at the Gold Coast. Diamond Thunder is one of the few runners given any chance against short-priced favourite Alligator Blood in Saturday’s $2 million Magic Millions Guineas (1400m). Trained… Read More »
When Koby Jennings looks back on 2019, he remembers it as a year of challenge and reward. The challenges started early when his father, Troy Kilgower, underwent treatment for cancer. Between riding engagements, the NSW-based Jennings travelled home to be with his family who live in Victoria’s Gippsland region. It… Read More »
Trainer Matt Dunn’s past association with the family of Lady Banff could be the impetus for his biggest pay day in the Magic Millions 2YO Classic. Dunn is convinced Lady Banff should be unbeaten going into the $2 million 1200m-race at the Gold Coast on Saturday. Lady Banff won her… Read More »
Multiple Group One winner Benbatl has outclassed his rivals on his return to action at Meydan in the Singspiel Stakes. Saeed bin Suroor’s stable star won the Dubai Turf, the Grosser Dallmayr Preis in Germany and Caulfield Stakes in Australia in a stellar 2018 which he rounded off with a… Read More »
Ottavio Galletta is the new owner of a $1.9 million colt, the most expensive yearling sold so far at the annual Magic Millions sale at the Gold Coast. By the late Deep Impact out of Group winner Honesty Prevails, the colt, consigned by Arrowfield Stud and to be trained by… Read More »
Trainer Robert Heathcote hopes his luck with horses raced by big syndicates at Doomben carries over to the Gold Coast. The Heathcote-trained Ready For Magic ($6.50) won at Thursday’s meeting for a Flying Start syndicate before a Rob Slade syndicated horse, Spirit Rich ($10), won. Heathcote racked up a treble… Read More »
Apprentice Fred Kersley will be out to add to a recent sequence of winners at Saturday metropolitan meetings when he heads to Flemington. Kersley has managed to ride at least one winner at each of the past five Saturday meetings in Victoria, starting with a winning double on the Pakenham… Read More »
Memories of late trainer Kelso Wood will be revived when Kavak runs in the $2 million Magic Millions 2YO Classic at the Gold Coast. Wood, who died aged 72 in September 2018, won the race with Real Surreal in 2013, the second time he had the first horse past the… Read More »
Mark Newnham is hoping to get a deeper insight into the carnival credentials of progressive pair Splintex and Academy when they contest separate races at Randwick. The speedy Splintex, who boasts a victory over subsequent Group One winner Exceedance, tackles the Bushfire Appeal Race Day 25th January Handicap (1000m) on… Read More »
