Ben Thompson, who has had an outstanding season since relocating to Queensland, will be looking to put the cherry on the top of his season’s achievements when he takes aim at a Group 1 win on Stradbroke Day. Thompson has two opportunities to go away a Group 1 winner. He… Read More »
Darren Taylor experienced his first feature race as a trainer last Saturday and although She’s God To You ran a credible race he’s elected against running the filly in next weeks Belmont Guineas (1600m). The daughter of Playing God finished third behind Graceful Girl in the Listed Raconteur Stakes, but… Read More »
Peter and Paul Snowden will saddle up three runners in the Dane Ripper Stakes after opting to give Jen Rules the chance to bow out of racing as a Group 2 winner. The Redoute’s Choice five-year-old has been a wonderful stalwart for the stable, winning four of her 28 starts and placing… Read More »
Tommy Berry has his sights on a first Stradbroke Handicap win aboard Hawkes Racing’s Wild Planet. Having spent several weeks resisting the temptation of Brisbane’s winter carnival races to focus on his Sydney premiership chase, Tommy Berry has finally succumbed. The top jockey will head to Eagle Farm on Saturday… Read More »
Bonny mare Sweet Deal will line up for her penultimate start in the Dane Ripper Stakes at Eagle Farm on Saturday before attempting to bow out of racing as a Group 1 winner. Recently sold for $850,000 at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale, the multiple stakes winner and $1.5 million earner has… Read More »
Ranveer is set for a brief winter campaign to build some prize money ahead of the spring. A winter meeting at Sandown may not be the time of year to see a young horse that his trainer has aspirations for in some of the bigger spring races. But that is… Read More »
Grand Piano will take the next step towards resurrecting his career at Randwick on Saturday. Farm life isn’t for everyone, even horses. Twelve months ago, Grand Piano won four of his five autumn starts and was being touted as a lightweight chance for the Stradbroke Handicap. But after struggling to force… Read More »
European import Dr Drill will be out to register his first win in 13 months when he runs at Sandown. The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained six-year-old son of Dansili runs in the Ladbrokes Bet Ticker Handicap (1800m) on Saturday. The 1800m contest will be the first time Dr Drill has competed in… Read More »
Team Snowden has adopted a strategy of fresh is best for Stradbroke Handicap hopeful I Am Superman. Former Irish horse I Am Superman is in his third campaign with Peter and Paul Snowden and the training partners believe they have unravelled the key to the talented sprinter-miler. In what might appear to… Read More »
When it comes to winning rides, Jamie Kah has had the most success with Adelaide’s John Macmillan than any other trainer. Jamie Kah will reunite with her old boss at Sandown when Arkham Knight makes the journey over from Adelaide. Kah did her apprenticeship with Arkham Knight’s trainer John Macmillan who has… Read More »
Tommy Berry hopes to get another chance to jump aboard Zaaki in the future after turning down the ride on him three starts ago. Tommy Berry will reunite with Nettoyer in the $1.2 million Q22 but in a sliding doors moment, he could easily have found himself partnering rising star… Read More »
Mark Newnham believes Gone Bye will continue to improve as he gets deeper into his winter preparation. A record which suggests handy campaigner Gone Bye improves rapidly at his second start from a spell is being treated with caution by his trainer, who believes he may be a run behind schedule…. Read More »
‘The Big H’ … The Harrovian … is steady on the third line of betting for Saturday’s $1.5 million Stradbroke Handicap and there wouldn’t be a more popular winner with the Queensland crowd if the son of Fastnet Rock was to give the training partnership of Toby and Trent Edmonds… Read More »
Mimosas will be out to remain unbeaten when he heads to Sandown for his second race start. Clayton Douglas says it was good to get in the good books of his future mother-in-law with the debut win of Mimosas at Flemington. Mimosas is owned by Karen Kah, the mother of Douglas’ fiancee and Melbourne’s… Read More »
The task facing King Magnus in his bid to remain unbeaten fresh has not been lost on his co-trainer Robbie Griffiths & Mathew De Kock. King Magnus is yet to be beaten in his first-up appearances and makes his return in the Ladbroke It! Handicap (1300m) at Sandown on Saturday. The rising… Read More »
A missed barrier trial proved to be more crucial than John Thompson had hoped but he is confident he has smart mare Fituese ready to atone in the Listed Bob Charley AO Stakes at Randwick. Thompson had wanted to give Fituese two trials leading into her first-up run in the… Read More »
The early scratching from the Stradbroke of last years’ big race runner-up, Madam Rouge opens the door for the first emergency Outback Barbie to come into the race … meaning that ace Brisbane trainer Tony Gollan, who already has the favourite Vega One in the race will now have a… Read More »
Trainer Robert Heathcote has run second … not once but twice … in his biggest hometown feature, the Stradbroke Handicap, and he will have another bite at the cherry when Emerald Kingdom, who qualified for the race with a golden, ballot free ticket by winning the BRC Sprint last time… Read More »
If Zaaki has any chinks in his armour, Mark Newnham is hoping Spirit Ridge is the horse to expose them. Rival trainer Mark Newnham is not running scared of boom horse Zaaki, who he believes has two hurdles to overcome if he is to justify his odds-on quote in the $1.2… Read More »
Adelaide-based Stuart Gower has sent his promising middle-distance galloper Mongolian Marshal to Melbourne for a race at Sandown but is reluctant to follow suit. Gower fears he will be forced to undergo a 14-day quarantine when he returns home if he came to Melbourne to saddle Mongolian Marshal in the Ladbrokes Bet… Read More »
