A last start failure down the Flemington straight is not deterring Peter Hardacre’s opinion of Press Down being a black-type performer yet again. After winning the Listed W H Wylie Handicap (1100m) at Morphettville in September, the five-year-old finished down the track in the Group 3 Rising Fast Stakes (1200m) during… Read More »
With eight wins in 18 starts, Tavi Time is one of those horses with a strike-rate an owner can be proud of with the gelding landing victory in the Summer Cup. In a driving duel to the line over the final 150-metres of the Randwick straight, Tavi Time put his head… Read More »
They thought that Ashford Street was purely a wet-tracker but in his seven-year-old season, the gelding has decided otherwise. After a winless spring campaign, trainer Tom Dabernig thought a spell was the way to go but with the encouragement of the horse’s ownership, pressing on with greater gaps between runs has delivered… Read More »
Charlotte Littlefield admits that where were times when she thought training racehorses was not the job for her, but achieving a career peak at Christmas time has delivered her brightest moment in her short career to-date. It may not have been a springtime or even autumn stakes race let alone a… Read More »
Having already qualified to run in the rich Magic Millions 3yo Guineas in a fortnight, Will Freedman see’s Zoubaby’s outing at Eagle Farm on Saturday as a chance to see if a further tweaking of tactics will allow the filly to stretch out even further. The Group 3 Vo Rogue… Read More »
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Step forward David Howden, the launch of your new Thoroughbred Aftercare Programme is the latest evolution in the significant investment made into Eventing. Launched at the Howden Christmas Racing Weekend at Ascot Racecourse its further to the launch of The Howden Way in May 2022, which helps racehorses to live… Read More »
JD Hayes liked what he saw from Bold Bastille in her Magic Millions Sunlight preparatory trial in Sydney earlier this week, but he was even more buoyant after talking to Blake Shinn. The star Melbourne hoop made the trip to Warwick Farm on Monday to partner the filly in the… Read More »
Respected Randwick trainer John Thompson has spent the past couple of seasons rebuilding his stable and he is hoping Gimcrack Stakes winner Bel Merci can usher in his next chapter. With the retirement a few years ago of the likes of stakes performers Dreamforce and Sweet Deal, and a fatal race day… Read More »
While multiple Premiership winning trainer Tony Gollan is busy shuffling the pack to see which cards to play … and where … in what could be a lucrative summer of racing for the top stable, the reappearance of Gollan’s 2023 Magic Millions Two-Year-Old Classic winner, Skirt The Law, at the… Read More »
A thorough attention to detail, taken in a cool, measured fashion, is the only way to make any meaningful assessment of a racehorse’s current situation. Take the case of Hi Barbie, the $2.60 favourite with betting sites who was eased down and out to cross the line over seventeen lengths… Read More »
The second foal from Champion mare Winx (her first died at birth) by stallion Pierro which sold for $10million dollars earlier this year has been given a name. Announced on X (formerly twitter) by Woppit bloodstock who raced Winx, the post read ‘Named after the Latin American celebration of a… Read More »
The team at Lindsay Park was reluctant to label the Lord Stakes a target race for Marble Arch earlier in the campaign, but it has been full steam ahead to the Boxing Day feature ever since December 14. That was when the daughter of Per Incanto booked her spot in the… Read More »
Lion’s Roar is set for another Summer Cup tilt at Randwick in what will be the Group 1 winner’s final race start before retirement. A winner of six of his 40 career starts, Lion’s Roar has achieved Group 1 success in the 2021 Randwick Guineas and he also placed in the… Read More »
Melbourne Cup winner Vow And Declare has run his last race. The gelding’s trainer Danny O’Brien announced on Monday, in partnership with the ownership group headed up by Geoff Corrigan, that he had been retired ‘100 percent sound’ . The nine-year-old finished a distant last in Saturday’s Pakenham Cup, virtually pulled up… Read More »
The Bahrain Turf Series has opened and its trainer Gavin Cromwell had his 4yo filly Snellen as the first ever Irish trained winner in Bahrain, with victory in the $80,000 Al Muharraq Cup. A winner of the 2yo Cheshire Stakes at Royal Ascot, she was Irishman’s Gavin Cromwell’s first runner… Read More »
Melbourne Cup champion Vow And Declare has been officially retired, concluding a remarkable and celebrated racing career. The decision to retire the nine-year-old gelding was made by his owners and trainer Danny O’Brien following his 50th and final appearance in last Saturday’s Pakenham Cup. Managing owner Geoff Corrigan reflected on… Read More »
Persian Caviar became the first foal from Black Caviar to emulate the legendary mare and win on debut when she got her career off to the perfect start at Wangaratta on Monday. The daughter of Written Tycoon proved too good for her rivals when a dominant winner of the Worklocker Wangaratta… Read More »
Charlotte Littlefield has not been deterred by Regal Vow’s forgettable Black Type debut and will give the mare another chance in Stakes grade this Thursday. The five-year-old daughter of Swear will take on the boys in the $175,000 Listed Lord Stakes on Caulfield’s Heath tack. The 1600-metre event will be her… Read More »
There is what appears a much more suitable race waiting for Gentileschi at Randwick on Saturday, but Paul Messara is eager to see her sneak a run in Thursday’s 2000-metre Summer Cup at the same track. The four-year-old mare was left as the lone emergency when the field for the $250,000 Group… Read More »
