The unstoppable Gai Waterhouse has masterminded another Group 1 boilover with Never Been Kissed upstaging her more fancied rivals to win the Flight Stakes at Randwick. The filly’s victory came a week after Waterhouse and co-trainer Adrian Bott produced In The Congo to upset star colt Anamoe in the Golden Rose and brought… Read More »
Tommy Berry has had to learn the hard way that Masked Crusader is no Chautauqua but the sprinter is an undeniable talent in his own right. The Hawkes Racing five-year-old underlined his Everest claims with a dashing win in Saturday’s Premiere Stakes (1200m) at Randwick and Berry is adamant there is improvement… Read More »
Fred Kersley landed his biggest victory when he guided Godolphin colt Kallos to victory in Danehill Stakes at Flemington. Prior to Saturday’s win in the Group 2 dash up the Flemington straight 1100m course, Kersley’s previous biggest win had been at Listed level in last year’s Cranbourne Cup. Kersley went close to winning the Group… Read More »
The decision to keep Think It Over in Sydney this spring has been vindicated with the gelding scoring a typically tough Group 2 win that has him in contention for a $500,000 bonus. Connections had been considering a 2021 Cox Plate campaign but with staff unable to travel interstate with their… Read More »
Ciaron Maher might have a languid drawl when he speaks but there is nothing slow about Coolangatta, who has lived up to her boom with a dynamic Gimcrack Stakes performance. As he did 12 months ago aboard stablemate Enthaar, James McDonald settled Coolangatta trailing the speed and ensured she had plenty… Read More »
Elusive Express has potentially put her hand up for a start in the VRC Oaks after claiming her first stakes victory at Flemington. The Anthony and Sam Freedman-trained daughter of Jakkalberry took out the Group 2 Edward Manifold Stakes (1610m) on Saturday at her fourth career start. Under the guidance of Jye Mcneil and starting the… Read More »
Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr have taken the opening two juvenile races in Melbourne after Get In The Spirit outsped her rivals at Flemington. Get In The Spirit scored a debut win in the Listed Maribyrnong Trial Stakes (1000m) on Saturday which followed Cavalla at the same track in the opening two-year-old race of the season on September 22. Drawing wide in the… Read More »
Star rider Jason Collettâs little sister Alysha Collett can win her first Gr 1 race in Australia when she mounts ARAMAYO (Poetâs Voice – Peruvian) in the $1.5million Epsom this afternoon at Randwick. She backs up in the very next race the $750k Gr 1 Metrop over 2400m with CHARMâS… Read More »
Racing South Australia (Racing SA) has announced that jumps races will no longer be scheduled on the stateâs racing calendar as of next year. In explaining its decision, Racing SA referred to its data-base of horses with the current data showing there is less than ten jumps horses domiciled in… Read More »
Jockey Ben Allen can feel the quality in Instant Celebrity and is expecting the mare to bounce back at Flemington. Allen rides Instant Celebrity for the first time on Saturday when they team up in the Group 2 Rose Of Kingston Stakes (1410m). With Craig Williams and Jamie Kah both sidelined through suspension, Allen,… Read More »
As the temperature in racing heats up in the coming months in Australia so too does the activity in the top New Zealand based stables as they look to plunder some of the riches on offer. The Cambridge based trainer Tony Pike, who is no stranger to tackling big feature… Read More »
The revolving door that represents the change in fortunes in racing is always moving ⊠and trainer Danny OâBrien can attest to that. With his 2019 Melbourne Cup winner Vow And Declare disappointingly sidelined for the Spring, OâBrien will welcome the well-performed Callsign Mav into his yard in the near… Read More »
The Danehill Stakes has undergone a shake up this year to make it the perfect lead up race to a Group 1 race for three-year-old sprinters. Previously run over 1200m at the Victoria Racing Club’s September meeting, the Danehill Stakes on Saturday has been shortened 100m and swaps places with the Listed Poseidon Stakes (1100m) on the… Read More »
David McColm has been something of a quiet achiever since returning to the training ranks, seldom garnering any headlines. By contrast though, his statistics loudly trumpet just how good a job he is doing from limited opportunities. McColm, who has been in and out of the training over the years,… Read More »
Chris Waller is shooting for his fifth successive Turnbull Stakes at Flemington with Verry Elleegant but the champion trainer has great respect for Incentivise. Nine-time Group 1 winner Verry Elleegant and Incentivise meet for the first time in Saturday’s 2000m feature with Waller saying Incentivise, who is chasing his eighth straight win, is very good. “He’s… Read More »
Itâs the 100th Prix de lâArc de Triomphe, and again itâs the battle of the heavy weights, with the Aga Khan vâs Godolphin vâs Coolmore, and with the Japanese ready to invade. In not having won the âArcâ since 2008 when successful with the undefeated Zarkava, HH The Aga Khan… Read More »
Ten races will be run and won at Sha Tin this Friday, where the feature race is the Group lll Celebration Cup (1400m). Race One: 5 Good News Race Two: 2 Lord Thunder Race Three: 1 Speed Fay Fay Race Four: 3 Viva Popcorn Race Five: 8 Nervous Witness Race… Read More »
The Epsom Handicap meeting will usher in the latest generation of babies with the first of the new-season two-year-olds to step out in the Gimcrack Stakes and Breeders’ Plate. Ciaron Maher and David Eustace won last year’s Gimcrack (1000m) with Enthaar and they will again saddle-up the popular favourite Coolangatta, an impressive… Read More »
The Victoria Racing Club is hopeful of having crowds of up to 11,500 people across the four days of the Melbourne Cup Carnival. The Club advised members of their hopes on Wednesday having lodged plans with the appropriate Victorian State Government authorities for a crowd plan across the Carnival. VRC chief executive Steve Rosich… Read More »
Andrew Adkins is finally in a good place. Having spent six months recovering from horrific injuries suffered in a race fall, he worked his way back to health, then fitness and finally a return to race riding on the eve of the autumn carnival. Bu it was a tough time of… Read More »
