Few people can boast having trained a winner for His Majesty The King, but Chris Waller can now tick that off his bucket last after the enigmatic Chalk Stream emerged triumphant in the Listed Australia Day Cup at Warwick Farm. Waller has achieved more than most in racing, highlighted by his association… Read More »
Clinton Mcdonald has his eyes firmly fixed on the Oakleigh Plate after Star Patrol made a winning return at Sandown. Star Patrol landed his first win at ‘stakes level’ when he took out the Listed WJ Adams Stakes (1000m) on Thursday. The Group 1 Oakleigh Plate (1100m) at Sandown on February 25… Read More »
De Sonic Boom will be set on a path to the Blue Diamond Stakes after her debut win at Sandown. The Anthony and Sam Freedman-trained filly took out the filly’s division of the Group 3 Blue Diamond Preview (1000m) on Thursday to give the stable hope of a third straight… Read More »
Jockey Jordan Childs knows what is required to win the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes and believes The Instructor has the credentials to give him a second win in Melbourne’s premier two-year-old race. Childs won the Blue Diamond in 2018 aboard Written By and said after The Instructor won the Listed Blue Diamond… Read More »
Rachel King has made the most of a late pick-up ride with victory aboard So Audacious at the Australia Day meeting at Warwick Farm, a fortuitous connection to the filly’s family providing her with some extra insight. The top jockey had ridden the three-year-old’s dam, two-time winner Audacious Choice, a mare trained… Read More »
Some potential kinks in the armour of the two Expressway Stakes favourites have convinced John O’Shea to test the black-type waters with improving sprinter Pizarro. The four-year-old has been scratched from a benchmark race at Rosehill on Saturday in preference for the harder assignment and O’Shea is happy to roll… Read More »
An outside draw has left trainer Michael Freedman in two minds about whether to start unraced filly Mumbai Muse in the Widden Stakes at Rosehill, or to wait seven days and take on the males at her home track of Randwick. The filly has shaped well in two trials, including… Read More »
A total of 81 horses have been nominated for the fifth edition of the All-Star Mile which will this year be run at Moonee Valley. Entries for the $5 million All Star Mile closed on Wednesday with late nominations, incurring a $2500 fee, can be made until Monday. Once late… Read More »
The countdown to the 2023 Golden Slipper begins in earnest at Rosehill with the return of nominal favourite King’s Gambit in the Group 3 Canonbury Stakes. The colt has sat atop Slipper markets since his scintillating win in the Debutant Stakes at Caulfield in October and makes his Sydney debut… Read More »
Michael Freedman is approaching Forbidden Love’s upcoming campaign with cautious optimism, hoping she replicates past seasons by saving her best performances for the autumn. With the exception of her three-year-old year, the mare’s form has tended to dip in the spring, including last preparation when she failed to place in five… Read More »
Let fast horses be fast. That is the realisation trainer Archie Alexander has come to with Starry Legend who will have his second start for the stable in the Listed WJ Adams Stakes (1000m) at Sandown on Thursday. Starry Legend was initially prepared by John Sadler, winning four of his… Read More »
A unique Bega Cup hat-trick is looming ominously for the powerful country training partnership of Barbara Joseph, and Paul & Matt Jones this Sunday. The Joseph/Jones combination won the 2021 $80,000 Bega Cheese Bega Cup (1600m) with roughie Mercurial Lad before claiming last year’s Cup with Room Number. The stable will… Read More »
The idea of taking Stafford’s Lad on an interstate trip looms as an appealing prospect for top Perth trainer, Dan Morton. A South Australian campaign is on the cards for Stafford’s Lad with the G2 Adelaide Cup (3200m) viewed as an ideal target. Dan Morton wanted to race Stafford’s Lad in last… Read More »
Renowned trainer of stayers John Sargent expects Outlandos to relish a seven-day back-up into the Listed Australia Day Cup following an eye-catching performance at the Magic Millions carnival. The gelding settled last from a wide draw and motored to the line to get within half a length of winner Sky Lab in the… Read More »
Quality filly Laced Up Heels will be joined by stablemates Wild Belle and Shaddow Fear in an upcoming Melbourne campaign. The $5 million All Star Mile at Moonee Valley on March 18 is the main target for Laced Up Heels , who created a big impression last year. In her maiden… Read More »
A Group 1 campaign for Jacquinot commences at Sandown when he lines up against three-year-olds in the Manfred Stakes. The Group 3 race over 1300m is the kick-off point for the Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr -trained colt who have earmarked the Group 1 CF Orr Stakes and Futurity Stakes,… Read More »
Caitlin Jones is hard at work preparing herself both mentally and physically for her upcoming defence of the Saudi Cup International Jockeys Challenge title which she won at the King Abdulaziz Racetrack in Riyadh last year. This year’s Saudi Cup International Jockeys Challenge will take place on Friday, February 24…. Read More »
Trainer Damien Batters has the Blue Diamond Prelude in his sights as he prepares to send his emerging two-year-old filly Party For Two to Melbourne for the big Caulfield contest on February 11. Batters, who doubles as stable foreman for the David Vandyke stable, has brought the daughter of Sidestep… Read More »
Two of the country’s current leading racehorses … Zaaki and Alligator Blood … will head towards a Grand Final clash in the $5 million All-Star Mile at Moonee Valley on March 18. While a secured entry into the final field follows one of three routes … prevailing in the popular… Read More »
Skirt The Law, the unbeaten two-year-old filly who slammed her rivals in no uncertain terms in the $2 million Magic Millions Classic at the Gold Coast last week … will take up the Golden Slipper challenge with the world’s richest two-year-old race now being confirmed as Skirt The Law’s next… Read More »
