Blue-blooded filly Kerber is on target to make her debut in stakes company at Randwick and nobody is more surprised than her trainer. A $1.15 million purchase, the daughter of champion stallion I Am Invincible out of multiple black-type winner Eloping unequivocally boasts a pedigree for success. But she also… Read More »
Top jockey Tim Clark says Mayfair only needs to reproduce his spring form to put himself in pole position for a first-up win in the Eskimo Prince Stakes at Randwick. The colt is a $4.40 third pick in early markets for Saturday’s Group 3 contest, behind $2.70 favourite Gatsby’s and the newly… Read More »
Palm Angel has almost six lengths to make up on My Gladiola from the Blue Diamond Preview, but trainer Jason Warren sees enough in his filly’s favour this weekend to bridge that gap significantly. The daughter of Starspangledbanner will round out her preparations for the $2 million Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes in… Read More »
The Darby Racing team is spending the back end of this week scouring Inglis’s Riverside Sales Complex in search of more Classic Yearling Sale stars and if its 2025 team turns out as good as last year’s cohort it will have done well. The Scott Darby-led operation is inspecting the… Read More »
Starting as a humble dairy farm, Darling View Thoroughbreds has blossomed into one of the most prominent stud farms in the State through the committed ambition of father-son duo Clive and Brent Atwell. “The business has been in the blood for a long time, my great grandfather Walter Atwell actually… Read More »
The Phillip Stokes-trained Tom has scored an emotional breakthrough victory for his connections at Sandown. Tom, who is named after a close friend of part-owner Jeremy Payne, did the right thing by his large legion of supporters in taking out the Sportsbet Jockey Watch Plate (1200m) on Saturday. Perfect record for… Read More »
Zac Lloyd and Tim Clark both made the trip to Warwick Farm for one ride apiece and they ensured it wasn’t wasted by taking out the opening two races. Lloyd worked hard for his pay cheque aboard the Matthew Smith-trained Idle Flyer ($1.35), the filly taking an age to reel in Metaphoricallly ($3.50)… Read More »
She’s taking on a giant challenge against a crack field of rivals, but don’t tell trainer Dan Morton that his Perth mare Super Smink is just making up the numbers in her interstate debut on Saturday. Daniel Morton is not sure if Super Smink can win the Group 1 C.F.Orr Stakes (1400m)… Read More »
Tyler Schiller has declared it will take a good horse to beat Victorian filly Price Tag in the $2 million Inglis Millennium, provided she adapts to the clockwise direction of racing. Price Tag assumed outright $4 betting apps favouritism after drawing barrier 11 on Tuesday, while several of the other leading fancies… Read More »
Having been sounded out to run in a rich restricted race in Sydney, trainer John Mcardle is staying in Melbourne with My Gladiola with a focus on a Group 1 two-year-old race. The $2 million Inglis Millennium (1100m) is run at Randwick on Saturday, as is the Group 2 fillies edition of… Read More »
Trainer Clinton Mcdonald is hoping to strike while the tracks are dry and intends to keep Angel Capital to a three-run autumn campaign. That campaign kicks off in the Group 2 Autumn Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday. McDonald said depending on the colt’s performance on Saturday, the Group 1 Futurity Stakes… Read More »
John O’Shea isn’t anticipating Linebacker being ring rusty when he resumes for the first time as a gelding in the Eskimo Prince Stakes at Randwick. The Group 1 placegetter was only seen twice in the spring, most recently when sixth in the Golden Rose after a coltish pre-race display that resulted in… Read More »
Nine races have been set down for Happy Valley this Wednesday with good depth across the program. Best Bookies 💰 👉 View the Best Betting Sites and Bookie Apps
Knight’s Choice is poised to become the first Melbourne Cup winner to run in an All-Star Mile after impressing in a trial at the Sunshine Coast on Tuesday morning. The five-year-old made his first public appearance since winning last November’s Melbourne Cup in the 1000-metre hitout and accelerated impressively along the… Read More »
Trainer Jason Miller is confident Bonjoy can take the next step towards bigger goals against the big guns later in the year after enjoying a golden run with the emerging star mare. Bonjoy will be on show one more time in the Listed Detonator Stakes (1800m) and Miller hopes she can bow… Read More »
Autumn Group 1 aspirations for Matt Cumani’s promising stayer Kingofwallstreet have been shattered, with the trainer confirming the Dundeel colt has sustained an injury and is likely to miss the remainder of 2025. The three-year-old, who finished fourth in the G1 Victoria Derby (2500m) last spring after winning the G3… Read More »
Sydney-bound stayers Warmonger and Lastotchka are set to kick off their campaign at Caulfield on Saturday. The Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained pair are slated to compete against each other in the Group 3 JRA Plate (1600m). Both Warmonger and Lastotchka are on a path to the Group 1 Tancred Stakes (2400m)… Read More »
Matthew Smith is taking it one run at a time with three-year-old filly Idle Flyer, who is an odds-on favourite in the Precise Air benchmark 68 (1400m) at Warwick Farm on Wednesday. A last-start benchmark 64 winner over 1250m at Randwick Kensington, the daughter of Dundeel will step up in trip… Read More »
The only thing missing from the CV of Schwarz is a Group 1 victory which his trainers John O’Shea and Tom Charlton hope to rectify as early as Saturday. Schwarz has yet to try his hand at Group 1 company but will get that opportunity in the C F Orr Stakes (1400m)… Read More »
The dream of a Royal Ascot campaign for Right To Party has come to an end after the mare suffered an injury setback, ruling her out of racing permanently. The Group 1 Champions Sprint runner-up was set to make her return in the G1 Black Caviar Lightning at Flemington next… Read More »
