The Everest winner is now a Group 1 winner after Giga Kick outpointed a classy All Aged Stakes field to close the curtain on a thrilling Sydney autumn carnival. In taking out Saturday’s $1.5 million All Aged Stakes, Giga Kick gave his young trainer Clayton Douglas a first major and capped… Read More »
Racing Victoria does not need to look far for its new VOBIS Gold pin-up horse with Shesallshenanigans affirming her affinity for the concept at Sandown on Saturday. The Simon Zahra-trained filly made it back-to-back wins in two-year-old races restricted to Victorian-bred horses with a brilliant win in the $1 million The… Read More »
For all his many achievements, training the winners of the major two-year-old races had never been Chris Waller’s niche. But the champion horseman changed that reputation in the space of a season after making a clean sweep of Sydney’s juvenile triple crown. Waller did it with two exciting colts, taking… Read More »
One of Matt Cumani’s major ambitions as a trainer is to emulate his legendary father and win a Derby and the Ballarat trainer is confident he has found the horse who can provide one in Bengal Boy. The progressive son of Dundeel did what few horses achieve and broke his maiden… Read More »
Still smarting from a missed opportunity in the Randwick Guineas, there was some consolation for Chris Waller as Osipenko rounded out his autumn with a victory in the Frank Packer Plate. Osipenko had been favourite for the Group 1 Guineas before his scratching on race morning due to an elevated temperature and… Read More »
Peter Moody’s talented four-year-old gelding, I Wish I Win, has taken the racing world by storm, claiming the title of the world’s best sprinter in the LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings. The ranking came after the horse’s outstanding victory in the Group 1 TJ Smith Stakes (1200m) at Randwick, where… Read More »
Peter Snowden has put a bridle on his share of top horses, but he can’t ever recall having a better wet track galloper than Mazu. While several trainers are keeping an anxious eye on the weather ahead of Saturday’s All Aged Stakes (1400m), Snowden is content in the knowledge Mazu will… Read More »
The only two-year-old to contest all three Group One races so far this season, Don Corleone will make it a quartet of big race appearances when he bids to turn the tables on last start conqueror Militarize in the Champagne Stakes. While Don Corleone has 3-1/2 lengths to make up on his… Read More »
James Cummings has given the strongest indication since Anamoe’s defeat in last Saturday’s Queen Elizabeth Stakes that a trip to England remains on the cards for the four-year-old. The Queen Anne Stakes on Day 1 of the Royal Ascot meeting had long been touted as a favoured swansong for Anamoe, until… Read More »
Group 1 winner Uncommon James has come a long way in a short period of time and will be racing for the biggest prize of his career in Perth. The Steven O’Dea and Matthew Hoysted-trained sprinter is set to contest Western Australia’s first ‘slot’ race, akin to The Everest in Sydney, the $4 million The… Read More »
Moderately bred and plain to the eye, Giga Kick hardly made an overwhelming first impression when he arrived at Clayton Douglas’s stable. “He was such a little, weedy fellow. He was so quiet, so unassuming,” Douglas said. “He went through the process of his first prep, he was very narrow-gutted, very… Read More »
James Cummings is enjoying an outstanding season with his two-year-olds and he will bid to parlay that into a Group 1 win on the final day of the Sydney autumn carnival. The Godolphin head trainer will start late-blooming juveniles Amur and Tom Kitten in the Champagne Stakes (1600m) at Randwick on Saturday, the… Read More »
There would not be as many well-travelled mares in Australia than the Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained Bella Nipotina. The rising six-year-old will add Perth to the list of Australian capital cities she has raced in when a starter in the $4 million The Quokka (1200m) at Ascot on Saturday. Bella Nipotina started… Read More »
Jordan Childs completed a feature race double at Sandown which in turn could lead to bigger wins later in the year. Forty mintues after guiding Cardinal Gem to victory in the Group 3 Victoria Handicap (1400m) on Saturday, Childs led throughout on White Marlin to win the Group 3 Easter Cup (2100m). The victory in… Read More »
Usually front and centre of the biggest races on the biggest days, Chris Waller didn’t saddle up a runner in this year’s Queen Elizabeth Stakes. But it didn’t stop him making his mark on Day Two of The Championships, the champion trainer celebrating a Group 1 win with Atishu in the Queen… Read More »
William Haggas has done it again. After twice producing Addeybb to lower the colours of pin-up mare Verry Elleegant in the 2020 and 2021 Queen Elizabeth Stakes, the UK training master has returned to conquer the $5 million race with Dubai Honour. Billed as a match-up between the English raider and local… Read More »
Dylan Gibbons has celebrated his maiden Group 1 win aboard comeback galloper Explosive Jack, running down outsider True Marvel in the final bounds in a thrilling Sydney Cup finish. The gifted apprentice had been knocking on the door for a major and his moment came in one of the most difficult and… Read More »
Almost two decades after his last visit to Randwick, New Zealand horseman James Wallace has pulled off a rare cross-Tasman double with Pennyweka adding the ATC Australian Oaks to her New Zealand Oaks victory. Wallace was a frequent visitor to Australia during the early 2000s with his multiple Group 1 winner Cent… Read More »
Trainer Lloyd Kennewell admitted being on edge prior to the running of a Stakes race at Sandown. Kennewell had the $3 betr favourite I Am Unstoppable engaged in the Listed Redoute’s Choice Stakes (1200m) on Saturday. A big fan of the I Am Invincible breed, Kennewell said I Am Unstoppable was potentially the best youngster he has trained…. Read More »
Mike Moroney is banking on a rain-affected track proving pivotal for import Alenquer when he heads to Sydney to take on heavyweights Anamoe and Dubai Honour in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes. A Group 1 winner in Ireland, Alenquer disappointed at his Australian debut when he failed to beat a runner home in the… Read More »
