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): âBarrier one was an absolute blessing, but in saying that he was in the barriers a long time and heâs 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 (Sheâs Extreme): âIf I didnât 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 Sheâs Extreme to âcome on, catch upâ when his mount Fireburn thrashed her in the Gr 1 Siresâ two weeks ago. Many thought it an unfair fine as there was no malice involved, no chance… Read More »
Jockey Blaike Mcdougall said that a win at the highest level beckons after the Lindsey Smith-trained In The Boat scored impressively in the inaugural running on $500,000 The Country Discovery (1100m) at Sale racecourse. In this feature event on the first thoroughbred meeting ever held in Victoria on Good Friday, In The… Read More »
Fireburn has stamped herself as the season’s dominant two-year-old, capping her rise with breathtaking wins in the Golden Slipper (1200m) and Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) and she is an odds-on favourite to add the Champagne Stakes (1600m) to her already bulging resume. After finishing runner-up to the Gary Portelli-trained filly in the… Read More »
A return to weight-for-age conditions and the promise of a solid tempo could prove an ideal formula for Cascadian to return to the Group 1 winner’s stall at Randwick. Last year’s Doncaster Mile winner finished ninth in his attempt to defend his title in the feature handicap last start, settling… Read More »
This Sunday (17 April), Nakayama Racecourse hosts the Satsuki Sho (2000m), JRA’s fourth turf Group 1 of 2022 and second Classic race. Following on the heels of the all-female G1 Oka Sho (1600m), the Satsuki Sho is the first race in Japan’s Triple Crown. It will be an all-male field… Read More »
The Hong Kong Jockey Club is pleased to announce that the cross-border horse movement (CBHM) between the Mainland and Hong Kong resumed on Thursday morning (14 April). Horses who are based in Conghua Racecourse (CRC) and entered for next Wednesday’s Happy Valley race meeting (20 April) will arrive at Sha… Read More »
Matthew Smith is hoping the decision to take a patient approach with promising filly Festival Dancer can help her deliver a Group 1 win this season. The three-year-old resumes in the James H B Carr Stakes (1400m) at Randwick on Saturday as a steppingstone towards a winter campaign in Brisbane where… Read More »
Top trainer Trevor Andrews hopes his decision to sidestep Perth’s premier two-year-old race with All The King’s Men a fortnight back can pay off at Ascot on Saturday. After he bypassed a meeting with boom filly Amelia’s Jewel in the G2 Karrakatta Plate (1200m), All The King’s Men lines up in the… Read More »
The unprecedented run of wet weather has played havoc with Count De Rupee’s autumn campaign, but co-trainer Luke Price is optimistic the horse is ready to rebound in the Hall Mark Stakes at Randwick. The four-year-old finished out of the placings in the Newmarket Handicap at Flemington and again in the… Read More »
