With More Joyous moving on to Melbourne, Guy Walter’s Angst Stakes runners have a gilt-edged chance to improve on their last-start stakes placings at Rosehill on Saturday. Skyerush and Forarainyday led in the chasing pack behind champion mare More Joyous in the Group Three Golden Pendant (1400m) two weeks ago… Read More »
Josh Parr might just be the first jockey at Rosehill on Saturday. Parr had a “nightmare” run getting to Randwick last Saturday but arrived in the nick of time to win the Gimcrack Stakes in his only ride for the day. That was for Peter Moody and Parr teams with… Read More »
The Cox Plate prospects of the race’s lone international runner Afsare remain alive despite a leg injury that has upset his training program. The Luca Cumani-trained Afsare suffered the injury to his near side foreleg during exercise on Tuesday but has made steady improvement since. “It started to get some… Read More »
When Craig Williams rode Adelaide youngster Fire Thunderbolt to victory at Flemington in the autumn he described him as the best two-year-old he’d ridden so far that season. Williams is back on board at Caulfield on Saturday and Fire Thunderbolt’s trainer Phillip Stokes is hoping the jockey will be similarly… Read More »
A reduced field means imported stayer Sanagas is set to make improvement in the Group One Caulfield Stakes on Saturday. The gelding was scratched from the Turnbull Stakes last week following poor runs in his opening two races in Australia after arriving from the United States. But jockey Brad Rawiller… Read More »
Their horses are fit and well and ready to run the race of their lives. But none of the trainers lined up against Pierro and Gai Waterhouse in Saturday’s $1 million Group One Caulfield Guineas are rehearsing victory speeches. Pierro and Waterhouse are as formidable a combination as will be… Read More »
More Joyous is in superior form ahead of Saturday’s Group One Toorak Handicap at Caulfield than she was when she won the race two years ago, according to jockey Nash Rawiller. The Gai Waterhouse-trained mare will lump 60kg as she chases her seventh consecutive victory. More Joyous carried 58kg in… Read More »
Interstate plans are firmly on the agenda for Poste Restante if she performs up to the expectations of trainer Desleigh Forster at Doomben on Saturday. Poste Restante has her first start for Forster after she campaigned during the winter carnival when prepared by New Zealand trainer Howie Mathews. “I’ve had… Read More »
Kieren Fallon has admitted his days as a rider are numbered and that he may yet consider a new career as a trainer. The six-time champion jockey, who has had turbulent times over the years, is now 47 and although he he can count on rides from the likes of… Read More »
Andrew Hawkins: Welcome to Run for the Money, a new internet-based roundtable discussing the weekend’s racing! It’s Andrew Hawkins here, joined by two young guns in Jay Mathieson and Joshua Kayll as we look towards this weekend’s Caulfield Guineas Day! Welcome gents, excited for a big weekend of racing? Jay… Read More »
Dual Derby winner Camelot has undergone exploratory colic surgery, Coolmore have said. The colt, who just failed to become the first Triple Crown winner in more than 40 years at Doncaster last month, has been admitted to Fethard Veterinary Hospital in Ireland. Camelot ran in the Prix de l’Arc de… Read More »
The Caulfield Stakes has lost one of its main contenders in Manighar but that hasn’t changed anything for Glen Boss who rides the favourite Ocean Park. Boss expects Ocean Park to keep his impressive spring form going at Caulfield on Saturday to set up a mouth-watering $3 million Cox Plate… Read More »
Buffering has completely recovered from a reaction to a vaccination but the stable says he could still be vulnerable in Saturday’s Group Two Schillaci Stakes (1000m) at Caulfield. Robert Heathcote’s travelling representative Melissa Leitch says there is a slight concern over Queensland’s reigning Horse of the Year coming back from… Read More »
Punters are steering away from topweights More Joyous and King Mufhasa in Saturday’s Toorak Handicap, throwing their support behind Queenslander Solzhenitsyn. More Joyous, who won the 2010 Caulfield feature, will carry 60 kilograms, half a kilo more than last year’s winner King Mufhasa while Solzhenitsyn is on the 52kg limit…. Read More »
James McDonald’s spring carnival campaign in Melbourne could provide a couple of firsts for the talented jockey. But one appears more likely than the other. McDonald is chasing a first Melbourne Group One win this spring, and he is also yet to taste success in a Group One Guineas race… Read More »
A new multi-million synthetic training track at Warwick Farm will give trainers the `best of both worlds’ in surfaces and could be good enough for barrier trials, trainers say. The new $4.5 million Pro-Ride training surface is a combination of selected sands, binders and cushioning fibres and is expected to… Read More »
Grahame Begg is still feeling his way with Canadian import Sense Of Pride but expects Saturday’s Listed Angst Stakes to provide some answers. Sense Of Pride was a dual Listed placegetter in Canada as a two-year-old and won two races on dirt over 1710m at Woodbine in Canada before coming… Read More »
Gai Waterhouse says unbeaten super colt Pierro is just getting started and has compared what he’s done so far in his career to past champion Tulloch ahead of his attempt at a rare double at Caulfield on Saturday. “He’s just a baby,” Waterhouse said. “He might be the best horse… Read More »
An appearance in Melbourne this spring remains a possibility for Malavio but the Group Two Villiers in Sydney is the main mission for the promising gelding. Malavio makes the second appearance of his preparation in Saturday’s Tooheys New Twin Willows Handicap (1350m) at Rosehill on the back of a pleasing… Read More »
The decision to stick to his original plan with Strike The Stars has left Anthony Cummings with just one runner at Saturday’s Caulfield Guineas meeting. Cummings nominated Strike The Stars for the Group One Toorak Handicap when there was talk More Joyous might not start after being given 60kg. Once… Read More »
