The racing days of the smart 3YO OLE KIRK (Written Tycoon – Naturale) are over. The dual Gr 1 winner who looked to have the world at his feet this campaign, has failed to flatter at his past two starts and the decision has been made to retire him. At… Read More »
Australian Guineas winner Lunar Fox is one of five horses that have been revealed as wildcard entries for the world’s richest mile race, The All-Star Mile at The Valley. Racing Victoria on Monday evening announced the five remaining places in the 15-horse field that will compete for all star mile…. Read More »
The field for the world’s richest mile race is complete with five wildcard runners announced tonight by Racing Victoria and the Moonee Valley Racing Club for the $5 million All-Star Mile to be run at The Valley on Saturday, 13 March. Premier trainer Chris Waller has accepted a wildcard with… Read More »
South Australian trainer Richard Jolly is hoping for better luck on the straight track at Flemington when Kemalpasa lines up in the Group 1 Newmarket Handicap. Jolly, who trains in partnership with daughter Chantelle, travelled to Melbourne on Saturday to watch All Banter and Alleboom finish out of the placings… Read More »
Nature Strip and Haut Brion Her are both nominated for the Group 2 scamper over 1000m this weekend, but Chris Waller hinted that he’d rather wait with the latter and save her for a fortnight later. Nature Strip showed he had returned in great form with an impressive victory under… Read More »
Nature Strip lost some of his lustre in the spring but after returning to his best in the Group One Black Caviar Lightning in Melbourne, the star speedster is on target for another dominant autumn campaign in Sydney. The multiple Group One winner will be given the chance to defend… Read More »
Tommy Berry is looking forward to reuniting with boom two-year-old Remarque when he attempts to put his Golden Slipper campaign back on track at Randwick. The youngster, an impressive winner of his only start in January, was slated to run in the Silver Slipper but suffered a setback, prompting his… Read More »
Trainer Danny O’Brien will pay a late-entry fee to run Paradee in the Australian Cup (2000m) at Flemington while the weather will determine if Miami Bound starts the Group 1 race on Saturday. O’Brien also has Miami Bound nominated for Saturday’s Listed Randwick City Stakes (2000m). “Miami Bound will either… Read More »
While disappointed that Fifty Stars was unable to become the first three-time winner of the Blamey Stakes at Flemington, Lindsay Park remains confident the imported galloper can give the stable a fourth straight win in the Australian Cup. Fifty Stars, successful in last year’s Australian Cup, was ridden by John… Read More »
Nine-time Melbourne premiership winning jockey Craig Williams has described his Newmarket Handicap mount September Run a jet ahead of partnering the filly in the time-honoured sprint over the straight 1200m course at Flemington. Williams has been aboard September Run, trained by Chris Waller, in her four starts on the straight… Read More »
In 2002 a very promising young apprentice called Kathy started in her first race. It was out in the NSW scrub and was so long ago it was forgettable. Almost. Yesterday, 19 years later and still an apprentice, that wee snip of a lass just booted home OLD HARBOUR (Your… Read More »
Snitzel isn’t a three-time Champion Sire of 2YOs for nothing and proved it once again with a sensational trans-Tasman Group double on Saturday. He now boasts 42 juvenile stakeswinners among his lifetime tally of 107 stakeswinners. First-up was Te Akau Racing’s colt Sword Of State who streeted his rivals –… Read More »
Star Tasmanian mare and inaugural All Star Mile winner Mystic Journey will miss the remainder of the Autumn carnival after sustaining an injury in the G2 Blamey Stakes at Flemington. Mystic Journey will require surgery to remove bone chips from one of her knees which were detected after she pulled… Read More »
Boom colt Bivouac is set to line-up in either the Challenge Stakes or the Canterbury Stakes this weekend. Godolphin trainer James Cummings is likely to bring star sprinter Bivouac back to Sydney to contest either the Canterbury Stakes over 1300m or the Challenge Stakes over 1000m at Randwick this week…. Read More »
Trainer Daniel Bowman is set to raise the bar with his exciting filly Capriccio with the Adelaide carnival the likely target. Bowman was bullish about his lightly raced fillies chances in the $500k Inglis Dash on Saturday despite the market not liking her chances and she proved her trainer right… Read More »
The upset winner of Saturday’s Australian Guineas, Lunar Fox could be headed to the $5m All Star Mile with the Group One win set to elevate him in selectors order of entry. Lunar Fox took out the Group One Australian Guineas at Flemington on Saturday at odds of $301 and… Read More »
Ten races will be run and won at Sha Tin on Sunday, with good depth across the meeting. Race One: 5 Moneymore Race Two: 13 Noble Desire Race Three: 6 The Crown Race Four: 4 Zone D Race Five: 7 Beauty Cheers Race Six: 12 Green Envy Race Seven: 2… Read More »
If you liked one at odds, it was a fill up on Saturday across all meetings, most notably the Australian Guineas, whilst a racing body came under scrutiny. All that and more in this weeks edition of ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’. KEY NEWS: What Does The Fox… Read More »
Richard and Michael Freedman have celebrated their first Group One win as a training partnership with Forbidden Love’s emphatic Surround Stakes victory. The milestone has continued the brothers’ outstanding start to the autumn with Stay Inside emerging as a leading Golden Slipper chance while three-year-old Prime Star has been racing… Read More »
Warrnambool trainer Daniel Bowman was happy to become another trainer pleasantly surprised by a result above expectations when his filly Capriccio won the $500,000 Inglis Dash. Following on from the Horsham-trained Lunar Fox’s win in the Australian Guineas at $301, Saturday’s Flemington meeting produced another big-priced winner with Capriccio claiming… Read More »
