Can one say, the $1m James Squire Golden Rose Stakes is Sydney’s third 3YO Spring Classic, as it’s certainly a leader in the nation’s sire-making classics. Championed by former Sydney Turf Club President Mr Bill Picken, it was rebirthing the former Peter Pan Stakes that was run September at Rosehill… Read More »
Saturday’s meeting at Belmont features the $125,000 Listed Black Heart Bart Stakes (1200m), named in honour of one of WA racing’s durable and successful gallopers. After he was bought for a relatively modest sum of $20,000 by senior part-owner, Kim Renner at the 2012 Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale, the… Read More »
Sydney trainer Gary Portelli is content with the decision to send Kimochi to Melbourne for a tilt at a Group 1 sprint. The Manikato Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley on Friday night will be the mare’s second trip to Melbourne as she bids to land a first win at Group 1… Read More »
James Mcdonald will be looking to repeat his heroics of nine years ago when he partners Broadsiding in this Saturday’s Golden Rose at Rosehill. The star duo will start from the inside alley in the $1 million Group 1, which has drawn a field of 11. McDonald won the 2015 Golden Rose… Read More »
When Mitchell Freedman began planning the Spring Carnival assault for Attrition, he was not banking on the presence of two of Australia’s best weight-for-age performers in an early preparation Grand Final. Attrition runs in the Group 2 Feehan Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley on Friday night, looking to overturn his second… Read More »
Pride Of Jenni and Mr Brightside are on course for an exciting rematch in the Group 2 Feehan Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley on Friday night, provided the weather holds. Trainer Ciaron Maher confirmed that Pride Of Jenni will run if the track remains dry, noting she is in excellent… Read More »
Annabel Neasham is still learning about high profile mare Amelia’s Jewel but believes the five-year-old Group 1 winner is right on track for some lofty Spring goals. She will line up in Saturday’s Group 2 Golden Pendant (1400m) against her own sex at Rosehill having finished second to Royal Patronage in the Group… Read More »
Warwick Farm horseman Gregory Hickman is confident he has all the boxes ticked as he heads to Taree on Tuesday with two leading chances set to go around. he trainer has booked Aaron Bullock to ride both horses he has going around at Taree, with Snitzaroo ($4.40 on TAB) down to… Read More »
Sydney’s first official two-year-old trials of the season rarely pass without Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott making a statement and the country’s premier juvenile stable again did so on Monday. Tulloch Lodge won three of the eight 850-metre trials, including one with a colt who put up the equal fastest time… Read More »
Multiple Group 1 winner Sunlight shone brightly under the lights at Moonee Valley and Blake Shinn is hopeful her son Dawn Service can do the same on Friday night. Sunlight took out the Group 1 William Reid Stakes at The Valley under lights in 2019 and her colt by Justify, Dawn Service,… Read More »
Trainers Peter Moody & Katherine Coleman will leave a little in the tank of I Wish I Win as he heads to his final lead-up race before his Grand Final in Sydney. After an eye-catching first-up fifth in the Group 1 Moir Stakes (1000m) on September 7, I Wish I Win returns to Moonee… Read More »
Trainer Mick Nolan has been around racehorses the majority of his life. He has had a couple of stints as a trainer while also working as foreman, come assistant trainer, for some of the biggest stables in Australia. Nolan is a realist and doesn’t want to start dreaming big, despite Stylish… Read More »
Trainer Danny O’Brien has his eyes fixed on the Spring staying three-year-old filly races after Hurry Curry opened her city account at Flemington. Hurry Curry took out the Crown Oaks Preview (1800m) on Sunday to give O’Brien and the filly’s connections hope for a feature race win during the Melbourne Spring Carnival…. Read More »
Switzerland is unlikely to take his place in the Group 1 Golden Rose with trainer Chris Waller leaning towards re-routing his spring path towards the Roman Consul Stakes. The Group winner disappointed first-up when failing to beat a rival home in the Run To The Rose (1200m) won by Godolphin’s Traffic Warden and… Read More »
It was a case of “copy and paste” for star jockey James Mcdonald as he guided I Am Me to victory in the Group Two The Shorts, replicating the formula used successfully by rival hoop Nash Rawiller aboard the mare first-up. I Am Me stalked the speed before capturing the Concorde Stakes (1000m)… Read More »
Chris Waller’s decision to recruit Joao Moreira back to Australia for the Spring Carnival reaped immediate dividends when the star jockey partnered Buckaroo to Group 1 success at Caulfield on Saturday. The Brazilian maestro got the best out of the imported son of Fastnet Rock, who demolished his rivals in the $750,000… Read More »
Popular mare Fangirl has provided a spot of brightness in a difficult week for connections, capturing the $1 million 7 Stakes at Randwick just days after the death of stablemate and dual Derby winner Riff Rocket. The latter died on Tuesday due to complications following surgery for colic and his owners,… Read More »
Co-trainer Grant Williams is looking forward to getting consistent galloper Starry Heights out to a staying trip in Sunday’s Blue Spec Drilling-Boulder Cup (2116m) at Kalgoorlie. The five-year-old flooded home to finish a credible second in the Coolgardie Cup (1760m) earlier this month and stamp his credentials as a key… Read More »
Champion jockey Blake Shinn has been suspended for 10 meetings due to careless riding at Caulfield. The suspension, starting after his Sydney commitments on Saturday, will run from September 29 to October 7, ruling Shinn out of the Group 1 Turnbull Stakes Day at Flemington on October 5. Shinn was… Read More »
Positivity raced her way into next month’s Caulfield Cup with a win in Saturday’s MRC Foundation Cup at Caulfield. The Andrew Forsman-trained mare secured the coveted ballot exemption when she got her head down at the right time in one of the most thrilling finishes in the history of the 2000-metre… Read More »
