Roger James has successfully plundered some of Sydney’s biggest carnival races during his training career and while his spring plans for Queensland Derby winner Pinarello are modest, he hopes to up the ante in the future. Best known for his feats with top mare Silent Achiever, who captured the Group 1… Read More »
Former Singapore champion The Inferno has had mixed luck since relocating to Australia early in 2021. The Cliff Brown-trained galloper won the Group 2 McEwen Stakes (1000m) at Moonee Valley last year before flashing home late to just miss in the Group 1 Moir Stakes over the same course and distance. Things have… Read More »
Kissonallforcheeks will be out to improve on her already impressive eastern states record when she lines up at Moonee Valley. The mare, now in the hands of Nick Ryan at Flemington, is down to run in the Group 2 Stocks Stakes (1600m) on Friday night – weather depending. Ryan said the mare would take… Read More »
Tommy Berry says his inside knowledge of Golden Rose favourite In Secret is unlikely to give him an advantage, but the forecast for wet weather in Sydney might. Berry rode In Secret to her last-start win in the Run To The Rose but James Mcdonald will be aboard the Godolphin filly in Saturday’s… Read More »
The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Ferrari Man had given a glimpse of his potential before breaking through for his maiden win at Bendigo. After being winless at his first five starts in NSW, Ferrari Man was sent to the Melbourne stable of Waterhouse and Bott to score at Bendigo on… Read More »
Champion jockey James Mcdonald had no issue collecting five winners at Randwick on Saturday, but he felt almost guilty about his midweek victory aboard Roots at Canterbury. Sent around a $1.45 favourite, the mare lived up to her short quote, easily chasing down Starstruck Barbie despite that horse skipping to a handy lead… Read More »
Group 1 placegetter Best Of Bordeaux has been scratched from the Golden Rose with trainer Kacy Fogden opting not to stretch the colt out in journey. The Golden Slipper runner-up will instead tackle the Listed Heritage Stakes (1100m) on Saturday’s program, allowing regular rider James Mcdonald to stick with him. McDonald had opted… Read More »
Top Toowoomba trainer Lindsay Hatch has Wham targeting the Weetwood and Sayl due to take his place in the Toowoomba Cup with the stable looking to have its say in the two traditional main feature races of the year at the Clifford Park venue when Toowoomba hosts the Queensland Saturday… Read More »
Trainers Tony and Calvin McEvoy have worked hard on trying to contain the exuberance of their talented filly English Riviera has shown on the track. The Group 3 Scarborough Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley on Friday night is the next stop for English Riviera after two solid performances to start her three-year-old year. Tony McEvoy… Read More »
Mark Newnham has tinkered with Expat’s training program this campaign and while it might have been costly first-up, he hopes to reap the rewards in the Racing & Sports Golden Pendant. The speedy mare has historically raced well fresh but been flatter in her second-up runs so with Saturday’s Golden Pendant… Read More »
For the second year running the Group 1 Underwood Stakes has brought together a small but select band of gallopers. Zaaki, who won the 1800m weight-for-age contest at Sandown last year against four opponents, will be out to add a second win in the Group 1 contest on Sunday in what… Read More »
Victorian raider Daumier can etch his name in the record books if he becomes the first Blue Diamond Stakes winner to capture the Group 1 Golden Rose. Incredibly, the only winner of Melbourne’s premier juvenile race to have contested the Golden Rose was the three-year-old’s Anthony and Sam Freedman-trained stablemate Artorius,… Read More »
Godolphin galloper Paulele has the potential to be Group 1 winner with his trainer James Cummings hoping the sprinter can climb to the top this campaign. Paulele heads to Moonee Valley on Friday night to run in Group 1 Moir Stakes (1000m) and break a run of excruciating minor placings at the highest level. Last campaign Paulele finished third in the T… Read More »
Out now are the latest Longines World Best Racehorse Rankings with Aussies Nature Strip and James McDonald topping their listings, and US star Flightline the new World Champion. In scoring a run-away 19ÂĽ length victory in the TVG Pacific Classic Stakes to defeat the Dubai World Cup winner Country Grammer… Read More »
Eight races will be run and won at Happy Valley on Wednesday night, with solid depth across the program. Race One: 8 Sunny Delight Race Two: 6 Jumbo Fortune Race Three: 4 See U Again Race Four: 11 Smart Cousin Race Five: 12 Raging Blaze Race Six: 2 My Ecstatic… Read More »
The first shipment of international horses for the Melbourne Spring Carnival are due to arrive on Tuesday night. El Bodegon and My Oberon are joining the Chris Waller and Annabel Neasham stables respectively to prepare for the Cox Plate at Moonee Valley on October 22 while Rodrigo Diaz, trained by David Simcock, is set to run… Read More »
The Group 2 McEwen Stakes winner Rothfire is good to go for the Group 1 Moir Stakes at Moonee Valley on Friday night. “The horse has gone super,” confirmed trainer Robert Heathcote. “I had planned to take him to The Valley on Monday, but it was a very heavy track… Read More »
Godolphin trainer James Cummings is not going to get too far ahead of himself with Cox Plate favourite Anamoe who is over his soundness scare. Anamoe was graded three-out-of-five lame following his victory in the Group 1 George Main Stakes (1600m) at Randwick on Saturday but has been given the all-clear to press-on with his campaign… Read More »
Far Too Easy’s performance at the Gold Coast on Saturday ticked three huge boxes. Firstly, he gave his connections a big thumbs-up by showing he was well and truly over his recent health hiccups. Secondly, it announced in no uncertain terms he was perfectly on track for his date with… Read More »
Mornington trainer Rob Blacker says his stayer Tigertiger will be ready to run on Melbourne Cup Day. Options are the Group 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington on November 1 or the other stayers’ race, The Macca’s Run, a Benchmark 96 race over 2800m. Tigertiger starts his Cup campaign this weekend with Blacker entering the seven-year-old for the Benalla Cup… Read More »
