Lightly-raced three-year-old Tower Of Lonhro will be on trial for a start in the South Australian Derby when he goes for his fourth successive win at Caulfield on Saturday. The Lonhro gelding will be having his first metropolitan outing in the Eastern Bridge Plate (2000m). Tower Of Lonhro has raced… Read More »
Trainer Desleigh Forster is hoping winkers will help overcome some worrying concerns with Easy Running when the three-year-old makes his comeback in the Listed Mick Dittman Plate at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Forster picked up on a bad trait Easy Running was developing last campaign when he appeared to “float”… Read More »
While All eyes will be on Randwick this weekend, there still will be Group Racing all around the country Eagle Farm will host 5 listed races whilst Morphettville parks will have 3 group races. Eagle Farm’s meeting on Saturday is a good lead up to the Queensland Winter Carnival, group 1 gallopers… Read More »
Prince Obama will have his first run in more than seven months at Caulfield before an assault on next month’s Listed Wangoom Handicap at Warrnambool. Trainer Jason Clifford has waited patiently for the tracks to soften for the sensitive-footed five-year-old who last spring emerged a genuine stakes grade performer before… Read More »
Jarrod McLean will dodge Black And Bent with Cats Fun who will have his first start over the big fences at Warrnambool in the Brierly Steeplechase on May 1 and might back up in the Grand Annual two days later. The 2008 Group Two Perth Cup winner was a five-length… Read More »
Mick Price will rely on Testa My Patience in the Pink Ribbon Cup at Caulfield while stablemate Sheila’s Star will run in the City Of Adelaide Handicap at Morphettville. Price accepted with both horses in Saturday’s Listed Pink Ribbon Cup (1400m) but Sheila’s Star is first emergency in the field… Read More »
St Germaine will launch Kiwi trainer John Sargent’s early assault on the Brisbane winter carnival in the Listed Juanmo Stakes at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Sargent, who has been training for 30 years including five years in Singapore, already has eight horses based at Eagle Farm with further ammunition coming… Read More »
Grand producing mare Shantha’s Choice has died at Coolmore Stud aged 19. The dam of super sire Redoute’s Choice along with fellow Group One winners Platinum Scissors and Manhattan Rain, Shantha’s Choice was one of the foundation mares at Coolmore Australia. A daughter of Canny Lad, Shantha’s Choice raced just… Read More »
The Randwick stables of brothers Jim and Greg Lee take on a New Zealand flavour during carnival time. They have provided a second home to many of the Kiwi raiders over the years, none more famous than champion Sunline. The great mare, trained by Trevor McKee, campaigned in Sydney on… Read More »
David Payne will be striving to land his second Group One sprint crown in as many weeks, this time with Winter King in Saturday’s Galaxy at Randwick. The former South African trainer was to the fore at the same venue last weekend when Master Of Design ($31) landed an upset… Read More »
The Doncaster Mile changed complexion on Thursday with three early scratchings and ongoing uncertainty over whether More Joyous will run. Rekindled Interest, King’s Rose and Single have all been withdrawn, paving the way for emergencies Happy Trails and All Legal to start. Connections of More Joyous are expected to decide… Read More »
Bookmakers have installed Streama an overwhelming favourite for Saturday’s Group One Australian Oaks but trainer Guy Walter doesn’t share their bullishness. While confident he has the best filly in the race, Walter admits the $1.60 favourite has a couple of question marks hanging over her going into the staying Classic…. Read More »
Clarry Conners is in a quandary over what to do with high-class filly Satin Shoes. The three-year-old has been paid up for both the Group One Galaxy (1100m) at Randwick on Saturday and the Gosford Guineas (1200m) on the NSW central coast a day later. She is also in the… Read More »
A capacity field of 16 plus three emergencies has been declared for Sunday’s $250,000 Gosford Guineas. The final field for the Listed 1200m event for three-year-olds was declared on Thursday and attracted a classy line-up including eight stakeswinners. A number of the entries also accepted for races on Doncaster day… Read More »
The attention of Anthony Cummings will be on a new generation at Randwick on Saturday following the retirement of stable stalwart Zavite. The nine-year-old dual Group One winner ran his last race on Saturday when finishing at the tail of the field in the Chairman’s Handicap. Cummings, whose only runners… Read More »
Michelle Payne is hoping to add her name to the Doncaster Mile honour roll on Saturday, 20 years after her brother Patrick won the famous race as an apprentice. “I was only about six but I remember it was such an exciting thing,” Payne said of her brother’s 1992 Doncaster… Read More »
Flemington trainer Nigel Blackiston is committed to establishing former New Zealander Model To Nite as a stakes performer this campaign. Blackiston is aiming the five-year-old mare at an Adelaide feature race double with next week’s Group Two Queen Of The South Stakes (1600m) at Morphettville the first leg followed by… Read More »
Trackwork rider Steve O’Halloran has worked with many top-class horses prepared by Gai Waterhouse but Doncaster favourite More Joyous sits at the top of the tree. “She’s on top, definitely,” O’Halloran said. “She’s probably the best out of the lot of them to me.” O’Halloran, who has worked for Waterhouse… Read More »
Jockey Noel Callow has a suspected fractured leg after six-year-old debutant L’Esprit pinned him in the starting gates at Werribee. Trained by Andrew Homann, L’Esprit was engaged in Thursday’s Wyndham Weekly Maiden Plate (1000m) but was scratched at the barrier as Callow writhed in pain from his injury. “He has… Read More »
Trainer Tony Gollan hopes his Toowoomba bulldog Listen Son can decide his own Brisbane winter carnival fate in the Listed Hinkler Quality Handicap at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Gollan’s main focus will be in Sydney where he’s hoping to saddle his first Group One winner with Temple Of Boom in… Read More »
