A sister to Sunlight on Wednesday readjusted the record for the highest-priced yearling sold at Magic Millions after changing hands for $2.6 million on the Gold Coast. The filly by Zoustar out of Solar Charged smashed the previously record of $2.2 million, which has stood since 2008, when bought by… Read More »
Turk Warrior scored his 10th career win at just his 16th start when winning the $109,000 Ladbrokes Carpet Charge (1009m) at Devonport on Wednesday. Trained locally at Wesley Vale by Glenn Stevenson, regular hoop Ismail Toker took the four-year-old to the front in the straight and held off the challenge… Read More »
Swoop Dog completed the Longford Cup-Devonport Cup double in a deceptive finish that had jockeys and connections guessing until the number was semaphored. Trained at Longford by John Blacker, Swoop Dog surged to the lead in the straight for Sigrid Carr in front of a vocal crowd but had to… Read More »
While Gai Waterhouse has won four Magic Millions 2yo Classic’s, the most of any trainer, she and co-trainer Adrian Bott, who have been in partnership since 2016, are yet to taste success in the race. This year however, they bring three genuine chances, all with differing form lines, although Bott… Read More »
Sunsource, a colt by Zoustar who fetched $370,000 at last year’s yearling sales has already tasted some form of Magic Millions success, but trainers Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young are hoping other factors can spark enough improvement to be competitive in Saturday’s Magic Millions 2yo Classic. An exciting winner at… Read More »
A son of Golden Slipper winner Mossfun wears the yellow jersey as the highest-priced lot after Day 1 of this year’s Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale. The colt by I Am Invincible sold for $400,000 more than any other yearling on the first of five days of selling when… Read More »
Ben and Jd Hayes have had just one starter at the Gold Coast in their short careers as head of Lindsay Park Racing, Zayydani finishing sixth in last year’s Group 2 Hollindale Stakes (1800m) at 60-1. That number will triple come Saturday and the brothers would be quietly confident of… Read More »
The barrier draw for the Magic Millions 2yo Classic was held on Tuesday morning on the Gold Coast with mixed luck for those prominent in betting. Infatuation, a filly by I Am Invincible who fetched $400,000 in the 2022 yearling sale, drew barrier 8 of 21, which will see her… Read More »
Tony & Maddysen Sears have had a total of 23 starters in listed races for zero wins, but newly crowned stable star Yellow Brick is attempting to change that in Saturday’s Magic Millions 3yo Guineas (1425m) worth $2 million. A restricted listed race by nature, the quality, stature, and prize… Read More »
Nine years ago, on January 12, 2014, trainer Bjorn Baker won the Magic Millions Two-Year-Old Classic with Unencumbered. Just three months later, Nathan Berry, who had ridden Unencumbered to that landmark victory for the Baker stable, tragically passed away after contracting an illness while riding in Singapore … and a… Read More »
Trainer Chris Munce will saddle up Miss Coota for the $2 million Magic Millions Two-Year-Old Classic at the Gold Coast on Saturday … a race he won no less than three times as a jockey, saluting aboard Sunblazer (1989), Excellerator (2001) and Dance Hero (2004). On top of that, Munce… Read More »
Nine races will be run and won at Happy Valley on Wednesday night, with good depth across the program. Race One: 1 Exuberant Race Two: 4 Murray’s Partners Race Three: 2 Hero Star Race Four: 1 Whizz Kid Race Five: 10 Happy Soul Race Six: 3 Lucky Gold Race Seven:… Read More »
Jye McNeil will make a welcome return to the Australian racing scene at Sandown on Wednesday. McNeil, who won the 2020 Melbourne Cup aboard Twilight Payment, last rode locally on October 29 at Flemington before moving to Hong Kong to take up a six-week riding contract which ran from November… Read More »
From Icebath to Fire Lane … those are the dots that trainer Brad Widdup will be hoping to connect as he lines up another possible success story in his training career. The six-year-old mare Icebath has been an ultra-consistent performer at the highest level under Widdup’s care. She landed a… Read More »
It is not often that trainer Chris Waller only just manages to scrape into a feature race field with one runner, but that is exactly what happened when the field for the $2 million Magic Millions Two-Year-Old Classic was finalised with the Waller trained Chrysaor making the sixteen-strong field after… Read More »
For the last two weeks trainer Annabel Neasham has had two runners hovering close to the cut-off line in the Order Of Entry for the $2 million Magic Millions Classic with the threat of not making the final field very much in play. Ultimately, both Excel D’Or and Empress of… Read More »
A quarter of the sixteen strong field of runners for the $2 million Magic Millions Two-Year-Old Classic will go into the big race defending their unbeaten records. Sovereign Fund won the Magic Millions Wyong Two-Year-Old Classic on debut on December 14 and the Peter and Paul Snowden trained son of… Read More »
Two horses have escaped from their boxes/tie up at Surfers Paradise beach and made their way onto the nearby roads, running through the streets. The two horses were being held on the beach as part of the Magic Millions barrier draw which sees a beach race. More to come… Quit… Read More »
The lead-ups have been run and won, meaning every horse has had its chance to unseat Empire Of Japan at the head of Magic Millions 2YO Classic betting, but the son of Snitzel remains favourite heading into the week of the $2.5 million event. Co-trainers Peter and Paul Snowden are supremely confident… Read More »
Magic Millions has unveiled a blueprint that will see significant prizemoney increases and new races added to a series that will take in night racing on the Gold Coast from next year. Less than a week out from this year’s $10 million raceday, Magic Millions revealed its two flagship events… Read More »
