Again, ‘in one’s hour of need’ it’s the ATC Foundation with a $50,000 donation to industry participants and race clubs affected by floods in northern NSW. The Australian Turf Club Foundation has added $50,000 in funding for racing industry affected by the ongoing flood emergency in NSW as part new… Read More »
Last years Golden Slipper winner Stay Inside has been retired after a relatively disappointing spring campaign. Newgate Farm’s Henry Field confirmed that the Richard and Michael Freedman-trained colt had run his last race after the boom colt failed to fire in the Spring running fifth in the Domenico Stakes and… Read More »
Hitotsu headlines a trio of three-year-olds who have been granted wildcard entry into this year’s $5 million All-Star Mile. Racing Victoria on Monday night announced that co-trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace had accepted the invitation to utilise one of the three wildcards with the colt who won Saturday’s Group 1 Australian… Read More »
A brother to Mo’Unga became the first New Zealand yearling to sell for seven figures on Monday’s opening day at this year’s Karaka Yearling Sale. The Waikato Stud-prepared colt, who is by Savabeel from the O’Reilly mare Chandelier, sold for exactly NZ $1 million when he went through as Lot 161…. Read More »
Beaten Australian Guineas favourite Profondo will have a new jockey when he runs in the Group 1 Rosehill Guineas (2000m) on March 19. The $1.9 million colt’s trainer Richard Litt confirmed via a statement released on social media on Monday afternoon than Hall of Fame jockey Hugh Bowman would replace Robbie Dolan . Dolan… Read More »
Saturday’s Coolmore Classic (1500m) headlines seven group contests to welcome in the opening weekend of the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival. In what has been an rousing lead-up to the Autumn Carnival, an exciting field for Saturday’s sole Group 1 feature has been nominated to kick off proceedings, for what is… Read More »
There were plenty of naysayers when Danny Williams accepted with Shelby Sixtysix in the Group 2 Challenge Stakes last weekend, but the Goulburn-based conditioner has had the last laugh. In a field decimated by scratchings the five-year-old gelding surprised all comers by beating home champion sprinter Nature Strip and putting a scare into… Read More »
Galaxy Witness has emerged as an early contender for next season’s Four-Year-Old Classic Series after brilliant victory for Caspar Fownes and Joao Moreira as Leading Fortune upstaged a cluster of this month’s BMW Hong Kong Derby (2000m) hopefuls to continue the championship-leading seasons of Zac Purton and John Size at… Read More »
Spanish Mission no longer sits atop the market for Saturday’s Australian Cup, but Peter Moody could not be happier with the import less than a week out from the $1.5 million Group 1. Saturday’s 2000-metre event will be the second start in the Melbourne Cup placegetter’s first full preparation for the Pakenham… Read More »
Michael Dee will aim to put the disappointment of Saturday’s Australian Guineas behind him and refocus on another Flemington Group 1, this Saturday’s $1.5 million Newmarket Handicap (1200m). The New Zealander will team with star Kiwi mare Levante in Australia’s most famous sprint race. Dee will partner the five-year-old for the first… Read More »
Converge has a start in the All-Star Mile if connections want it with Racing Victoria announcing on Sunday that the dual Group 1 winner was its preferred replacement runner for the injured Elephant. Co-trainers Emma-Lee and David Browne revealed on Sunday that Elephant was suffering from a bone chip injury and would… Read More »
Melbourne racing fans may have seen the last of champion mare Verry Elleegant with Chris Waller confirming that the six-year-old would by-pass the All-Star Mile. The reigning Melbourne Cup heroine received more votes than other runner in the $5 million event, to be run at Flemington on March 19, but Waller said… Read More »
Richard Litt has not given up on Profondo’s autumn campaign despite the Deep Impact colt’s inglorious display in Saturday’s Australian Guineas at Flemington. The Warwick Farm trainer is keen to put the $1.9 million Gold Coast Magic Millions yearling’s failure as $4.60 favourite in the 1600-metre Group 1 behind him and… Read More »
John Thompson is hoping Le Lude’s overdue win in the Aspiration Quality is a portent of things to come, not only for the mare, but for the stable. The top trainer has been through a challenging period with his two best horses, Group 1 winner Dreamforce and multiple stakeswinner Sweet Deal, both… Read More »
A star colt returned in brilliant manner, a minor upset in the Randwick Guineas while a couple of Autumn Carnival features and their picture became somewhat clearer. All that and more in this weeks edition of ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’. KEY NEWS: Hitotsu Outstanding In Australian Guineas… Read More »
New Zealand-bred mare Yonce will now attempt to add black type to her record after extending her unbeaten sequence with victory at Flemington. Yonce is now unbeaten in five starts for the Ciaron Maher and David Eustace stable following her win in The Schweppes Plate (1600m) on Saturday. Another of the Maher and Eustace-trained mares Marabi… Read More »
Bjorn Baker has capped an outstanding day at the office by taking out the final race in Sydney, pledging to donate his percentage of Belluci’s Babe prizemoney to the flood appeal. The popular trainer won feature races in two states on Saturday, capturing the Inglis Sprint and Bob Hoysted Handicap at… Read More »
Three decades after landing her first win as a trainer, Gai Waterhouse has celebrated another breakthrough victory, this time in the Randwick Guineas. Converge has given the trailblazing Waterhouse her first success in the three-year-old feature since it changed from the Canterbury to Randwick Guineas in 2006 and he has done… Read More »
Ciaron Maher and David Eustace have continued to turn training convention on its head with Hitotsu claiming the Australian Guineas first-up. During the spring Maher and Eustace had no hestitation jumping Hitotsu from the 1600m of the Caulfield Guineas to claim the Group 1 Victoria Derby over 2500m. Many thought that unconventional while no horse had returned… Read More »
A decision to change course and run Forbidden Love on a seven-day back-up in the Canterbury Stakes has yielded the ultimate reward for her connections and added an ironic twist to a career-milestone for jockey Hugh Bowman. Bowman landed a century of elite race wins when he captured The Metropolitan on… Read More »
