Star Australian sprinter Santa Ana Lane has travelled well to Hong Kong in preparation for his first international start in the Chairman’s Sprint Prize at Sha Tin. The Anthony Freedman-trained five-time Group One winner flew out of Melbourne on Monday and the stable said on Twitter the gelding had handled… Read More »
Last years Inglis Easter Yearling Sale topper is set to make his debut in a maiden at Ballarat on Tuesday. The Fastnet Rock x The Broken Shore colt ‘Groundswell’ who is the full brother to star sprinter Shoals will make his debut in Race Two at Ballarat (which is scheduled… Read More »
Arrowfield Stud today announced its 2019 roster of 11 stallions headed by Champion Sire Snitzel, whose fee is unchanged at $220,000 inc. GST. Now with a $6.5 million lead in his bid for a third consecutive Australian Sires’ Premiership, Snitzel continues to achieve exceptional sale-ring returns for breeders, with total… Read More »
The old racing adage, “where there is an unraced 2YO, there is always hope,” could not have been better exemplified than on Monday at Toowoomba. Old Bill Brown, saddled up an unraced baby named I Am Courage. He has a white blaze, a handsome head and is by the sire… Read More »
Champion trainer Willie Mullins has broken his Irish Grand National Steeplechase hoodoo as Burrows Saint led home a one-two-three for the stable at Fairyhouse. The well-backed 6-1 favourite was given a confident ride by Ruby Walsh to lift the first prize from Isleofhopendreams and Acapella Bourgeois. Mullins, who also landed… Read More »
Problems continue to dog trainer Ben Currie after stewards disqualified the last winner at Toowoomba, Pieridae, when his jockey weighed in light. The Currie trained Pieridae led all the way to win Monday’s Class Three Handicap (1210m) which was also the last leg of the quadrella and treble. However, jockey… Read More »
Driving down the Hume Highway from Albury to Euroa has led to apprentice Blaike McDougall riding his first Melbourne metropolitan winner. Seeing out the last few months of his apprenticeship in Albury, McDougall is making a weekly trip to Lindsay Park to ride work for David and Ben Hayes and… Read More »
After a torrid run in the Australian Derby, trainer Robbie Laing was expecting Stars Of Carrum would need a well-earned break. But after two days back at his stable at Cranbourne the three-year-old had rebounded so well Laing will now run the colt in Thursday’s Listed VRC St Leger (2800m)… Read More »
Group One winner Aloisia is among the 15 high quality entries for the Hawkesbury Gold Cup, one of four black-type races on the program at the picturesque track on Sydney’s north-western outskirts. Saturday’s annual stand-alone meeting at the track features the Group Three Hawkesbury Cup (1600m), Group Three Hawkesbury Guineas… Read More »
Trainer Tony Gollan has been forced to go to Plan B after wet weather meant the scratching of stable stars I’m A Rippa and Ef Troop from Doomben. I’m A Rippa was set to resume in Saturday’s Listed Ascot Quality while Ef Troop was to make his return in the… Read More »
Trainer John Sadler is known for his patience but the lure of a big prize money cheque has him eyeing off the inaugural running of The Showdown at Caulfield. The two-year-old race, to be run on Saturday, is exclusive to the progeny of VOBIS nominated stallions. Sadler has debut Terang… Read More »
The Eagle Farm meeting features three stakes races but a restricted class event will command attention from a winter carnival perspective. Promising sprinters Chapter And Verse and Cadogan are set to resume from spells in Saturday’s Class Six Plate (1200m). They are being tipped as possible lightweight Stradbroke Handicap chances… Read More »
On the recommendation of jockey Damien Oliver, Absolute Flirt has returned from a break to post a city win at Sandown. Trainer Danny O’Brien had the option to run the filly in maiden grade at Ballarat on Tuesday, but following a discussion with Oliver decided on Monday’s Ladbrokes Handicap (1000m)…. Read More »
The Brisbane Racing Club hopes to hold jump-outs later in the week to help trainers after key barrier trials at Doomben were abandoned. Tuesday’s trials were to feature several top-line horses heading to the Brisbane winter carnival including the Stradbroke Handicap second favourite Zoustyle. The unbeaten Zoustyle is set to… Read More »
Ten races will be run and won at Sha Tin this Monday, where the feature race is the Hong Kong Lions Cup (1000m), headlined by the second career start of boom horse Voyage Warrior. Race One: 2 Great Treasure Race Two: 2 Majestic Endeavour Race Three: 5 Buddies Race Four:… Read More »
Caloundra filly Baccarat Baby has shown the benefit of a recent trial to score the narrowest of wins in the $125,000 Listed Princess Stakes on her home track. The 1600m-race was scheduled to be run at Doomben on Saturday but was postponed until Sunday after heavy rain washed out the… Read More »
Champion Winx and her trainer Chris Waller have been the biggest winners over the Sydney autumn carnival as she ended her career with three successive Group One wins. Her stablemate The Autumn Sun’s two Group One wins signalled the end of his career with the colt off to stud. Another… Read More »
New Zealand stayer Rock On has joined the Peter Gelagotis stable in Victoria with Gary Vile hoping he can race on better winter tracks than at home. Vile is his trainer in New Zealand and is also a part-owner of the last-start winner of the Te Aroha Cup (2200m). “I… Read More »
After the excitement of the final Group One events in Sydney, racing moves to the city’s outskirts for the annual Hawkesbury stand-alone meeting. Saturday’s program features four black-type races headed by the Group Three Hawkesbury Guineas with more than $1 million on offer for the day. The club has a… Read More »
Having claimed his first stakes race win in the Victoria Handicap at Caulfield, jockey Clayton Douglas might not have to wait long for another. Douglas won Saturday’s Group Three Victoria Handicap on the Shane Nichols-trained Streets Of Avalon and could double his stakes race tally at Flemington on Thursday when… Read More »
