Promising three-year-old Eric The Eel will begin his road to the Sydney autumn carnival at Eagle Farm despite drawing wide in a restricted race. The gelding has the outside barrier in Saturday’s Class Three Plate (1200m) but trainer Stuart Kendrick does not think it will be a disadvantage. Eric The… Read More »
Brisbane’s wet weather has forced promising stayer Slow Hands into an unscheduled rematch with his last-start conqueror The Kingdom. Trainer Kelly Schweida had planned to run Slow Hands at Doomben on Thursday but the meeting was called off after heavy overnight rain. Doomben has been soaked by more than 320mm… Read More »
Racing at Doomben has been called off because the track is saturated but the upcoming meeting at nearby Eagle Farm will go ahead. Stewards inspected Doomben on Thursday morning and said more than 60mm overnight had made the track unraceable. Doomben has received around 320mm in the past week. The… Read More »
A good day at the office could have been even bigger with a slice of luck for former New Zealand trainers Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young. A Sandown double on Wednesday was small consolation for a bigger prize in Sydney that slipped through their grasp. Larimer Street was beaten a… Read More »
Cloudbreaker may not be in the top echelon of two-year-olds within the Lindsay Park stable but she does possess an attribute trainers love – a will to win that was on display at Sandown. Lindsay Park raised the bar to city class on Wednesday in the Ladbrokes Plate (1300m) after… Read More »
Three of Sydney’s leading jockeys will miss key carnival mounts after being suspended at Warwick Farm. Unless he is successful in an intended appeal, Tommy Berry has been ruled out of the ride on Golden Slipper favourite Cellsabeel if she runs in the Silver Slipper on Saturday week and Libertini… Read More »
After beginning her career with back-to-back wins in NSW, unbeaten filly Katalin is set for her biggest test yet when she makes her Melbourne and stakes debut at Flemington. The James Cummings-trained, Godolphin-owned three-year-old Katalin has tightened from $3.90 to $2.60 favourite with the TAB in an early market for… Read More »
An early-morning track inspection will decide the fate of the Doomben meeting on Thursday. Stewards and course manager Jim Roberts walked the track on Wednesday afternoon and rated it a heavy 10. A further 14mm fell at Doomben on Wednesday bringing the total in the past 10 days to more… Read More »
Despite his outsider status in the Lightning Stakes at Flemington, co-trainer Calvin McEvoy insists Despatch is worthy of his place in the Group One sprint. But McEvoy, who trains in partnership with his father Tony, is under no illusion about the task confronting Despatch on Saturday up against fellow Group… Read More »
Despite one of the potential headline acts taking a different path, the Group Three C S Hayes Stakes at Flemington still has plenty of star power from across Australasia and looms as an exciting entree to the Australian Guineas. Caulfield Guineas winner Super Seth was not an acceptor on Wednesday… Read More »
Brenton Avdulla has enjoyed a welcome change of luck with Godolphin’s Gaulois fighting back to score a tenacious win at Warwick Farm. Avdulla had a testing start to the day when he was narrowly beaten aboard Bella Nipotina in the $2 million Inglis Millennium before his ride in the $1… Read More »
Victorian jockey Billy Egan has guided the Patrick Payne-trained Rubisaki to an impressive win in the $1 million Inglis Sprint-3YOs at Warwick Farm but he won’t be hanging around to celebrate. Just hours after riding at Sydney’s Wednesday meeting, the state-hopping hoop will be on a flight back to Melbourne… Read More »
The race morning scratching of odds-on favourite Cellsabeel has paved the way for in-form jockey Tom Marquand to land his biggest payday, winning the $2 million Inglis Millennium aboard Prime Star. The 1100-metre feature was added to the Wednesday program after its scheduled Saturday timeslot was washed out. The date… Read More »
Pat Webster has been without electricity for four days but he is convinced stable star Happy Clapper has lost none of his power ahead of an Apollo Stakes return at Randwick. Webster has been relying on generators since the electricity supply to his farm on the NSW central coast was… Read More »
Caulfield Guineas winner Super Seth will miss the Group Three C S Hayes Stakes to instead chase a Group One weight-for-age win. The Anthony Freedman-trained Super Seth was nominated for Saturday’s Group Three CS Hayes (1400m) at Flemington and a rematch with Queenslander Alligator Blood, but the colt was not… Read More »
Trainer Robert Heathcote has had his plans for one stable star frustrated and will rely on another at Eagle Farm. Heathcote had nominated in-form Emerald Kingdom for a No Metropolitan Win race over 1000m. The nomination was ruled invalid because he won a Class Three race at a Saturday meeting… Read More »
Short-priced favourite Nature Strip is set to face six rivals in the $750,000 Black Caviar Lightning Stakes at Flemington where he chases his fourth Group One win. The Chris Waller-trained Nature Strip resumes in Saturday’s 1000m weight-for-age sprint for his first start since his dominant victory in the Group One… Read More »
The fate of the Doomben meeting rests with Queensland stewards with more than 300mm of rain falling over the past 10 days. Stewards will inspect Doomben on Wednesday to see if racing will be possible on Thursday. Last week’s Thursday meeting at the track was abandoned along with racing at… Read More »
Surely in the wet at Warwick Farm this afternoon, we are going to see some sort of history made. If Iām wrong, please advise. But the parameters are these; a $2million race with runners from three distinctly different stables, belonging to members of the same family. The Cummings clan will… Read More »
Tiger Roll is no better than 50-50 to bid for an historic third victory in the Grand National with part-owner Eddie O’Leary disappointed with his weight of 11 stone 10lb (74kg). The Gordon Elliott-trained 10-year-old became the first horse since Red Rum to claim back-to-back editions of the world’s most… Read More »
