Gai Waterhouse believes Magic Millions Stayers Cup winner Kinnersley deserves honorary Queenslander status. Kinnersley was backed from $3.80 into $3.40 favouritism and shouldered 59kg topweight with ease to win the Cup at the Gold Coast on Saturday by 1-1/4 lengths from Anagold ($16) with Bid Spotter ($14) a long head… Read More »
Jockey Damian Browne walked back to the enclosure unaided after being tossed from Royal Jester soon after the start in the Magic Millions Maiden. Browne feared the worst when Royal Jester put on a rodeo exhibition during the opening race on Magic Millions day on the Gold Coast after jumping… Read More »
Doubt existed until the last minute over whether well-bred filly Ms Funovits would make her debut in the Better Beyond Plate at Flemington on Saturday – and the result of the race was similarly problematic until the last couple of strides. Trainer John Sadler said he’d not had any concerns… Read More »
Pre-race favourite Assail has been scratched from the Magic Millions with a foot abscess. The Clarry Conners-trained filly had been the best supported runner in Saturday’s $2 million race at the Gold Coast with Clevadude now heading the market. Conners told Sky Sports Radio the abscess was found on Saturday… Read More »
Three horses with the same mother, jockey, trainer, and owners are chasing a rare hat-trick at Rosehill on Saturday. Garry White will take three horses to the Rosehill meeting, with talented two-year-old Shadowofyoursmile to be joined by her older half-brothers Colonel Light and Color Purple. They are all out of… Read More »
Trainer Matthew Dale is hopeful Signoret can overcome expected heatwave conditions and a disappointing last-start run to give him his first win in the $25,000 Cowra Cup on Sunday. The five-year-old Anabaa front-running mare, a Brendan Ward mount, is coming off a sixth to Baranski over 1600m at Gosford on… Read More »
A jockey who arrived in Australia with three bags of clothes and $500 in his pocket has the most to gain in the absence of Sydney’s glamour riders at Rosehill on Saturday. Household names will be missing from Rosehill because of Magic Millions commitments, presenting the 29-year-old English rider Kevin… Read More »
The wheel has turned, the drought has broken, the ball is rolling. David Hayes probably has a few more cliches to apply to the change he has engineered in his training fortunes. But the trainer who has won seven premierhips in Melbourne, five in Adelaide and two in Hong Kong… Read More »
Michael Cahill believes Real Surreal will cope mentally and physically with the high pressure of the Magic Millions Classic. The Millions is no place for the faint-hearted but Cahill is confident Real Surreal will not crumble under the high intensity at the Gold Coast on Saturday. “She’s a calm filly… Read More »
Lucky Hussler fits the profile of a Magic Millions Guineas winner, according to jockey Matthew Palmer. Lucky Hussler claimed a major scalp when he defeated boom colt Sizzling in the Vo Rogue Plate, the traditional Guineas lead-up, at Doomben on December 29. In the past six years, Gold Edition, Graceful… Read More »
Alan King’s Champion Hurdle winner Katchit has died at the age of 10. The diminutive gelding made little impression when trained on the Flat by Mick Channon but proved far better when switching disciplines with King at Barbury Castle. After making an early and successful start in the juvenile ranks… Read More »
Blake Shinn is in doubt for the ride on No Looking Back in the Magic Millions Guineas on Saturday after being stood down at Gosford. Shinn won Thursday’s Listed Belle Of The Turf Stakes (1600m) on Cathay Lady but fainted in the stewards’ room shortly after the event. Shinn was… Read More »
Premier Sydney trainer Chris Waller’s decision to shorten Moriarty’s races reaped another reward on Thursday when the gelding stormed home to win the Listed Gosford Gold Cup. Waller tried to get the English import to stay earlier in the summer but after he failed in the Christmas Cup (2400m) the… Read More »
British broadcaster Channel 4 is intent on “vigorously defending” claims of ageism by John McCririck after the former pundit initiated legal proceedings against them, seeking damages totalling STG3 million ($A4.60 million). McCririck was one of a number of faces dropped from the presenting team after Channel 4 awarded the production… Read More »
The Belle Of The Turf Stakes had a dramatic aside when winning jockey Blake Shinn fainted in the stewards room shortly after guiding Cathay Lady to victory in Thursday’s Gosford feature. Shinn lifted Cathay Lady to a half-neck win in the 1600m Listed event but had to be attended to… Read More »
A colt by sire of the moment Fastnet Rock has fetched $1.35 million at the second session of the Magic Millions sale at the Gold Coast. The yearling, our of Mister C mare Smart Company, was the first lot to break through the $1 million barrier following spirited bidding. He… Read More »
The Magic Millions Classic has helped shape the career of Tommy Berry who has his sights on a record third straight win in the $2 million event. The Gold Coast juvenile feature put the then apprentice on the map two years ago when he rode flying filly Karuta Queen to… Read More »
When it comes to stakes race credentials, Big Buddie doesn’t exactly fit the stereotype. Nor does his trainer Andrew Sawden. But it won’t stop the pair chasing a maiden black type victory in Saturday’s Listed Chester Manifold Stakes (1400m) at Flemington. By moderately performed sire Lago Delight out of a… Read More »
Champion sprinter Black Caviar remains on track to resume in next month’s Lightning Stakes with trainer Peter Moody dismissing fears over her fitness. A newspaper report on Thursday cast doubt over her readiness to return amid concerns her weight had ballooned by 70kg during her spell. However, connections have been… Read More »
Victorian Peter Mertens hasn’t ridden in Sydney for almost five years but didn’t need much persuasion to make the trip to Rosehill on Saturday. Mertens has answered a call from trainer David Atkins to ride in-form mare Panko in the Become An ATC Member In 2013 Handicap (1900m) as she… Read More »
