As the owner-operator of a horse transport business, trainer Don Robb knows how to take care of the needs of travelling thoroughbreds. So he has no qualms about taking Big Bonanza from Wyong to Melbourne to race at Moonee Valley on Saturday in preparation for his bid to go one… Read More »
The latter part of the Sandown Hillside straight will provide an anxious wait for the Peter Gelagotis stable during Wednesday’s Le Pine Funerals Handicap. Wet-tracker Mossale will have his first run in the 1500-metre race since scoring a determined win over 1700m at Warrnambool in late April. The form out… Read More »
Sue Grills will be out to usher in a new era of city-winning horses when Sweet Feet makes his Sydney debut at Warwick Farm on Wednesday. Grills is still feeling the loss of Border Rebel and Ollie Vollie, top-class sprinters who banked almost $1.3 million in stakes between them until… Read More »
Time flies… and so does our flashback runner at Royal Ascot to mark the first day of their 2014 carnival. We go back two years and watch Black Caviar’s win in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Ascot racecourse. Post your comments below with what you were thinking on the line…. Read More »
Ascot Stakes Handicap £60,000 added, 4yo plus, 2m 4f, Class 2 20 runners Going: Good to Soft, Good in places No. Form Horse Age Wt Trainer Jockey 1 (16) 607 8-57 Sir Graham Wade(IRE) 59 5 9-10 p1 M Johnston J Fanning 2 (13) 4-11 451 Villa Royale 33 5 9-8… Read More »
St James’s Palace Stakes (Group 1) £375,000 added, 3yo only, 1m, Class 1 7 runners Going: Good to Soft, Good in places No. Form Horse Wt Trainer Jockey 1 (7) 11-121 Kingman 24 9-0 J H M Gosden James Doyle 2 (1) 11-21 Night Of Thunder (IRE) 45 9-0 Richard Hannon R Hughes… Read More »
King’s Stand Stakes (Group 1) £375,000 added, 3yo plus, 5f, Class 1 17 runners Going: Good No. Form Horse Age Wt Trainer Jockey 1 (13) 1-18 222 Ahtoug 80 6 9-4 C Appleby William Buick 2 (1) 138-108 Ancil (USA) 46 5 9-4 t1 Joan Scott James Doyle 3 (17) 523 7-23 Es… Read More »
Coventry Stakes (Group 2) £120,000 added, 2yo only, 6f, Class 1 16 runners Going: Good No. Form Horse Trainer Jockey 1 (12) 11 Adaay (IRE) 14 W J Haggas P Hanagan 2 (14) 1 Angelic Lord (IRE) 14 Tom Dascombe R Kingscote 3 (7) 1 Bossy Guest (IRE) 33 M R Channon William Twiston-Davies… Read More »
Queen Anne Stakes (British Champions Series) £375,000 added, 4yo plus, 1m, Class 1 10 runners Going: Good to Soft, Good in places No. Form Horse Age Wt Trainer Jockey 1 (5) 173 7-52 Anodin (IRE) 23 4 9-0 F Head O Peslier 2 (7) 024 27-3 Ansgar (IRE) 15 6 9-0 t Miss… Read More »
Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Treve will face seven rivals in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot. Trained in France by Criquette Head-Maarek, Treve met with the first defeat of her career on her four-year-old debut when just touched off by the veteran Cirrus Des Aigles in… Read More »
Durable three-year-old Hard Stride shows no sign of slowing down despite an arduous campaign that will continue at Saturday’s Moonee Valley meeting. Hard Stride has had nine runs in a preparation that began in January but co-trainer Simon Zahra says the three-year-old continues to thrive. “He’s squealing and bucking around… Read More »
Tony Gollan won eight local premierships as a rugby league player in Toowoomba and is on the cusp of capping a successful winter with his first metropolitan title as a racehorse trainer. Gollan, a front rower, won two premierships with All Whites and six with Valleys in the Toowoomba competition… Read More »
Although Biloxi is about to turn five, his trainer Rick Worthington believes the best is yet to come from the talented sprinter. The winner of five of his 10 starts, Biloxi will run at Randwick on Saturday looking for his third win from four starts this preparation. Worthington has entered… Read More »
Trainer Donna Logan will enter Group One Australian Oaks winner Rising Romance for the upcoming Melbourne features but says the filly is in for a light spring. Rising Romance finished second in the Group One New Zealand Derby in March before crossing the Tasman Sea to beat Australia’s best staying… Read More »
Glen Boss will make a flying visit from Melbourne to Brisbane to give Srikandi a work-out on Tuesday which will determine whether the filly runs in the Group One Tattersall’s Tiara. Srikandi has blossomed in Queensland, winning three stakes races before finishing third in the Stradbroke Handicap at her first… Read More »
Victorian horseman Patrick Payne will attempt to build on the work of the late Guy Walter as top staying filly Zanbagh’s new trainer. Zanbagh finished second in both the VRC and Australian Oaks for Walter before the trainer’s sudden death last month. Walter’s wife Wendy announced last week she would… Read More »
The rematch between the English and Irish 2000 Guineas winners, Night Of Thunder and Kingman, in the St James’s Palace will be one of the most enthralling contests of the first day of Royal Ascot. It will be the third time the pair have met this season with John Gosden’s… Read More »
The annual fusion of high-end fashion and top-class racing which is Royal Ascot comes with added spice this year, thanks to the presence of two outstanding fillies. Estimate, owned by Queen Elizabeth II, attempts to win the meeting’s showcase, the Ascot Gold Cup, for the second year running on Thursday…. Read More »
Avenir Certain has completed the French 1000 Guineas and Oaks double to join such greats as Zarkava and Divine Proportions in winning both of France’s fillies classics. Given an excellent ride by Gregory Benoist on Sunday, Avenir Certain produced a blistering turn of foot to sweep past the leaders in… Read More »
Regally bred colt Rubick is building up to an early spring return with trainer Gerald Ryan keeping Group One options open. The winner of the Blue Diamond Prelude, Rubick finished fourth in the Group One Blue Diamond won by Earthquake at his third race start. Ryan said the Encosta De… Read More »
