Trainer Bjorn Baker revealed he is likely to bypass the Grafton Cup later this month to set Thebudgiesmugla for the spring carnival and will consider targeting the Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup double. All this from a five-year-old gelding who came from New Zealand with initial concerns he might be… Read More »
Feet problems have plagued General Salute throughout his career, but the horse has put his best hoof forward at Rosehill to land an overdue win in the Listed Winter Stakes. Co-trainer Gerald Ryan revealed the five-year-old had suffered issues almost from birth and spent a year on the sidelines following… Read More »
The form guide certainly didn’t read positively for Detonator Jack’s chances in the VRC-CRV Winter Championship Series Final but a combination of factors saw the seven-year-old find his best. Winless in 952 days prior, Detonator Jack failed to beat a runner home the start prior in the David Bourke Handicap… Read More »
Atoning for a luckless last-start defeat, Hello Captain has stretched his record to four wins from six starts at Rosehill, and if he can stretch in distance, trainer Chris Waller says the sky is the limit. The three-year-old scored over 1300m in Saturday’s Find Your Stakes Winner @ The Chase… Read More »
The advantages of the Hawkes family’s dual-state operation was on show at Saturday’s Finals Day meeting at Flemington, where the father-and-sons training team won the $175,000 Taj Rossi Series Final with Marwooba. The John, Wayne and Michael Hawkes-trained son of Wootton Bassett bounced off a win at Rosehill on June… Read More »
Boom colt Omolong is likely to be aimed at the Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes during the Melbourne spring carnival after maintaining his unbeaten record with another stylish win at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday. Omolong unleashed a powerful finishing surge to score his second win from as many starts in… Read More »
Star Sydney jockey Tommy Berry has been fined $4000 by Racing NSW stewards after pleading guilty to giving misleading evidence during an inquiry into raceday contact with disqualified trainer John O’Shea. Berry was forced to answer questions from stewards last month after he suggested in a post-race intereview that he… Read More »
Sheila Laxon has not been back to the Flemington winner’s room since the first Tuesday in November a couple of years ago, but she is optimistic of a return this Saturday. The Macedon Lodge trainer and her partner John Symons have three Finals Day shots at their first Flemington winner… Read More »
General Salute boasts some of the best form lines of any horse competing at Rosehill on Saturday, and jockey Tim Clark says he only needs to race up to those to win the feature sprint on the card. The gelding finished runner-up to star mare Autumn Glow in last year’s… Read More »
Billy Egan hasn’t played much of a role in Jimmy The Bear’s Winter Championship defence to this point, but he will reclaim the keys at the right time. The no-fuss jockey will be reunited with the Patrick Payne-trained gelding in Saturday’s $200,000 Listed final at Flemington. It will be the… Read More »
It has been reported that the new inquiry into the Alligator Blood Magic Millions 3YO Guineas result is now set to commence on July 21, although the former, well-respected steward Ray Murrihy, who was due to chair the inquiry when it was previously set down to begin on May 21,… Read More »
Progressive Lindsay Park stayer The Western Front will continue his enduring campaign in Saturday’s $150,000 Banjo Paterson Series Final at Flemington. The 2600-metre event will be the 10th start of a campaign that began with a fourth placing in a benchmark 70 over 1600m at Flemington all the way back… Read More »
Obvious will be chasing what two months ago seemed an unlikely Finals Day victory when he looks to make it back-to-back wins at Flemington this Saturday. The Greg Eurell-trained gelding goes around in the Silver Bowl Final, a 1600-metre event for three-year-olds. The son of Toronado became a leading contender… Read More »
It has been twenty-two months since McHale last won a race, but assistant trainer Charlie Duckworth believes the stable might have found the key to breaking that drought. The five-year-old will line up in Saturday’s Listed Winter Stakes (1400m) chasing his first win since Rachel King guided him to victory… Read More »
Consistent stayer Pounding might have more seconds than a clock, but few horses deserve a win more. In that vein, trainers Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman have elected to give him another opportunity to get a victory on the board by backing him up into Saturday’s Listed Caloundra Cup (2400m)… Read More »
Kris Lees will implement a similar formula to the one he used for Bestower’s most recent win when the mare tackles the Caloundra Cup on a seven-day back-up. The five-year-old’s last victory came at Warwick Farm in December when she stepped out over 2400 metres off a 10-day turnaround. At… Read More »
Belinda Blanch can’t work out why Lingani is such an effective wet-tracker, but she’s beyond wasting too much time thinking about it. Now she just embraces it and gets excited when the star of the Morphettville stable she operates with husband Peter gets the chance to race on one. That… Read More »
Whinchat’s return to form last start has trainer David Pfieffer optimistic the free-rolling frontrunner is on the verge of an overdue stakes race breakthrough. After doing himself no favours when becoming involved in a speed duel with Phearson first-up in the Luskin Star Stakes (1300m), Whinchat worked to cross from… Read More »
Toowoomba based trainer Rex Lipp was less than pleased with the ride aboard his stable star Cifrado last start in the Eye Liner Stakes at Ipswich, prompting a jockey change for this Saturday’s Listed Glasshouse Handicap at Sunshine Coast. Lipp voiced his frustration with Boris Thornton’s ride at Ipswich when held up… Read More »
Neither of Alex Rae’s Creswick Sprint Series heat winners will be at Flemington for this Saturday’s final, but the young Cranbourne trainer is still a chance of lifting the trophy. Progressive gelding Blankfield will represent the stable in the $175,000 Listed 1200-metre event for three-year-olds. I’m Foxing, who brilliantly won… Read More »
