A Classic target in Adelaide will come into focus for three-year-old Inflection if she can break her maiden status at Sandown on Wednesday. The John Sadler-trained filly lines up in the Caulfield Easter Saturday Maiden Plate (1800m) and her performance will determine whether she continues towards next month’s Australasian Oaks…. Read More »
Budriguez returns to Melbourne on Saturday chasing another feature win, and perhaps some headlines he didn’t get last time despite a Group Two success. Adelaide trainer David Jolly has decided to start Budriguez in the Group Three Victoria Handicap (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday instead of the Group Two Ajax… Read More »
A restricted race at Canterbury on Wednesday will be a watershed in Zuccotto’s autumn campaign. Trainer Guy Walter has used the equivalent of Wednesday’s 1900m benchmark 70 as a guide in the past with Republic Lass in 2002 and Wild Iris two years later both winning before going on to… Read More »
The end of the road has been reached, some would say mercifully, for the one-time champion racehorse of Hong Kong, Good Ba Ba. The 11-year-old who arrived in Australia via Macau after his colourful and idiosyncratic owner John Yuen Se-kit decided to end the horse’s first retirement after 18 months… Read More »
High profile stayers Green Moon and Sea Moon have been announced as equal topweights for the Sydney Cup with 59kg but neither will start in the 3200m race on April 27. Weights will need to be raised at least one kilogram to meet the requirement for a 58kg topweight with… Read More »
An early arrival in Sydney and an encouraging trial have left trainer Mick Price satisfied he has done all he can to have promising filly Isabella Snowflake ready for a shot at the stars in The Galaxy at Rosehill on Saturday. After struggling to find a suitable race for the… Read More »
Clarry Conners’ hopes of a fifth Golden Slipper rest squarely on the performance of Assail in Saturday’s Magic Night Stakes at Rosehill. The trainer has entrusted Craig Williams to get the best out of the filly who has been battling a well documented hoof problem which surfaced on the morning… Read More »
For raw emotion on the racetrack, no-one beats Victoria’s Gelagotis brothers. And according to trainer Peter Gelagotis, no-one will beat their colt Hvasstan when he runs in next month’s Australian Derby at Randwick. Gelagotis, his brother Manny and Hvasstan are on their way to Sydney on a mission to prove… Read More »
Jockey Bretham (Brett) Tai has died in a single car accident after riding at Newcastle on Saturday. The 37-year-old Singaporean recently arrived in Australia where he was sponsored by John McNair and was based at the trainer’s Central Coast property. Racing NSW said unconfirmed reports were that the car may… Read More »
Trainer Aidan O’Brien expressed satisfaction after a battalion of his horses including Camelot worked after the races at the Curragh on Sunday. The trainer traditionally puts a number of his luminaries through their paces following the first day of the Irish turf Flat season and this year worked 68 horses…. Read More »
He’s one-dimensional and modestly performed compared to some of his higher profile stablemates but there’s always some place for a horse like Tunes in Darley’s string of racehorses. In a team hardly short of Group One stars, Tunes is well down the pecking order although he is probably entitled to… Read More »
Weight will determine whether Hay List runs in the Galaxy but a proposed cash injection for the All Aged Stakes would certainly put that race on his program. Trainer John McNair is exploring all options for the comeback sprinter with next Saturday’s Galaxy (1100m) in the right place as a… Read More »
An exceptional piece of horsemanship has put Darley filly Cameo on course for a serious autumn carnival target after her win in the Keith Nolan Classic at Kembla Grange on Sunday. Craig Williams has ridden successfully on the world stage but trainer Peter Snowden doubted the jockey had ever produced… Read More »
Getting Black Caviar to race once in England amounted to the biggest coup in world racing last year. A return appearance would be a reward for the perseverance of Royal Ascot’s international thoroughbred scout, Nick Smith. Talk of another Royal Ascot campaign for Black Caviar emerged after she made it… Read More »
Form lines converge in Saturday’s Group One Rosehill Guineas with trainer Peter Snowden confident his contenders have come through the right race. Snowden will be represented by Tatra and Derby-bound Solemn in the Rosehill Guineas as he looks to win the race for the first time. Tatra was a pleasing… Read More »
New Zealand-bred filly Fancy Dress took the most positive step so far towards justifying the reason for being in Australia with a last-stride win at Kembla Grange on Sunday. Racing for Garry Chittick under the banner of the famous New Zealand nursery Waikato Stud, Fancy Dress was sent to John… Read More »
Desleigh Forster believes it’s a case of less is more when it comes to training Adebisi. It will be five weeks between runs when Adebisi lines up in Saturday’s Group One Galaxy (1100m) at Rosehill but Forster has deliberately kept the gelding fresh. “He’s a seasoned horse now and we… Read More »
Danedream, winner of the 2011 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, has been confirmed in foal to Frankel. The German filly went on to claim last year’s King George at Royal Ascot but was denied the chance to defend the Arc due to quarantine restrictions at her Cologne training base following… Read More »
Criterion has firmed in Golden Slipper markets after winning Saturday’s Todman Stakes but still has a way to go to challenge Overreach, a dominant winner of the Reisling Stakes. The David Payne-trained Criterion ($6) came from worse than midfield in the Todman and got the better of Fast `N’ Rocking… Read More »
Over the past 30 years, Jim Cassidy has ridden many of the champions of the Australian turf but none as good as Pierro. Cassidy labelled the colt the best he had ever ridden after the three-year-old beat glamour mare More Joyous to win the Canterbury Stakes (1300m) on Saturday. It… Read More »
