Eleven races have been set down for Singapore on Sunday in what looks a good quality meeting. We take a look at each of the eleven races and give our tips and best bets for the meeting at Singapore. Race One: 6 Gamely Race Two: 4 Blitz Power Race Three:… Read More »
Behemoth has become the first horse since Sunline to record back-to-back victories in the Group 1 Memsie Stakes at Caulfield. The South Australian galloper scored under Craig Williams in last year’s 1400m contest at weight-for-age while Brett Prebble picked up the mount this year. Prebble got the nod when Jamie Kah was suspended by Racing… Read More »
The dreams of Gavin Bedggood have been realised with the win of No Effort at Caulfield. Bedggood had picked out Saturday’s Listed Heatherlie Stakes (1700m) as the race most suitable to give No Effort all-important ‘black type’ status. Taking up her customary front runners’ role, No Effort ran her rivals into the ground, although Bedggood noted that a number of Saturday’s opposition… Read More »
She wasn’t the stable’s number one elect, but Startantes announced herself a feature race prospect in her own right after winning the $125,000 3YO Plate (1200m) at Doomben on Saturday. Trainer Robert Heathcote had designs on taking his Group 2 winner Prince Of Boom south after this race, but will… Read More »
As she did in the autumn, star New Zealand mare Probabeel has made a winning return on Australian shores at Caulfield. Probabeel won the Group 3 Bellmaine Stakes when first-up at Caulfield in the autumn and was back in action on Saturday to claim the Group 3 W W Cockram Stakes (1200m). The Jamie Richards-trained daughter of Savabeel may not… Read More »
Bjorn Baker is the first to admit he didn’t think much of Harpo Marx when the former European first arrived at his stable, but he has been quick to change his opinion. The gelding took his record to three wins from six starts this campaign and passed his first stakes-grade test with… Read More »
In The Congo fits the mould of a typical Tulloch Lodge galloper – he makes his own luck on-speed, he’s tough and he’s hard to get past. The three-year-old was all that and more at Kembla Grange on Saturday, leading throughout and pulling out all stops in the straight to… Read More »
All roads lead to The Everest Wayne Hawkes declared after the brilliant first-up win of Masked Crusader at Caulfield. Masked Crusader made a stunning return to claim the Group 3 The Heath 1100 at his first start since a successful autumn campaign that saw the Michael & Wayne & John Hawkes -trained sprinter win… Read More »
A decision to keep Bruckner to short-course racing and switch him to Melbourne has landed the expensive colt a stakes race victory at Caulfield. Having been based at the Sydney stable of Ciaron Maher and David Eustace for the first three runs of his career, the decision was made to swing him south… Read More »
Chris Waller has declared Coastwatch a Doncaster Mile contender next autumn but jockey James Mcdonald expects the Ming Dynasty winner to make his presence felt on the big stage much sooner. The three-year-old showed his first-up second to Tiger Of Malay was no fluke with a resounding victory in Saturday’s Group 3 Ming… Read More »
Luck can be crucial in racing and Royalzel got the best of it to kick off his preparation with a narrow win that not even jockey James Mcdonald thought he had scored. Taking on the older horses, Royalzel settled fourth and showed great determination to get the better of Either Oar before the… Read More »
Of all the races Chris Waller will win this season, few will give him more satisfaction than claiming the one dedicated to the late Nini Vascotto. Waller was moved to tears as he remembered the former Australian Turf Club employee and Winx’s No. 1 fan, who lost her long battle with… Read More »
Jockey Linda Meech has made a winning return to metropolitan racing guiding South Australian raider He’s A Balter to victory at Caulfield. Saturday’s victory aboard He’s A Balter in the Volvo Cars Brighton Handicap (1100m) was Meech’s first ride at Caulfield since winning aboard Guizot in March 2020. In the 18 months since that victory, Meech has given birth… Read More »
Brian Seimsen’s Black Soil Bloodstock colours were to the fore at Doomben on Saturday, as trainer Tony Gollan showcased stakes credentials for two more of the group’s horses. Miami Fleiss was back in the winning groove, while The Move further punctured his previous reputation as a bookies’ pin-up with a… Read More »
A number of jockey changes have been enforced following the suspension of four jockeys for breaching COVID protocols. In-form jockey Brett Prebble has picked up the ride on Behemoth, the favourite for the Memsie Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday. Prebble was chosen to replace Jamie Kah following her suspension on Friday, along with Ben Melham and two other jockeys, for breaching Racing Victoria COVID protocols…. Read More »
Subterranean is such a relaxed character around the stable that getting him fit can be hard work. As a result, his fresh record is only average but he has a tendency to improve quickly with a run under his belt. That is the scenario the horse finds himself in when he… Read More »
Tralee Rose will start her campaign aimed at clinching a start in the Melbourne Cup when she lines-up in the Listed Heatherlie Stakes at Caulfield. Trainer Symon Wilde has picked at Saturday’s 1700m contest as a starting point, aware that it is well short of her best distance. But Wilde said it was a part of a plan… Read More »
If Jenabel reproduces her last win, trainer Natalie Burke is confident of success in the Peter Evans Memorial Handicap (1700m) at Carnarvon on Sunday. Jenabel toyed with her opposition three weeks ago and despite racing wide she proved too strong and had four lengths to spare on runner-up Marxian. After taking… Read More »
David Payne has never doubted the ability of Obvious Step, but her racing manners have been a constant source of frustration. She showed enough to be tested in black-type grade as a three-year-old and wasn’t disgraced when beaten two lengths by subsequent Group 1 winner Forbidden Love in last year’s Reginald Allen… Read More »
Trainer Chris Attard is hopeful a significant weight advantage will go a long way to giving him his first Northern Cups victory with Bering Sea in the Cairns Cup at Cannon Park on Saturday. Bering Sea went within a short neck of giving Attard his biggest victory of his short… Read More »
