Trainer Robert Heathcote is hoping a hard run on a heavy track in the TJ Smith Stakes is the reason for triple Group One winner Buffering’s below-par performance in the BTC Cup. Sent out the odds-on favourite in Saturday’s 1200m sprint at Doomben won by Famous Seamus, Buffering failed to… Read More »
Sir Michael Stoute has won the Derby on five occasions and looks to have another live contender for the Epsom showpiece in Snow Sky, winner of the Trial at Lingfield. Up in distance following his seasonal debut at Newbury, the Nayef colt stayed on powerfully under Jim Crowley to record… Read More »
Italian Derby placegetter Ancient King has claimed his first Australian win at Flemington and will be back to chase a second over the Melbourne Cup course next start. The Peter Moody-trained Ancient King ($3.60) stepped out for his fourth Australian run since being imported from Italy and prevailed in a… Read More »
Taylor Marshall’s first Saturday metropolitan winner was cause for celebration. His second, third and fourth have stamped him as a future star. The 21-year-old apprentice son of retired top jockey John Marshall, came to Rosehill on Saturday hoping for the best and left with a memorable quartet including the Listed… Read More »
Trainer Tony Gollan credited jockey Jim Byrne as the catalyst for Pure Purrfection breaking a losing streak at Doomben on Saturday. Out of the winning list since February last year, Pure Purrfection ($21) stormed home to win the Bribie Handicap (1110m) by a half neck from Metallurgical ($19) with Doubtfilly… Read More »
Top sprinter Buffering’s Brisbane Group One curse continued when he was beaten into third place by Hawkesbury galloper Famous Seamus in the BTC Cup at Doomben on Saturday. Buffering has now had nine starts in Group One races in Brisbane without a win. Famous Seamus ($21) gave jockey Ryan Wiggins… Read More »
Victorian galloper Smokin’ Joey has denied Platelet a second Goodwood win with a barnstorming finish to claim Adelaide’s most important sprint. Coming down the outside of the Morphettville track for jockey Ben Melham, Smokin’ Joey ($41) overhauled last year’s winner to give young trainer Wez Hunter his first Group One… Read More »
Michelle Payne has predicted a bright future for three-year-old By The Grace who has had his issues at the barriers but was on his best behaviour in winning at Flemington. The Andrew Noblet-trained By The Grace was a luckless runner when unplaced at Sandown last start in a race he… Read More »
A fit and firing Steven King answered the calls of two stables to land a Flemington double on Saturday. King has won the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups as well as a Cox Plate but he has been slow to gather momentum since returning from a long injury absence in January…. Read More »
Outsider Famous Seamus has produced a late run to claim an upset win in the Group One $400,000 BTC Cup at Doomben. In a field of seven headlined by triple Group One winner Buffering, Famous Seamus ran on from midfield at the turn to beat Spirit Of Boom on Saturday…. Read More »
Amexed is poised to give trainer Tony Gollan his first runner in a Queensland Derby after his boilover win in the Rough Habit Plate at Doomben on Saturday. Emerging from a Sunshine Coast win at his previous start, Amexed ($16) handled the jump to Group Three company with ease when… Read More »
Trainer John Thompson gave jockey Ryan Wiggins all the praise for rejuvenated mare Pretty Pins winning at Doomben on Saturday. Pretty Pins ($26) drew the outside alley in a field of 13 but was able to get to the fence and then went around only one runner in the straight…. Read More »
Belle Couture’s biggest test ended in disappointment at Flemington as Black Caviar’s half-sister slipped at the start and then ran last in Saturday’s Spotless Plate. The three-year-old won a maiden at Caulfield in her second start last month and was sent out one of the favoured runners on a downgraded… Read More »
Taylor Marshall has the genes to be a great jockey and the apprentice has taken the first steps at his first Saturday metropolitan meeting with two winners in quick succession. The 21-year-old son of retired jockey John Marshall opened his Rosehill account with victory aboard Queensland Derby hope Pinstripe Lane… Read More »
Champion jockey Nash Rawiller believes Brazen Beau can continue trainer Chris Waller’s domination of feature winter carnival juvenile races. Waller wasted little time in opening his account in the black-type races at this year’s carnival when Brazen Beau ($6.50) scored an impressive win in the Group Two Champagne Classic (1200m)… Read More »
A track gallop on Tuesday left trainer Mick Price second-guessing himself before the Caulfield horseman produced an early two-state juvenile double. Price worked Moonovermanhattan with Seenaan with the latter getting the better of the hit-out with Damien Oliver aboard. But Price decided to send Moonovermanhattan to Adelaide to contest the… Read More »
Flying galloper Agitate lived up to his reputation as the fastest barrier horse in Queensland with a blistering display of pace at Doomben on Saturday. Agitate ($4.80) overcame the notoriously biased 1110-metre start when he jumped straight to the front and raced away to beat the favourite Havana ($2.15) by… Read More »
Bomber Brown has given his sire his first metropolitan Australian winner and stamped himself as a stayer of the future with victory at Rosehill. The David Payne-trained two-year-old son of 2008 Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown handled the 1800 metres of the Juvenile Stayers race with ease. Backed from $4.40… Read More »
Brown Panther has sparked dreams of Ascot Gold Cup glory and a return trip to Australia after downing favourite Hillstar to win the Ormonde Stakes at Chester. Former English striker Michael Owen bred Brown Panther who won a 2400m race at Royal Ascot three years ago and finished eighth in… Read More »
In a week when her sister won in Sydney, three-time Melbourne Cup winner Makybe Diva’s six-year-old brother Shadowofexcellence has ended a two-year losing sequence in less fashionable surrounds. But while La Amistad was being acclaimed as a stayer of some promise with her Warwick Farm win on Wednesday, Shadowofexcellence had… Read More »
