Mick Price is expecting Golden Slipper co-favourite Profiteer to bounce back to his winning ways in the world’s richest two-year-old race at Rosehill on Saturday. A winner at his first two starts, including the Inglis Millennium (1200m) at Randwick last month, Profiteer was run down in the final stages by… Read More »
Sky Racing’s Lizzie Jelfs was at Rosehill Gardens for Golden Slipper day 15 years ago, but it was in a vastly different capacity to how she’ll attend this year’s running. Jelfs was part of the David Hayes team that prepared Miss Finland to a four and a half length romp… Read More »
Changes are coming to Lindsay Park with Tom Dabernig set to depart the Dabernig / Ben Hayes training partnership at the end of the current season. The decision was confirmed in a Lindsay Park press release which reads: “The Hayes family’s training tradition is set to continue under the next… Read More »
It is an often-overused description … but to say that apprentice jockey Kyle Wilson-Taylor’s career was ‘flying’ along at a great rate of knots would not have been an understatement. That was before it hit a brick wall … no, not through the normal speedbumps that can disrupt a jockey’s… Read More »
Matt Laurie says the timing of the final Group 1 race in Melbourne for season 2020-21 fits in nicely to the program of Portland Sky. Trainer Matt Laurie has taken advantage of giving Portland Sky another look at The Valley in preparation for the Group 1 William Reid Stakes. Friday’s… Read More »
The Valley has recovered from the heavy downpour it undertook during the All-Star Mile and will be in top condition for racing on Friday night. Track manager at The Valley, Marty Synan, was pleasantly surprised with how the track has bounced back after being hit with rain during the All-Star… Read More »
A trip to Albury for an exhibition gallop will help build the fitness levels of Personal ahead of her trip to Sydney for the Autumn Carnival. Victoria Oaks winner Personal will be the headline act for Lindsay Park at the Sydney Autumn Carnival as she looks to add a couple… Read More »
The next 48 hours are crucial if glamour mare Arcadia Queen extends her campaign after she missed the All-Star Mile (1600m) at Moonee Valley on the weekend. Arcadia Queen suffered a hoof problem earlier in the week and Racing Victoria stewards withdrew her on Saturday morning, just hours before the… Read More »
Grahame Begg will attempt to short-circuit a start for Nonconformist in the Caulfield Cup by winning the Listed Mornington Cup. When your luck is out, it is right out, as trainer Grahame Begg can attest. Begg was forced to scratch his Group 1 Blue Diamond hope Dosh on race eve… Read More »
Wagga-based trainer Scott Spackman only has a small team in work and it will be a watershed moment when his star two-year-old Rocket Tiger lines up in the $3.5 million Golden Slipper at Rosehill Gardens this Saturday. The Cluster gelding wasn’t in the initial list of nominations, but the ownership… Read More »
Baylee Nothdurft, last season’s Brisbane Metropolitan Premiership winning jockey, scored the first win in an important new stage of his career when he partnered the Steven O’Dea / Matt Hoysted trained Ginja to a solid victory at Ipswich on Saturday. An impressive haul of 77.5 metropolitan winners last season carried… Read More »
Boom New Zealand colt Sword Of State will not head to Sydney this week to contest the $3.5m Golden Slipper at Rosehill. Sword Of State was an emphatic winner of the Sistema Stakes on Saturday at Ellerslie prompting connections to consider flying the colt to Sydney for the rich 2021… Read More »
Ten minutes after Champion Sire Snitzel notched up his fifth 2YO Group 1 winner, Arrowfield’s young guns Shalaa & Maurice pointed the way to the future in Sydney. Shalaa’s son Shaquero once again stepped up when it counted, bustling his way to victory as Mazu flashed forward late to snatch… Read More »
Sword Of State made becoming Snitzel’s fifth Group One 2YO winner look easy with a superlative, 3.5 length victory in the NZ$200,000 ARC Diamond S. 1200m G1 at Ellerslie. It takes his record to four wins from 5 starts, with a total winning margin of 17.5 lengths, and twice defeating… Read More »
Trainers Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou will turn their attention to races at the back-end of the autumn carnival for Peltzer after he disappointed in the Randwick Guineas. The three-year-old had been undefeated in five prior starts at the track but after drawing wide and sitting on the speed, he wilted to finish ninth… Read More »
Hey Doc will return to The Valley for another race under lights, this time in the Group 1 William Reid Stakes. The Valley under lights and Hey Doc are a match made in heaven. The Tony And Calvin Mcevoy-trained sprinter will be chasing a fourth Valley victory under lights when… Read More »
Khoekhoe will progress his claims for a start in the Australian Derby when he lines up in the Group 1 Rosehill Guineas. Trainer Matt Cumani has had a few sleepless nights and expects a few more before Khoekhoe runs in the Group 1 Rosehill Guineas (2000m) on Saturday. Khoekhoe is… Read More »
Trainer David Vandyke appears to have found the key to the six-year-old gelding Dissolution who added the Carbine Club Gold Coast Stakes to his list of successes, making it three wins from his last four starts. Jockey Mark du Plessis has been in the saddle in all three of those… Read More »
Jockey Stephanie Thornton continues to ride on the crest of a wave and a superb ride in the QTIS Jewel Three-Year-Old literally had her smiling even before her mount, the very smart Simply Fly, crossed the line. This was Thornton’s second successive win in The QTIS Jewel Three-Year-Old, having won… Read More »
Singapore will play host to a ten race card on Sunday which is the feature International race meeting of the day. View our tips and best bets for this weekends Singapore meeting raced at Kranji racecourse. Race One: 8 Fast And Fearless Race Two: 2 Ima Race Three: 6 Day… Read More »
