The Hong Kong jockeys’ championship hangs in the balance after Zac Purton drew within one win of Joao Moreira with seven meetings left in the season as Derek Leung took riding honours with a double at Happy Valley on Wednesday night (22 June). On an eventful night, Moreira was stood… Read More »
The Robbie Griffiths and Mathew de Kock stable held out hope that Daily Bugle would win a high-level stakes race and eventually make a stallion proposition. But as Daily Bugle’s three-year-old career winds down, the realisation that is unlikely to be achieved has sunk in for Griffiths who admits it… Read More »
Named after a New Zealand love song, Po Kare Kare makes a highly-anticipated progression to Saturday grade at Randwick. It was love at first sight when Bryce Heys spotted Po Kare Kare at a yearling sale in New Zealand, but the honeymoon period didn’t last long. Heys had ventured to… Read More »
Trainer Gavin Bedggood wants to try No Effort over a staying trip and part of his plan to get the mare to a longer journey is a return to Caulfield. No Effort will attempt to emulate her 2000m victory at Caulfield on May 28 when she runs over the same course and… Read More »
From a limited number of rides, Brock Ryan has managed to make his mark on the Brisbane winter carnival, and he hopes to parlay that form into the final Group 1 meeting of the season. Having captured the Victory Stakes aboard Count De Rupee in April, Ryan went to Ipswich for three… Read More »
The Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr stable is confident Copperfield can progress to better company after his success at Cranbourne wearing blinkers for the first time. Copperfield took out the O’Brien Real Estate Handicap (1400m) on Wednesday, a benchmark 64 grade race, but what impressed stable spokesman Ben Elam was the way he… Read More »
One of the cheaper buys at the 2021 Australian Easter Yearling Sale, Lady Harlem is quickly proving to be an astute purchase for her connections. The daughter of Sebring sold for $125,000 at the topflight auction and after notching a stakes placing on debut at Moonee Valley last year, she… Read More »
The long road to the Melbourne Cup could begin for Carif on Saturday when he kicks off his latest campaign in the Listed Civic Stakes at Randwick. Trainers Peter and Paul Snowden are keen to give the six-year-old another shot at Australia’s most famous race after he had a rough-house… Read More »
The trip home from Cranbourne to Warrnambool will be a little easier for trainer Peter Chow following the win of Idon’Tgetit. Chow made the three-and-a-half-hour journey from the seaside town to claim the Gendore Handicap (1600m) on Wednesday. Idon’tgetit had been successful on a heavy track at Echuca at his previous start and Chow was hoping for… Read More »
The Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young stable is set to unveil their latest import when He’s Our Bonneval steps out at Caulfield. Racing as Bonneval in the UK, the five-year-old son of Siyouni has been forced to undergo a name change following his arrival in Australia. A New Zealand mare trained by Murray Baker raced as Bonneval last decade and collected… Read More »
The emergence of Rebel Dane as a serious stallion has prompted trainer Gary Portelli to reignite the debate over whether Australia’s best colts are retired to stud too soon. In a career spanning 40 starts, Rebel Dane consistently competed at the top level, winning two Group 1 races before he eventually became… Read More »
Co-trainer Mick Price has always felt Annavisto had a good race in her and has set the mare to win a Group 1 in Brisbane first-up. The Tatt’s Tiara (1400m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday is the assignment Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr have been eyeing off since Annavisto ran second to Nimalee on a heavy… Read More »
Nine races will be run and won at Happy Valley this Wednesday night, with good depth across the program. Race One: 3 Go For Tea Race Two: 1 Ares Race Three: 8 Yellowfin Race Four: 1 Happy Sharing Race Five: 5 Blissful Star Race Six: 2 Above All Race Seven:… Read More »
Alexis Badel has been a hit ever since he switched his tack to Hong Kong and on Sunday afternoon (19 June) the Frenchman put himself in rare company by becoming the sixth rider in history to register eight or more Group race wins in a single racing season. Zac Purton… Read More »
Jye Mcneil would appear unbeatable in the Melbourne Jockeys’ Premiership with six weeks of the season left to run, but he is not going to rest on his laurels. Holding a 21-win lead over an ineligible Jamie Kah and 23 in front of Damien Oliver, McNeil looks certain to land his… Read More »
The barrier draw has not been kind for the Ciaron Maher and David Eustace stable as they chase success in the final Group 1 race of the season. Maher and Eustace have Snapdancer and Away Game engaged in the Tatt’s Tiara (1400m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday as they look to stretch their Group… Read More »
Artorius knew that he had taken a hard race with his placing at Royal Ascot but will press on to a second assignment in the UK. The Anthony and Sam Freedman-trained sprinter finished third in the Group 1 Platinum Jubilee Stakes (1200m) on Saturday after have a tight passage over… Read More »
The nominations are in for stakes events in two cities on Saturday with the Tattersall’s Tiara over 1400 metres the top of the racing events to come, and the last top line race for season in Australia. Group 1 Robert Sangster Stakes winner steps up from the victory over 1200… Read More »
One of the most promising up and coming trainers in Western Australia, Michael Grantham landed his third consecutive feature win on the weekend when Devoted took out a strong edition of the Belmont Guineas (1600m). Devoted kick-started Grantham’s hot streak when he won the Raconteur Stakes (1400m) at the beginning of the… Read More »
A kinder barrier is all Rob Heathcote is asking for as Startantes looks to build on her ‘enormous’ run in the Stradbroke Handicap to snatch the Group 1 Tattersall’s Tiara (1400m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Startantes drew barrier 12 in the 1400 metre Stradbroke and Heathcote is as effusive with his… Read More »
