Group 1 action returns this Sunday (23 January) to Sha Tin with a pair of top-level contests highlighted by the reappearance of Golden Sixty as well as a hot renewal of the Centenary Sprint Cup (1200m) which Alexis Badel is gunning for aboard Wellington. Victorious in the 2021 HK$18 million… Read More »
The Group 1 C F Orr Stakes at Caulfield is shaping as the return run for I’m Thunderstruck as the gelding chases a second rich “new race” on the Australian calendar. Having captured the $7.5 million Golden Eagle at Rosehill last October, trainers Mick Price and Michael Kent Jr have the $5 All-Star… Read More »
Nine races will be run and won at Happy Valley this Wednesday night, with good depth across the meeting. Race One: 6 Amazing Boy Race Two: 10 Viva Popcorn Race Three: 4 Charming Steed Race Four: 4 Amazing News Race Five: 11 Shadow Runner Race Six: 6 Beauty Joy Race… Read More »
He’s been in scintillating form this preparation, and the Jarrod Austin-trained Looks Like Elvis will look to keep rocking and rolling at Royal Randwick this Saturday in the $150,000 Listed Carrington Stakes. The All American gelding commenced this campaign with a close-up second in the Group 3 Bill Ritchie before… Read More »
Mark Minervini is assured his unbeaten three-year-old Quick Tempo is more than capable of adding to his picket fence on Saturday at Randwick. Newcastle trainer Mark Minervini will head to Randwick on Saturday with two exciting chances in unbeaten three-year-old Quick Tempo and two-year-old debutant Fire And Ice. Yet to taste defeat… Read More »
After four straight wins the financial rewards sit pretty, but the personal impact can’t be understated. The six-year-olds’ unbeaten record for Meryl Hayley is a key confidence lift and equally as importantly has also helped soothe her way back into racing after a low point last year. Hayley is back in… Read More »
Multiple Premiership winning trainer Tony Gollan likes to tell it as it is. If he is confident about the chances of one of his runners he says so. If he thinks there are obstacles one of his runners might have to overcome, he will tell you what he thinks they… Read More »
With vaccination set to become mandatory for jockeys in Western Australia, champion hoop William Pike is set to move to the eastern states to continue his career. To be eligible to ride in WA, jockeys must be double-dosed vaccinated from February 5, a stand Pike is against. Already this year, Pike was… Read More »
Trainer Nathan Dunn hopes to show his success with his small Cranbourne stable will in turn lead to him becoming better known than a successful pre-trainer. Dunn has built his business around pre-training horses for the likes of the Mick Price and Michael Kent Jr stable, but at the same time he has a small… Read More »
Champion jockey James Mcdonald did not waste any time getting back in the saddle after winning his first Magic Millions 2YO Classic aboard Coolangatta. Two days after collecting the big prize on the Gold Coast, McDonald was aboard champion sprinter Nature Strip in his first trial after a successful spring campaign at… Read More »
It was announced in WA today that Willie Pike, that state’s best jockey, will move to Sydney. He, like Novak Djokovic, remains an ardent non-vaccinated advocate, and as such, believes he will be allowed to ride in NSW as an unvaccinated athlete. Bringing that claim into question was a message… Read More »
Cranbourne-based trainer Julius Sandhu will be hoping to notch a city winner on consecutive Saturdays as Sharp Response is likely to line up in the Benchmark 70 Handicap over 1200 metres. After two-year-old Lofty Strike struck for the stable on debut at Flemington on Saturday at $14 and beating the well-fancied English… Read More »
They’ve had six winners (26%) from 23 runners since New Year’s Eve and the Rosehill training combination of Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou will be looking to continue that momentum with three gallopers nominated for this Saturday’s Carrington Stakes meeting at Royal Randwick. After a somewhat disappointing performance in the… Read More »
Simon Miller has a range of options to consider, but he’s almost certain to keep glamour mare Miss Conteki racing in Perth for the remainder of the year. Group 1 races on the eastern seaboard were put on the agenda after the improving five-year-old scored another scintillating win at Ascot… Read More »
Having been beaten a lip in the Magic Millions Cup, the Annabel Neasham-trained Holyfield spearheads the nominations, as black type racing returns to Sydney. Going down in a photo finish to Magic Millions Day specialist Eleven Eleven, Holyfield could return to Sydney, where he was a track and trip winner… Read More »
Triumphant after a Sha Tin quartet on Sunday (16 January), Joao Moreira will deliberate overnight before deciding which of the several leading contenders he will ride in the HK$12 million Hong Kong Classic Mile (1600m) on Sunday, 30 January. Boosting his lead in the jockeys’ championship over arch-rival Zac Purton… Read More »
A return to stakes company is on the cards for Decent Raine after making light work of her opposition in the Furphy Refreshing Ale Trophy (1400m) at Flemington on Saturday. The daughter of Dissident was narrowly beaten in the Listed Twilight Glow at Caulfield two starts ago, before a very… Read More »
Punters got it spot on in the feature at the Gold Coast, a straight track specialist continued his love affair with the course while it was a Hi 5 for Barend Vorster at Murray Bridge. All that and more in this weeks edition of ‘The Good, The Bad and The… Read More »
Peter and Paul Snowden have gone back-to-back in the Magic Millions three-year-old Guineas as King Of Sparta mowed down his rivals to win the rich $2million Magic Millions Guineas. After winning the 2021 renewal with Aim, they returned to the scene of the crime with the son of I Am… Read More »
The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained Coolangatta has fended off a fast-finishing Russian Conquest to win the $2 million Magic Millions 2YO Classic. It took a brave pre-corner move from jockey James McDonald, but the Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-prepared two-year-old filly Coolangatta ($1.95F) has proven too strong for her rivals… Read More »
