Champion Australian trainer Lee Freedman has accepted a position to train in Singapore after his license application was approved and will make the move overseas to continue his illustrious training career. Freedman in his long and successful Australian training career won five Melbourne Cups, four Caulfield Cups, four Golden Slippers… Read More »
Hey Doc will further his quest to add another Group One win to his record with an exhibition gallop at Moonee Valley. The winner of the Australian Guineas at Flemington in the autumn, Hey Doc is set to compete in the Memsie Stakes at Caulfield on September 2. As part… Read More »
As a Group One winner Lasqueti Spirit is the highest-rated horse in the Rowley Mile at Hawkesbury but her trainer Lee Curtis is not expecting too much from the mare as she begins her spring campaign. She is a $35 chance in Thursday’s 10-horse Rowley Mile field with Arbeitsam the odds-on… Read More »
Gary Moore is confident Classic Uniform is poised to claim his first win since February when he tackles the Listed Premier’s Cup at Rosehill. The five-year-old gelding’s previous win in the Listed Parramatta Cup at Rosehill was over 1900 metres and he steps up to the same trip five starts… Read More »
A gallop at Moonee Valley has Heatherly primed to begin her spring campaign in a Listed race at the inner-city course. The Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra-trained mare runs in Saturday’s Carlyon Stakes (1000m), a race she won 12 months ago. After last year’s success, Heatherly went on to be… Read More »
Sheer Madness will take his next step towards a possible Victoria Derby start when he contests a midweek race at Sandown. A last-start winner over 1400m at Flemington, Sheer Madness runs in the Dream Thoroughbreds Handicap (1500m) on Wednesday. Frank Salanitri, a part-owner of the three-year-old and racing manager for… Read More »
Pariah has opened the $2.70 favourite for Saturday’s San Domenico Stakes at Rosehill, but seven runners find themselves in single figure odds for the Group 3. Tulip ($4.80) heads the three-pronged attack from the Hayes and Dabernig stable alongside Madeenaty ($11) and Muraahib ($31). In the Ming Dynasty Handicap, Addictive Nature is… Read More »
Victorian racing is in a healthy financial position following the release of key results for last season. It comes after two distinct halves, firstly a wet spring and then a drier than expected second half of the year. Racing Victoria announced wagering grew by 8.4 per cent to $6.24 billion,… Read More »
Red Cardinal has been displaced as the Melbourne Cup favourite following his fifth in the Prix Kergorlay at Deauville but his owners remain upbeat. Trained in Germany by Andreas Wohler for Australian Bloodstock, the combination successful with Protectionist in the 2014 Cup, Red Cardinal will still head to Australia. He… Read More »
Lindsay Park will again need to separate its vast array of three-year-olds as spring approaches. Already the stable has sent Formality and Eshtiraak to Sydney with the former winning the Group Two Silver Shadow Stakes at Randwick on Saturday. Fillies Catchy and Ploverset kicked off their campaigns with placings at… Read More »
Another Sin has already been thrown in the deep end once and held his head high with trainer Brett Cavanough considering an even bigger test for his second start. The three-year-old lived up to his part of the deal to pull off a big betting plunge on debut in a… Read More »
Trainer Lindsey Smith is taking no chances with leading Perth horse Scales Of Justice ahead of his Melbourne campaign. With the gelding’s first run still six weeks away, Smith and Scales Of Justice have settled into the stables of Jarrod McLean who combines training his own horses with his job… Read More »
It seems Winx had an easier time in the Warwick Stakes than those watching with her trainer saying she has come through the race better than ever. After missing the start by four lengths in Saturday’s Warwick Stakes, Winx showed why she is the world’s best horse on turf when… Read More »
Lindsay Park will take a number of their spring hopefuls to the country track of Tatura for an important set of trials. Caulfield and Melbourne Cups contenders Ventura Storm and Harlem will trial over 1400m on Tuesday while sprinters and middle distance gallopers Redkirk Warrior, Sheidel, Dibiyani and Red Bomber… Read More »
Champion mare Winx has surely albeit unofficially proved herself as the best in the world with current title holder Arrogate failing again in the Grade 1 Pacific Classic at Del Mar. Winx who took out the Warwick Stakes yesterday in heart in mouth fashion has shown she is now the… Read More »
Despite giving the racing world a scare in the Warwick Stakes where she missed the jump by four lengths settling at the back of the field and only narrowly beating her stablemate Foxplay on the line she has pulled up in great order says trainer Chris Waller. It was Winx’s… Read More »
Vega Magic has shown he will be a force in the first Group One race of the season after carrying a big weight to a first-up win in the Regal Roller Stakes at Caulfield. The former Perth sprinter won the Group One Goodwood (1200m) in Adelaide in his first start… Read More »
Godolphin’s decision to head to Melbourne with Hartnell and bypass champion mare Winx has paid an immediate dividend with a PB Lawrence Stakes win at Caulfield. Hartnell had the 1400m Group Two race at his mercy soon after jockey Craig Williams jumped the gelding from the barriers and had him… Read More »
A fast-finishing win in the Vain Stakes at Caulfield has set the platform for what could be an exciting spring for unbeaten colt Jukebox. The Ciaron Maher-trained Jukebox won his two starts as a juvenile before being scratched by stewards on the eve of the Group One Blue Diamond Stakes… Read More »
Sweet Redemption has made a successful return to racing in the Group Three Toy Show Quality at Randwick. The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained mare led with Adam Hyeronimus and withstood the late challenges of Euro Angel ($4) and Imposing Lass ($3.10 favourite), to score by a long head. Bott… Read More »
