Trainer John Sadler is eyeing the first Group One race of the new season with Caulfield specialist Charmed Harmony. Sadler will aim Charmed Harmony at the Memsie Stakes (1400m) on August 27 on his home track. Charmed Harmony is on target to return in the Group Three Aurie’s Star Handicap… Read More »
Trainer Darren Weir will roll out the first of his spring carnival aspirants in the final Group race of the season at Caulfield. Multiple stakes winning colt Mahuta is set to resume in Saturday’s Group Three Bletchingly Stakes (1200m) for his first start since being unplaced in the Australian Guineas… Read More »
Auckland Cup placegetter Sacred Master will make his first Australian appearance in the Winter Challenge at Rosehill. The gelding will be one of four entries for premier trainer Chris Waller in Saturday’s $150,000 Listed race at Rosehill, the final stakes race in Sydney for the season. Marenostro, She’s Clean and… Read More »
Americain’s stallion career is off to a perfect start with his first starter making a winning debut at Woodbine in Toronto. Two-year-old filly Folk Magic, a product of the 2010 Melbourne Cup winner’s first northern hemisphere crop, won a 1200-metre maiden by 3-3/4 lengths on Sunday (AEST). Americain stands the… Read More »
Fair Eva is the favourite for the next season’s 1000 Guineas after giving her sire Frankel his first stakes winner in the Group Three Princess Margaret Stakes at Ascot. The filly was sent out the 4-6 favourite in Saturday’s race and claimed an impressive four-length victory in the hands of… Read More »
Sea King has given trainer Patrick Payne and jockey Steven Pateman another big jumps win with his victory in the Mosstrooper Steeple at Bendigo. The nine-year-old was on his favourite wet ground for Sunday’s race but had to work hard to get the better of Gold A Plenty by a… Read More »
California Chrome has come out on top in a duel with Dortmund in the Grade Two San Diego Handicap at Del Mar. It was California Chrome’s first start since he won the $10 million World Cup in Dubai in March. With regular rider Victor Espinoza aboard, the Art Sherman-trained California… Read More »
Sam Clipperton has had his last ride in Sydney before he jets off for a stint in the highly competitive Hong Kong arena. Clipperton has been given a club contract to ride in the Asian racing capital until December. “I can’t wait to get over there, Clipperton said. “I’m going… Read More »
Paul Hammersley has bounced back from injury to cement his place as No.1 jockey for the rising powerhouse in Brisbane racing, trainer Steve O’Dea. Hammersley missed 10 days of racing after being thrown on the way to the barriers in a race at Doomben on July 9 when he hurt… Read More »
Jim Byrne faces a huge task to retain his Brisbane jockeys’ premiership but he can take heart from a titanic battle from 50 years ago. Jeff Lloyd is now $1.10 with bookmakers to win his first Brisbane metropolitan title after scoring on Angel Dancer at Doomben on Saturday. It took… Read More »
Cox Plate placegetter Highland Reel could return to Australia after claiming his first European Group One win in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot. The much-travelled four-year-old won the Secretariat Stakes in North America in August and the Hong Kong Vase after running third to Winx… Read More »
Melbourne Cup champion Americain has sired his first winner in Canada this morning. Americain who won the 2010 Melbourne Cup was retired in 2012 to stand at stud at Calumet Farm in Kentucky. Melbourne Cup winner Americain wins with his first starter as a stallion @WoodbineRacing as Folk Magic impressed… Read More »
A colt that was bought for a whopping $1.8million dollars will step out at Hawkesbury for trainer Gerald Ryan today. The regally bred America who is out of the champion mare Alinghi and sired by Snitzel will have his race debut in the second on the card where he is the… Read More »
The premiership hopes of Craig Williams remain intact despite a careless riding suspension at Flemington. He was outed for six meeting after pleading guilty to careless riding aboard Black Tomahawk at the 150m mark in Saturday’s Bitalli Handicap. Stewards deemed the interference in the low range and took Williams’ good… Read More »
Long-shot debut winner Astro Castro has given trainer Alan Hunter his first winner at Flemington. Astro Castro was sent to the barrier as a $201 outsider in Saturday’s VRC Recognition Handicap. Ridden by Jason Benbow, Astro Castro defeated Tyrannize ($9) by a half-neck, with Badajoz ($4.80) 1-1/2 lengths away at… Read More »
While Slots’ days in racing are numbered, she has shown what makes her special to trainer Grant Marshall. Slots ($15) won a 1250m benchmark handicap at Canterbury on Saturday, edging out Powerline ($4.40), with Allez Chival ($9) third. Bought as an unraced filly for $1700 at Nathan Tinkler’s Patinack Farm… Read More »
Darren Weir has added another two wins to his season tally at Flemington but concedes Lee Freedman’s metropolitan record in Victoria is safe. Wins to stayer Au Revoir and Royal Rapture on Saturday took Weir to 105 metropolitan wins in Melbourne for the season, and moved him past David Hayes’… Read More »
Melbourne trainer Ciaron Maher will be asked to leave Akavoroun in Brisbane after the gelding broke his long winning drought at Doomben. Akavoroun ($5) scored his first victory in 741 days when he beat Brettan ($8) by 1-1/2 lengths in the Listed Tattersall’s Mile (1600m) on Saturday. The gelding was… Read More »
Trainer Mick Price has been pleasantly surprised by the first-up win of Mighty Like at Flemington. The Caulfield-based horseman was expecting the gelding to need the run in Saturday’s Bruce Gadsden Handicap (1200m). “I thought he was pretty fat in himself but I had to run him somewhere first up… Read More »
Any fears Kerrin McEvoy might have had about Redzel doing too much early in the race have been allayed by the three-year-old’s dominant win in the July Sprint at Canterbury. Although the plan was to lead in Saturday’s 1100m dash, McEvoy worried he had gone out of the gates too… Read More »
