Nick Ryan has a large portion of his stable entered for Saturday’s rich VOBIS Gold Raceday at Caulfield, but it will have a different feel no matter how many run. For the first time in five years, Mahamedeis will not be in action at the meeting that is now headlined… Read More »
Crosswinds will be looking to make it three wins from three starts as he chases a big payday at Caulfield this Saturday with victory in the $1 million VOBIS Showdown. Run over 1200m for two-year-olds, the Showdown field will be headlined by the exciting Anthony & Sam Freedman trained colt… Read More »
Thanks to Thoroughbred Breeders Australia, thoroughbred breeders now have access to concessional government loans with borrowers only paying interest for the first five years. Available via the Regional Investment Corporation, RIC, there are five different loans all of which are available via this federally backed body that provides finance to… Read More »
After Arran Bay finished second in Benchmark 64 event at Sandown on Monday, Phillip Stokes was lamenting an Easter Holiday weekend where his stable to that point had gone without a winner. A string of placings left him frustrated that things could have turned out a whole lot better. But… Read More »
A Sydney-style Easter Monday forecast for Melbourne could thwart Hawkes Racing’s plan to take out the $50,000 Tile Importer Plate (1200m) at Sandown on Monday with Shohei. The father-and-sons training team of John, Wayne and Michael Hawkes sent the daughter of Mikki Isle south to avoid wet tracks after not being… Read More »
Wet tracks cruelled Sydney autumn carnival aspirations for high-class filly Jamaea but trainers Luke and Robert Price are hoping to salvage something from her preparation. The dual Group 2 winner indicated she was in for an exciting campaign when she resumed with a fast-finishing third behind Fangirl and Espiona in the Light Fingers Stakes… Read More »
A triple crown attempt just missed, a grand campaigner continued his love affair with Randwick while Ayrton made a statement in his return at Caulfield. All that and more in this weeks edition of ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’. KEY NEWS: She’s Extreme Denies Fireburn Triple Crown Fireburn… Read More »
It was spectacular to watch, but Nash Rawiller’s bold ride on Kementari in the Hall Mark Stakes has earned him the wrath of Racing NSW stewards. It is the second time in as many weeks that Rawiller had produced a thrilling display, only to find himself on the wrong end of… Read More »
Mick Price will approach Ayrton’s impending Brisbane Winter Carnival will more enthusiasm than he might have heading into Saturday’s Caulfield card after the gelding was able to surprise him in the Victoria Handicap. Ayrton was having his first start since the serious spider bite ailment that prematurely ended his spring campaign… Read More »
Tofane narrowly missed out of a fairytale farewell in Sydney, but Mike Moroney was able to console himself with victory in the $200,000 Group 3 Easter Cup (2000m) at Caulfield. Just 20 minutes after Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale-bound Tofane was run down by Cascadian in the Group 1 All Aged… Read More »
Find out what the jockeys made of their mounts after the Group 1 $600,000 Schweppes All Aged Stakes (1400m) at Royal Randwick. James McDonald (Cascadian): “Barrier one was an absolute blessing, but in saying that he was in the barriers a long time and he’s always a mid to back… Read More »
Find out what the jockeys made of their mounts after the Group 1 $500,000 Moet & Chandon Champagne Stakes (1600m) at Royal Randwick. Tommy Berry (She’s Extreme): “If I didn’t have Fireburn in the race I was home. But I thought that the other day in the Sires and Fireburn… Read More »
Three years after they made history by becoming the first Australian father and son to train Group 1 winners on the same program, Anthony and James Cummings have done it again. The pair first achieved the feat in Queensland in 2019 when James Cummings, head trainer for Godolphin, won the Stradbroke… Read More »
For the second time is as many weeks, Nash Rawiller has pulled off an audacious winning ride, this time aboard Godolphin warhorse Kementari. Where Rawiller hooked Think It Over towards the outside fence to win the Queen Elizabeth Stakes seven days ago, he scraped paint along the inside rail to squeeze… Read More »
Espiona hasn’t reached the heights expected of her this autumn, but trainer Chris Waller is adamant she is a Group 1 horse in the making. The $2.25 favourite rounded out her campaign with a consolation win in Saturday’s James H B Carr Stakes (1400m) at Randwick, thumping her rivals by 4-1/2 lengths… Read More »
Mamounia created a slice of history at Caulfield on Saturday and more could beckon with Godolphin to now work out where to next for the promising staying filly. The daughter of Medaglia d’Oro became the first filly to land a spot on the Elvis Thurgood Galilee Series Final honour roll in… Read More »
Trainer Anthony Cummings and jockeyTommy Berry have combined to mastermind a Champagne Stakes upset with She’s Extreme, the filly denying Fireburn a clean-sweep of the two-year-old triple crown. Fireburn had had the measure of She’s Extreme the three times they had met over shorter distances but Cummings said he never lost faith… Read More »
Former New Zealander Verona has all but forced her way onto Ciaron Maher’s Brisbane winter carnival team with a dashing victory in the Frank Packer Plate at Randwick. Having finished fifth in midweek grade at her Australian debut over a mile last month, the filly appreciated a distance rise to… Read More »
Craig Williams’ eventful week had a satisfying end when the star jockey made the most of a pick-up ride aboard the appropriately-named Liberty Steps to win the first race at Caulfield on Easter Saturday. The top rider played the role of humanitarian during the week when he travelled to Poland… Read More »
Top jockey Brenton Avdulla was fined $4000 when he signalled with 50m to go for She’s Extreme to ‘come on, catch up’ when his mount Fireburn thrashed her in the Gr 1 Sires’ two weeks ago. Many thought it an unfair fine as there was no malice involved, no chance… Read More »
