From two-year-olds to stayers, Ciaron Maher openly admits to having had a phenomenal 2023 in races at the highest level and King Colorado provide another group one win for the stable in the JJ Atkins Stakes (1600m) for juveniles at Eagle Farm. Backed from $51 into a starting price of… Read More »
Ciaron Maher and David Eustace are hurtling towards a maiden win in the Australian trainers’ premiership and Saturday’s racing, right across Australia, highlighted why. The Victorian training partners dominated the Sandown meeting in Melbourne, training five winners, while also picking up wins at two different venues in Queensland. Group 1 J J… Read More »
It might have been an off-season winter meeting in Sydney, but it proved prolific for trainer Bjorn Baker and apprentice Dylan Gibbons with both celebrating significant milestones. Baker took seven horses to Randwick and five of them won, giving the Warwick Farm-based horseman his first quintet. Gibbons too had a day to… Read More »
Luck hasn’t always favoured Spacewalk, but the Godolphin sprinter has been rewarded for his consistency with his first black-type success. The gelding has had to settle for his fair share of stakes placings, including when he threw away almost certain victory in last year’s The Rosebud by ducking out, and… Read More »
New Zealand jockey Wiremu Pinn continues to tick off the milestones early in his stint in Australia and can now say he’s a Saturday city winner. But not content with his first win on Australian racing’s biggest day of the week, the boom apprentice racked up a winning double. After scoring… Read More »
Dylan Gibbons was left searching for superlatives after emerging colt Ozzmosis maintained his unbeaten record with a classy victory over the highly-touted Royal Tribute at Randwick. The top apprentice compared the Bjorn Baker-trained winner to a luxury car and said the most exciting aspect of his performance was the fact he was… Read More »
Fields of Omagh, the revered two-time Cox Plate winner and beloved member of Living Legends, has passed away, leaving a void in the hearts of racing enthusiasts. Fondly known as Foo, he held a special place as the founding horse of the organization. “Foo was a very special horse, a wonderful… Read More »
Racing Victoria has announced a tenth race on Saturday’s will be trialled for 12 months commencing from the new season in August. The extra race will carry $80,000 in prize money and will provide a broad mix of opportunities for connections, with some of the smaller stables to be beneficiaries. A total of $3.52 million… Read More »
With horses the ilk of Everest runner-up Private Eye and Stradbroke Handicap contenders Think About It and Scallopini, syndicators Proven Thoroughbreds are flying high. But the road hasn’t always been an easy one. Director Jamie Walter, the brother of late trainer Guy Walter, started the business more than 20 years ago and… Read More »
Fine weather, a favourable barrier draw and a fit racehorse are the ingredients Grahame Begg says can give him a first win in the Stradbroke Handicap. Begg has finished second twice in the Group 1 1400m handicap and third once and believes Cardinal Gem can break that drought at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Cardinal Gem drew… Read More »
Australian jockeys and trainers were shocked to learn that racing in Singapore is to cease next year. The Singapore Turf Club told participants on Monday that the last meeting in Singapore would be on October 5, 2024, after 180 years of racing. Melbourne Cup winning jockey Corey Brown had a successful three-and-a-half-year stint in Singapore before… Read More »
Mark Zahra is looking forward to reuniting with the Anthony and Sam Freedman-trained Without A Fight in the Q22 at Eagle Farm Without A Fight staged an impressive first-up win for the father-and-son training operation when successful in the Group 3 Lord Mayor’s Cup (1800m) on May 27. Saturday’s Group 2… Read More »
The Brisbane carnival is in full effect and trainer Chris Waller will be hoping to post a fourth victory in the $1 million JJ Atkins at Eagle Farm next weekend. He has tasted success in the Group One feature with The Autumn Sun in 2018, Press Statement in 2015 and Pressday in… Read More »
Emerging star Amokura has claimed the Group 1 Queensland Oaks in just her first racing preparation. The daughter of Kermadec was having her sixth race start, having won her previous two outings by 9 lengths and 2 lengths respectively. The three-year-old was Kris Lees’ sixteenth Group 1 winner and his first… Read More »
Irish import Al Aabir ($2.80F) has been a model of consistency since landing on our shores and a mid-race decision by jockey Kerrin Mcevoy has seen the Chris Waller-trained gelding get his first stakes victory in the Listed Winter Cup at Rosehill. After settling in the back half of the field in… Read More »
It is long way between Dundalk and Melbourne and Robbie Downey has ridden winners at racecourses between Ireland, United Kingdom and in Victoria, and can now claim having ridden a winner at Flemington. The 26-year-old won the RCH Staff Appreciation Plate aboard the Nigel Blackiston-trained Verifier ($5.50). “He’s a beautiful rider,” Blackiston… Read More »
Jockey Dean Yendall said he had jokingly told trainer Paul Preusker a couple of months ago that Steparty could be something special for latter’s Horsham stable. With an impressive victory in the Royal Children’s Hospital Trophy (1200m) at Flemington on Saturday, those words could be vindicated as the two-year-old by… Read More »
After a false start last week, Winx’s half-sister City Of Lights is set to make her debut this Sunday. The daughter of Deep Impact and Vegas Showgirl is down to run in the 1418-metre three-year-old fillies maiden that is the fourth race on the Geelong card and is scheduled to… Read More »
Baller will be on trial for a Stradbroke Handicap start when he defends is crown in Saturday’s $300,000 Group 2 Moreton Cup at Eagle Farm. Trainer Tony Gollan resisted the temptation of tackling the Stradbroke with the son of High Chaparral after last year’s 1200-metre race, but the $3 million Group 1… Read More »
As a Golden Slipper winner, Fireburn has already achieved more than most horses. As an eight-time Group 1-winning trainer, Gary Portelli is even more accomplished. But there would be few more satisfying achievements for the Warwick Farm horseman than winning Saturday’s Queensland Oaks (2200m) with his 2022 Golden Slipper winner. Not only… Read More »
