A pair of promising two-year-olds from the Ciaron Maher stable have lured top Sydney hoop Jason Collett to Queensland for back-to-back meetings this weekend. Collett is heading north to partner filly Life After Love in the $250,000 Magic Millions The Debut (1000m) at the Gold Coast on Friday night and her Maher-trained… Read More »
Two rising nine-year-olds, both resuming, will give Gavin Bedggood a potential shot at his biggest payday as a trainer. A former jockey, Bedggood has been plying his trade as a trainer since 2017 and during the recent Melbourne Spring Carnival prepared Mornington Glory to land his first Group 1 success. Just Folk and… Read More »
The Lindsay Park team of Ben, Will and J D Hayes have not seen the barrier antics of Global Harmony that had the gelding banished from Hong Kong. A former Lindsay Park galloper before heading to Hong Kong to be prepared by David Hayes, Global Harmony won two of his 14… Read More »
Trainer Danny OâBrien is readying two of his stable stars, Vow And Declare and Young Werther, for pivotal summer campaigns in separate Cup races. Vow And Declare will contest the $300,000 Pakenham Cup (2500m) this Saturday. The 2019 Melbourne Cup winner has shown promising signs after a challenging spring campaign,… Read More »
Trainer Kevin Daffy says there is still plenty of time to chase the big league with his lightly-raced mare Oh Too Good. A winner of four of her seven starts with three runner-up finishes as well, Oh Too Hard runs in the VOBIS Gold Bullion (1400m) at Pakenham on Saturday. Daffy… Read More »
Queensland’s spate of wet weather has prompted a change of plans for smart sprinter Our Kobison and Sydney racing is set to be the beneficiary. Trainer Angela Davies had initially intended to run the gelding in the Magic Millions Falvelon (1200m) in Brisbane this weekend with a view to next month’s Magic… Read More »
With runners at seven different venues across four states on Saturday, Sydney trainers Annabel Neasham and Rob Archibald are in for a hectic afternoon, and it will culminate on the other side of the country. The pair have horses competing at Randwick, Wyong and Dubbo in NSW, Pakenham in Victoria,… Read More »
The Ciaron Maher stable will saddle three hopes at it chases back-to-back victories in the Pakenham Cup. Maher won the 2500m Listed race with Ashrun back in March after the race was not run in 2023 as Racing Victoria tinkered with race dates. But with the Cranbourne Turf Club and Pakenham Racing… Read More »
Harry Coffey is making a hit-and-run trip to the Gold Coast to partner Arabian Summer at the inaugural meeting run under lights. Arabian Summer runs in the GC100 3YO Plate (1000m) on Friday night as a lead-up to the Magic Millions Sunlight 3YO Plate (1100m), also under lights at the Gold Coast… Read More »
It is not often that full relations compete at the same meeting on the same afternoon but siblings Jojo Was A Man and California Grass are set to join that rare club at Randwick. Both by Al Maher out of Jo Jo Girl, the brother and sister will step out in vastly… Read More »
Tricolours Racing and Tulloch Lodge will be out to debunk the theory that lightning doesn’t strike twice with The Playwright in Saturday’s BJ McLachlan Stakes at Eagle Farm. Tricolours won the $300,000 Group 3 in 2022 with The Novelist who, like The Playwright, is by Written By out of a daughter… Read More »
Trainer Gavin Bedggood is set to saddle two contenders, Windstorm and Just Folk, in Saturdayâs inaugural $1 million Supernova (1400m) at Pakenham, with both eight-year-old geldings offering unique stories and solid credentials. Windstorm, a former Perth star for owner Bob Peters, is fresh off a carefully tailored preparation. Racing in… Read More »
Global Harmony formerly known as Pagan in Australia, a six-year-old gelding with a tumultuous past, is set to make his Australian racing debut in the Benchmark 84 over 1400m at Pakenham on Saturday. Now trained by Will Hayes in partnership with brothers Ben and JD Hayes, the former Hong Kong… Read More »
Peter Moody has high hopes for Reach The Peak who broke through for his maiden win on the Caulfield Heath. Moody, who trains in partnership with Katherine Coleman, believes the three-year-old, a son of Grunt, could be a potential Derby contender come the middle of next year following his win in the… Read More »
Annabel Neasham is the first to admit she would usually spell a two-year-old after an inglorious debut performance, but she has opted to persist with Usain Boss in the hope he can rebound at Randwick. After convincingly winning a jump out in Victoria, Usain Boss started well in the market for the… Read More »
Godolphin stacked the bases in the opening race at Warwick Farm with four of the seven runners and it proved a prudent move as they came away with the trifecta â all sired by their stallion Street Boss. It was filly Tempted ($2.40 fav) who came out on top, the half-sister… Read More »
The Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr have called on a set of blinkers for Welwal in his bid to win the inaugural running of The Supernova at Pakenham. The $1 million race over 1400m on Saturday is the second of two ‘slot’ races introduced by Southside Racing, the merged entity of… Read More »
The Mark Walker stable is banking on a change of scenery and a name change bringing out the best of a stable newcomer in the Pakenham Cup. Former Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained King Of The Castle has had a change of name to I’m A Dirty Rascal and runs for the… Read More »
It took Diddle Dumpling nine starts to break her maiden, but with the form out of that race stacking up, trainers Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou are optimistic she can go on with the job. The three-year-old started a short-priced favourite when she comfortably accounted for her eight rivals to score… Read More »
Its still only 2024, not 2025, and Intense For Me is the first âwin and yourâre inâ for the 2025 Breedersâ Cup World Championships to be held at the Del Mar on 1 November next year. In taking out the Gran Premio Carlos Pellegrini Internacional at Hipodromo de San Isidro,… Read More »
