Standalone Saturday racing in Victoria continues this Saturday at Pakenham where it is Pakenham Cup Day. The weather is fine, the track is soft (6) and the rail is in the true position for the entire circuit. Pakenham Cup 🏆: View the Field for the Pakenham Cup
A nine race card has been assembled for Rosehill this Saturday. The weather is fine, the track is good (4) and the rail is out three metres for the entire circuit.
The Brisbane Summer Carnival continues at Doomben this Saturday with a bumper nine race card headlined by several blacktype races. The weather is fine, the track is soft (5) and the rail is out a metre for the entire circuit. Brisbane Handicap 🏆: View the Field for the Brisbane Handicap
The Tabtouch Masters at Ascot concludes this Saturday with a nine race card, headlined by the Group l Kingston Town Classic (1800m). The weather is fine, the track is good (4) and the rail is in the true position for the entire circuit. Kingston Town Classic 🏆: View the Field… Read More »
The owners of champion Winx are expected to confirm she is successfully in-foal to super sire I Am Invincible in the coming days. With protocols akin to a Royal announcement, connections will wait until the results of the 45-day scan before confirming her pregnancy on Monday. A report in The… Read More »
The inclusion of New Zealanders in the public vote for positions in the All-Star Mile has bolstered the Kiwis’ interest in the $5 million race. Melbourne spring Group One winner Melody Belle and her stablemate, Cox Plate placegetter Te Akau Shark, are likely contenders, with connections of New Zealand 2000… Read More »
Disqualified trainer Ben Currie is listed to appear in the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal where he will seek to overturn two convictions for bringing racing into disrepute. He originally faced more than 40 charges, half of which have been resolved with many the subject of appeals. Twenty one of… Read More »
A field of 16 has been accepted for the final Group One race of the year, the Kingston Town Stakes at Ascot. Of the 16 horses in Saturday’s $1 million, 1800m Kingston Town Classic in Perth, four are trained in the eastern states. Tally and Best Of Days represent Godolphin… Read More »
The Brisbane Racing Club is aiming for big numbers for its new $2.25 million Future Champion series this winter when nominations close this week. The Queensland winter carnival has produced a long list of future Group One stars but the Brisbane Racing Club believes it can surpass even those numbers… Read More »
Trainer Danny O’Brien will not be deviating too far from the successful Queensland winter campaign that landed him a Melbourne Cup victory with Vow And Declare. During the winter, Vow And Declare ran in the Grand Prix Stakes and Queensland Derby, before beating older horses in the Tatt’s Cup (3000m)… Read More »
In a training triumph for the McEvoy stable, Hey Doc has led all the way to win the Group One Winterbottom Stakes at Ascot in Perth. After more than a year off recovering from injury, Hey Doc returned with a close third in a Group Three race at Sandown earlier… Read More »
Desleigh Forster declared Chapter And Verse could be the best horse she has trained after the gelding came from near last to win the Group Three George Moore Stakes at Doomben. In a thrilling finish which saw eight horses across the track in the final 100m, Chapter And Verse ($6.50)… Read More »
Curses quickly turned to cheers for trainer Peter Snowden as he went from lamenting Spending To Win’s early keenness to watching him run his rivals ragged in the Listed Starlight Stakes. Snowden said he did not expect the six-year-old to lead Saturday’s 1100- metre sprint at Rosehill and feared he… Read More »
Secret Blaze has shown a glimpse of his toughness with a fighting win at The Valley with the Tony and Calvin McEvoy stable to consider a Pakenham Cup start with the gelding. Covering ground over the 2040m journey of Saturday’s Kingsville Manor Lakes Handicap, Secret Blaze held off the favourite… Read More »
Flying filly Sugar Boom’s liking for female riders helped in-form apprentice Stephanie Thornton score her biggest win since switching to Queensland. Thornton went straight to the lead on Sugar Boom ($5) who ran the field into the ground before beating Oh Five Glory ($7.50) by three-quarters of a length in… Read More »
Godolphin’s Darren Beadman has been involved in many tight finishes as a jockey and he was not about to put his head on the chopping block when Ranier and Live And Free hit the line together in the Festival Stakes. Just as Brenton Avdulla looked like he had stolen victory… Read More »
A stint in the warmer climes of Queensland has reinvigorated Alward who has claimed a first stakes win in the Listed ATC Cup at Rosehill. Alward spent the winter and most of the spring at trainer Chris Waller’s Gold Coast stable and backed up an open handicap win at Doomben… Read More »
Connections of Rubisaki are eyeing a rich restricted race in Sydney after the filly defied a betting drift to win first-up at The Valley. Part-owner Joe O’Neill said Rubisaki was being aimed at the $1 million Inglis Sprint at Warwick Farm in February following her victory in Saturday’s Ladbrokes Cash… Read More »
Premier trainer Tony Gollan continued to dominate the summer carnival feature races when Le Palmier won the $125,000 Winning Rupert Plate at Doomben. Le Palmier ($7) bounded straight to the lead and was never headed, carving the 1200m out in a slick 1.9.21. Gollan, who won the Winning Rupert with… Read More »
The Perth Summer Racing Carnival at Ascot continues this Saturday, headlined by the Group l Winterbottom Stakes (1200m). The weather is fine, the track is good (4) and the rail is out four metres for the entire circuit. Winterbottom 🏆: View the Winterbottom Stakes Field
