Darley Australia has confirmed its 2026 stallion roster, featuring 16 stallions standing across Kelvinside in New South Wales and Northwood Park in Victoria, with the group boasting a combined record of 43 Group 1 wins, 81 Group wins, 12 Champion titles and eight race or track records. Too Darn Hot… Read More »
Over the years, the Listed Anzac Day Stakes at Flemington has produced some more than handy performers. Winners of the 1400m race for two-year-olds in the past include Epimeles (2024), Tijuana (2022), Chaillot (2019), Vassilator (2017), Merchant Navy (2017), Long John (2013) and Confectioner (2003). The race comes at the… Read More »
There would not be a hardier filly in training than the Ciaron Maher prepared Salty Pearl. After an arduous spring campaign that saw her successful at Group 2 level, the consistent filly is after Group 1 honours in the Australasian Oaks (2000m) at Morphettville on Saturday. Saturday’s outing will be… Read More »
The Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman trained Alpha Sofie … a winner of four of her seven races … will be looking to bounce back in Saturday’s Group 2 Tobin Bronze Stakes at Morphettville after posting disappointing results in her last two starts. The chestnut filly won two out of… Read More »
With confirmation Lord Of Biscay will line up in the Tamworth Cup, Kris Lees is looking to a pair of talented three-year-olds to headline his Anzac Day team at Randwick. Provincial-Midway Championships Final winner Lord Of Biscay is an early favourite for Saturday’s First Australian Imperial Force Handicap (1500m), but… Read More »
Zac Purton latest assessment of Ka Ying Rising will hardly give any of the champion’s opponents any cause for comfort as the David Hayes trained runner looks to extend his magnificent, undefeated, record breaking run to twenty straight wins when he runs in the Group 1 Chairman’s Sprint Prize over… Read More »
Trainer Matt Cumani knows Deal Done Fast has the ability to be a Stakes winner, but first the Ballarat conditioner just wants to get a win on the board with the colt. Both may come at Flemington on Saturday in the Listed VRC St Leger (2800m), provided Deal Done Fast can improve… Read More »
Fresh from his maiden success in Hong Kong on Wednesday night, Ethan Brown has confirmed he will be on a fly-in, fly-out mission when he returns to Australia to take the ride on the Ciaron Maher trained Jimmysstar in the Group 1 Kingsford Smith Cup May 30 at Eagle Farm…. Read More »
The Anthony and Sam Freedman stable will have dual representation as it looks to win a feature sprint race in Adelaide together for the first time. Ameena and Point Barrow will line up for the father-and-son training team in the Group 1 Robert Sangster Stakes (1200m) at Morphettville on Saturday. The race has… Read More »
Annabel and Rob Archibald’s five-strong squad for the main race at Randwick on Anzac Day could be reduced to three with the training partners set to split their runners between Sydney and Tamworth. Both Hellsing and Formal Display are acceptors for the First Australian Imperial Force Handicap (1500m) on Saturday,… Read More »
Sheza Alibi’s owner Fred Noffke has turned down an offer exceeding $6 million for the emerging star, as confidence grows around her future potential. The Queensland grazier revealed he declined the approach, believing the multiple Group 1-winning filly could go on to rival the prizemoney achievements of champion mare Winx…. Read More »
The Tony Gollan trained Antino will attract a lot of attention at Eagle Farm on Saturday … and not just because of his good looks. There is no question Antino is a striking looking son of Redwood with a glittering overall form-line to match … thirteen wins from thirty-two starts,… Read More »
Few two-year-olds in recent memory have had a juvenile season as busy as Away Game did six years ago, so it’s not surprising the now-broodmare’s daughter, Lady Catalina, has had a much more sedate start to her career. Away Game raced eight times at two for four wins, including the… Read More »
Ethan Brown wasn’t hanging about. In fact, it took Brown just three rides to secure his first win at his first meeting in Hong Kong when he partnered Shooting To Top to victory for trainer Cody Mo in a Class 4 Handicap over 1650m. Brown, who showed he was a… Read More »
Todd Pollard may be in the early days of running a stable in his own name but after just a few months in, the numbers are already growing. Scrumptious is a recent acquisition to the team of the former assistant trainer to Annabel and one who could be handy going… Read More »
Taree trainer Glen Milligan has been suspended for two months, with a further two months held over, following a Racing NSW stewards’ inquiry into a series of social media posts. The inquiry found that Milligan had published Facebook posts across several days containing what stewards described as “improper comments that… Read More »
There would be few horses in training able to boast a pair of Golden Slipper winners as parents, so Tulloch Lodge trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott were understandably rapt to get a win on the board with beautifully bred filly Loera. By 2016 Slipper winner Capitalist out of 2013… Read More »
Distance, distance and more distance is what trainer Liam Howley has been searching for with three-year-old Valiant Sun. The longest race restricted to three-year-olds in Victoria will be run on Saturday, the Listed VRC St Leger (2800m) at Flemington, with Valiant Sun taking up the challenge. Valiant Sun will line… Read More »
Tom Charlton is looking for a positive return from Queensland Derby winner Maison Louis at Randwick as connections consider another trip north this winter. Twelve months ago, the son of Super Seth progressed from winning a Goulburn maiden at his second start to taking out the Group 1 Derby at… Read More »
Ash Morgan has given Private Harry his tick of approval as he prepares to reunite with the Group One winner in the Victory Stakes at Eagle Farm next month. Morgan put the four-year-old through his paces in an exhibition gallop at Canterbury on Wednesday, Private Harry covering the 1000m in… Read More »
