The Team Freedman trained Realm Of Flowers has run her final race, with Team Freedman following her fifth placing in last year’s Melbourne Cup. The daughter of So You Think had won five races and earned a total of $846,110 in prizemoney, and was G1-placed in last year’s Metropolitan. The… Read More »
Ballarat trainer Shay Keating landed her first metropolitan success when Greenhill Prince scored at Sandown. A former jockey who started her racing career apprenticed to her father late father Daryl Brown, Keating has held a trainer’s licence for the past nine year. Keating had her first runner at Swan Hill in 2014 and… Read More »
Promising mare Sanstoc has earned her way back into stakes company after franking her first-up win with another powerful performance at Warwick Farm. Trainer Mark Newnham confirmed the four-year-old would have her next run in the Group 3 Epona Stakes (1900m) at Rosehill on March 18 after producing a dynamic finish… Read More »
Two Japanese horses, Unicorn Lion and Ho O Amazon, are expected to enter quarantine next week before joining the record contingent of overseas raiders descending on the Sydney autumn carnival. It will be the first time since 2020 that Japan has been represented in The Championships, while the 18 horses who… Read More »
Leading trainer Chris Waller will have at least two runners in his bid for a second Randwick Guineas and while he has followed a traditional route with Osipenko, stablemate Manzoice has had a more unconventional preparation. The latter missed his scheduled return in the Hobartville Stakes (1400m), won by Osipenko, and will… Read More »
The Fortune Teller and Holymanz will line-up for Ciaron Maher and David Eustace chasing back-to-back Australian Guineas success. Maher has been taken with the improvement both horses have made from their spring campaigns and enter Saturday’s Group 1 race over 1600m at Flemington second and third-up respectively. The training duo know what is required to win the Group 1 contest having claimed the… Read More »
A familiarising gallop at Randwick has globetrotting sprinter Artorius on target to tackle an intriguing Canterbury Stakes field headlined by star New Zealander Imperatriz and three-year-old Golden Mile. The 2021 Blue Diamond Stakes winner, Artorius has not been victorious since claiming the major, however he has been twice Group 1… Read More »
Trainer Mike Moroney and the connections of imported galloper Alenquer have a nervous wait to see whether they make the All-Star Mile field. The Top 10 vote gathers were announced on Tuesday evening with Alenquer not among them and now connections are banking on gaining a wildcard to run in the… Read More »
Nine races will be run and won at Happy Valley on Wednesday night, with good depth across the program. Race One: 10 Smiling Face Race Two: 5 Sixth Generation Race Three: 9 A Americ Te Specso Race Four: 7 Management Folks Race Five: 1 Righteous Arian Race Six: 9 Fingers… Read More »
Alligator Blood has fallen just short of a new record in the public vote into the All-Star Mile. The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained galloper collected 18,301 votes to head the Top 10 into the All-Star Mile after voting closed on Sunday night. His vote count was just 200 shy of… Read More »
Owner Wally Daly has not ruled out top juvenile Brave Halo coming back to Perth and running in the Group 2 $500,000 Karrakatta Plate (1200m) at Ascot in April. Daly has left the door ajar on Brave Halo returning for WA’s richest two-year-old race, setting up a potential mouth-watering showdown with… Read More »
Mike Moroney hopes to have two runners in the Australian Guineas but fears Japanese Emperor may miss out on the Group 1 race at Flemington. Japanese Emperor and Elkington Road have been entered for the 1600m contest on Saturday. Elkington Road is safely in the field limit of 16 plus four emergencies sitting… Read More »
It’s a stable that is usually up and about when the major silverware is being dished out and this autumn is no exception for the training partnership of Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott. Fresh off the back of Alligator Blood’s dominant Group 1 Futurity Stakes win at Sandown last weekend,… Read More »
Just days after the anniversary of his watershed win, Daumier has been retired to stud. The son of Epaulette, who won last year’s Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m), will stand at Twin Hills Stud in New South Wales. The Anthony and Sam Freedman-trained colt won the Blue Diamond at just… Read More »
A rare visit to Perth is on the cards for Geraldton trainer Albert Bowtell as he aims to get Westozi into next month’s WA Derby (2400m) at Ascot. The staying classic for three-year-old’s is very much on the radar for Bowtell after Westozi continued his excellent progress at Geraldton last Thursday…. Read More »
A big day of mile racing at Flemington is highlighted by the 2023 Australian Guineas (1600m) where a last start winner against the older horses will start favourite. Jacquinot ($3.20 betr.com.au) gets to that mile for the first time in the Group 1 but given his two attempts at 1400m… Read More »
A slick piece of trackwork on Monday morning has JD Hayes confident Gentleman Roy is where he needs to be to lock away his All-Star Mile spot at Flemington this Saturday. The tenacious on-pacer, who was beaten on protest in the Group 1 C F Orr Stakes, will contest the $300,000… Read More »
Randwick will be again hosting two Group 1s this Saturday with a high quality day across nine individual black type races as we officially begin Autumn. The Randwick Guineas (1600m) for the 3yos starts many of their quests to the Derby or, if milers, toward a race like the Doncaster…. Read More »
Sterling Alexiou hopes the Bureau of Meteorology has erred on the conservative side when it comes to predicted rainfall for Sydney this week. The trainer would love for Sydney’s first Saturday meeting of autumn to be run in traditional autumn conditions with Williamsburg to tackle the $1 million Group 1 Randwick… Read More »
This season is marking an inevitable changing of the guard in Australia’s elite sprinting ranks, but Joe Pride says that doesn’t mean the likes of his top galloper Eduardo and arch-rival Nature Strip are washed up. Nature Strip is being freshened for an attempt at a record fourth T J Smith Stakes win after… Read More »
