Smart galloper Crafty Spirit is set to bounce back from an incident that ended his winter carnival when he resumes against open company horses at Eagle Farm. Trainer Dan Bougoure entered Crafty Spirit for the DSS Law Handicap (1200m) and a restricted class race at the weekend. But he elected… Read More »
Chris Waller has decided to run The Lord Mayor in Sydney but the premier trainer will still have a strong hand in the Clayfield Jewellery Handicap at Eagle Farm. Waller had four acceptors for the 1600m race with The Lord Mayor, Another Dollar, Auerbach and Zourkhan. However, The Lord Mayor… Read More »
WA owner Bob Peters looks to have another star in the making after three-year-old Windstorm showed a blistering turn of foot to put pay to his rivals at Ascot. Windstorm, ridden by William Pike, jumped as the $1.45 favourite in the class 3 race on Wednesday and after settling second… Read More »
Horse racing in the united States has sunk to a new low with a racetrack official being involved in a just….horrible incident. North American racing woke to the news this morning, that a mare who had died overnight, had been picked up and placed…in a dumpster. And she still had… Read More »
Having finished a luckless third in 2017 and an agonisingly close second 12 months later, star jockey Ben Melham is warming to his chances of winning the Caulfield Cup for the first time. Melham was third on Johannes Vermeer before going down in a photo finish to Best Solution aboard… Read More »
Trainer Ken Keys has adopted a different spring campaign with Spanish Reef who returned to winning form in the Ladies’ Day Vase at Caulfield. In the past two years Keys has tried winning his hometown Cranbourne Cup with the mare, but this campaign he has altered his sights to the… Read More »
Caulfield Cup favourites Finche and Mer De Glace have drawn out for the $5 million race. The Chris Waller-trained Finche came up with barrier 19 while Japanese runner Mer De Glace drew gate 21. Big Duke will start from the rails in the 2400m handicap at Caulfield on Saturday.
A decision to wait for the Blue Sapphire Stakes with Anaheed has been rewarded for her connections after the filly raced to victory in the Group Three sprint at Caulfield. The Peter and Paul Snowden-trained Anaheed had been an acceptor in last Saturday’s Group Three Thoroughbred Club Stakes (1200m) for… Read More »
Godolphin’s stable stalwart Hartnell will take his place as top weight in the $5 million Caulfield Cup with jockey Brad Rawiller to ride. The James Cummings-trained multiple Group One winner Hartnell has 58kg for Saturday’s 2400m handicap which has a field of 18 plus four emergencies. The Gai Waterhouse and… Read More »
Hartnell is set to run in his first Caulfield Cup, with the Godolphin team opting to give the veteran his chance to win the $5 million handicap under top weight of 58kg. The James Cummings-trained Hartnell was paid up for Saturday’s Group One Caulfield Cup (2400m) on Wednesday and the… Read More »
Haunted has provided trainer James Cummings with his 100th stakes race victory for Godolphin, taking out the Listed Ladbrokes Village Stakes at Caulfield. Cummings took over as Godolphin’s Australian trainer in July 2017, replacing caretaker trainer Darren Beadman filled in when John O’Shea stepped down. Ridden by Kerrin McEvoy, Haunted… Read More »
Trainer Danny O’Brien plans to use the Group Two Vase at The Valley to test the Victoria Derby credentials of Serious Liaison after the colt’s victory at Caulfield. Serious Liaison ($5.50) came from back in the field out wide and knuckled down to his task under the urgings of jockey… Read More »
Caloundra trainer Stuart Kendrick’s roller coaster week continued when his mare Copywriter scored an upset win at Doomben. It was Kendrick’s sixth win in a week which was soured by an injury to his top three-year-old Eric The Eel in the Caulfield Guineas on Saturday. “It was terrific to be… Read More »
Promising stayer Wolfe has earned himself a start in the Caulfield Cup with a tough win in the Coongy Cup. Transferred from the final day back to the middle day of the Caulfield Cup carnival, the Coongy Cup on Wednesday provided Wolfe a ballot exemption into Saturday’s $5 million Caulfield… Read More »
Prominent jockey Nash Rawiller believes it is only a matter of time before promising Irish import Shared Ambition gets his chance in some better staying races in Australia. The lightly raced Shared Ambition arrived in Australia in August, joining the Chris Waller stable, and made it two wins from as… Read More »
Likening his Everest outsider Nature Strip to a high-octane Supercar, Chris Waller admits fuel concerns are front of mind for Saturday’s $14 million sprint. On-pacer Nature Strip ($23) is tipped to dictate terms early in the 1200m race at Randwick despite drawing barrier 12 of 12 in the all-star The… Read More »
There has been a late twist to the Field for the 2019 Caulfield Cup with the Waterhouse/Bott trained Wolfe winning the Coongy Cup. Wolfe was one of two horses still eligible to run in Saturday’s Caulfield Cup but he had to win the Coongy today which he has meaning he… Read More »
Hong Hong-based Australian jockey Blake Shinn will reunite with Humidor in the Cox Plate if the gelding makes the field for the $5 million race. Shinn rode Humidor in the 2017 Cox Plate when the gelding gave Winx a scare, getting within a long neck of the champion in the… Read More »
Connections of Cox Plate favourite Lys Gracieux are leaving nothing to chance with the mare having a familiarisation gallop around The Valley. Lys Gracieux and fellow Japanese Cox Plate 2019 invitee Kluger were taken to track on Wednesday morning having completed their quarantine period at Werribee. Damian Lane, who partnered… Read More »
Chris Waller has declared rising star Arcadia Queen ready to take on the world’s best sprinters and assume the Everest throne. The leading Sydney trainer paraded two of his three runners, Arcadia Queen ($5) and Yes Yes Yes ($8.50), at Rosehill on Wednesday after they had their final hit-outs ahead… Read More »
