Eleven races will be run and won at Singapore on Saturday, with good depth across the meeting. Race One: 4 The Shadow Race Two: 2 Big Green Hat Race Three: 2 Gold Reward Race Four: 7 Gold Cut Race Five: 2 Lim’s Shot Race Six: 1 Great Expectation Race Seven:… Read More »
David Harrison will saddle-up four two-year-olds in the same race at Ascot tomorrow when they take their place in the Magic Millions Plate (1000m). With the $250,000 Magic Millions WA 2YO Classic only four weeks away, the Serpentine-based trainer is starting to wheel out his younger brigade and has a… Read More »
Jim Byrne is looking forward to his ride on the unbeaten Exo Lady in the Aquis Gold Pearl at the Gold Coast on Saturday in the 1100m sprint for Two-Year-Old Fillies. âI did cringe a bit when I saw the barrier draw.â (The Desleigh Forster trained Exo Lady drew fourteen… Read More »
Co-trainers Amy and Ash Yargi have no hesitations in expressing their fondness for their four-year-old mare and last start Flemington winner Florescent Star who takes another step in her career at Caulfield tomorrow. “She’s just a little star for us,” Amy said. “She’s only a tiny little horse but she’s got a… Read More »
John Moloney could have sent well-performed filly Scorched Earth for bigger prizes in Magic Millions races on the Gold Coast but decided against it to keep her racing in Melbourne over more suitable distances. “The distances of the Gold Coast races weren’t right for her going out to 1300 and 1400 metres… Read More »
A summer surge in form could be on the doorstep for the Michael Moroney-trained Hang Man when the nine-year-old gelding lines up in the Marlene Rogers Handicap over 2000 metres at Caulfield on Saturday. The Benchmark 100 event â an unusual type of race on the Melbourne scene â presents the… Read More »
Training partners Tony and Calvin McEvoy could be spoilt for choice for lucrative two-year-old racing options after Xtravagant Star won on debut at Geelong. The 2021 edition of the Bet 365 Odd Protector Maiden (1118m) saw Artorius place on debut and then went on to win impressively at Sandown before taking… Read More »
It was at the same time last year, less one day, when the Anthony and Same Freedman stable set Artorius on a debut task at Geelong where the smart colt finished second in a two-year-old maiden. The next two starts delivered an impressive win at Sandown and then victory in the… Read More »
Danny O’Brien is hoping that the weather and natural improvement can combine positively for consistent performer Starelle and promising two-year-old Stupendo. Stupendo won on debut at Flemington on 12 December but faces a different task in the $125,000 Aussie Nugget (1100m) in a final lead-up to the Magic Millions 2yo Classic (1200m)… Read More »
A ‘deadly’ combination of a filly in good form and a jockey riding well is the recipe to success as far as co-trainer JD Hayes is concerned as Luna Cat steps at Caulfield. In five starts, Luna Cat has missed the placings only once. Among those runs were wins at Bendigo when… Read More »
Jockey Matthew Cartwright resumes his race day association with family favourite Curran but this time at over a distance less familiar to the four-year-old. A noted sprinter, Curran returns to benchmark company after recent unplaced efforts listed level. His latest outing delivered a seventh placing in the Listed Christmas Stakes over 1100… Read More »
Placed in the Reisling Stakes as a two-year-old, Godolphin have long held an opinion of Trifaccia who showcased a strong turn of foot to win the second event at Warwick Farm on Wednesday. âSheâs been running in better class races,â Stable Representative Darren Beadman said. âYouâre running in Group 2 and… Read More »
âItâs a big pedigree, and heâs a big, strong, tough colt with the scope to keep developing,â said Vinery Stud of their I Am Invincible half-brother to Santa Ana Lane at the Magic Millions. In highlighting Tues. 11 January, Day 1 of the MM Gold Coast Yearling Sale, heâs an… Read More »
It’s a stable in a rich vein of form with 10 winners (20% and a further 18 top fives (56%) from her past 50 runners and Goulburn-based trainer Tash Burleigh will be looking for more success at Rosehill Gardens this Saturday. Burleigh will saddle up her stable star Al Mah Haha in… Read More »
Young apprentice jockey Hannah Fitzgerald is making encouraging progress in her road to recovery following a horror race fall at Kalgoorlie on October 30. The 18-year-old was aboard the Jeff Eeles-trained Neurologic in the second-last race of the day when, shortly after crossing the line in fourth place, the gelding clipping… Read More »
Steered by Damien Oliver, Straight Arron showed signs of being a horse to follow out of the ‘off season’ midweek Sandown meeting with his win on debut in class record time. Straight Arron ($3.50), trained by Chris Waller, made a good impression in defeating $2 favourite The Economist by Ÿ-length… Read More »
The Blue Diamond Preview races are only three weeks off and 321 two-year-olds remain in contention towards the $1.5 million Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes over 1200 metres on 26 February. Coolangatta, the $1.70 favourite for next Saturday’s Magic Millions 2yo Classic (1200m), was one of those acceptances despite the… Read More »
There was a smaller-than-usual crowd of 8000 on course but far greater attention across the state on the first major event in Western Australia requiring proof of vaccination to attend. For race fans, however, the highlight was still the iconic race. Patrick Carbery steered the favourite Midnight Blue past the… Read More »
Star jockey Willie Pikeâs future as a rider appears to be very much in his own hands or, if you want to put it another way, he canât blame others for the predicament he finds himself in at this time. It should be noted at the outset that none of… Read More »
Trent Busuttin and Natalie are no strangers to the winners’ stalls across Australia but for the six-time Group 1 winning pair their biggest gamble to-date steps out on Saturday with million-dollar filly Bonheur on debut in the Ann Kikenny Handicap over 1000 metres. By I Am Invincible and her dam being 2014 Group… Read More »
