Chris Waller has scratched Espiona and Hinged from the Phar Lap Stakes with the pair set to take on the older mares in the Group 1 Coolmore Classic. However, he remains in a strong position to claim his sixth successive win in the three-year-old feature on Saturday with Fangirl to line up alongside stablemates… Read More »
Sydney’s wet weather has all but foiled Anthony Cummings’ bid to get Libertini ready for a first-up assault on the Group 1 The Galaxy. Cummings had slated Saturday week’s Rosehill sprint for the mare’s autumn return but said the loss of some barrier trial sessions due to the rain and… Read More »
After nearly three years together, Michael and Richard Freedman have announced an end to their training partnership. Brothers Michael and Richard Freedman are set to go their separate ways having announced the end of their training partnership. The pair joined forces in 2019 and will end their partnership on April… Read More »
Last years Golden Slipper winner Stay Inside has been retired after a relatively disappointing spring campaign. Newgate Farmâs Henry Field confirmed that the Richard and Michael Freedman-trained colt had run his last race after the boom colt failed to fire in the Spring running fifth in the Domenico Stakes and… Read More »
Hitotsu headlines a trio of three-year-olds who have been granted wildcard entry into this year’s $5 million All-Star Mile. Racing Victoria on Monday night announced that co-trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace had accepted the invitation to utilise one of the three wildcards with the colt who won Saturday’s Group 1 Australian… Read More »
Converge has a start in the All-Star Mile if connections want it with Racing Victoria announcing on Sunday that the dual Group 1 winner was its preferred replacement runner for the injured Elephant. Co-trainers Emma-Lee and David Browne revealed on Sunday that Elephant was suffering from a bone chip injury and would… Read More »
Three decades after landing her first win as a trainer, Gai Waterhouse has celebrated another breakthrough victory, this time in the Randwick Guineas. Converge has given the trailblazing Waterhouse her first success in the three-year-old feature since it changed from the Canterbury to Randwick Guineas in 2006 and he has done… Read More »
Ciaron Maher and David Eustace have continued to turn training convention on its head with Hitotsu claiming the Australian Guineas first-up. During the spring Maher and Eustace had no hestitation jumping Hitotsu from the 1600m of the Caulfield Guineas to claim the Group 1 Victoria Derby over 2500m. Many thought that unconventional while no horse had returned… Read More »
A decision to change course and run Forbidden Love on a seven-day back-up in the Canterbury Stakes has yielded the ultimate reward for her connections and added an ironic twist to a career-milestone for jockey Hugh Bowman. Bowman landed a century of elite race wins when he captured The Metropolitan on… Read More »
Former Perth-trained mare Inspirational Girl has earned a start in the All-Star Mile with her last stride victory at Flemington. Having her third start in 15 months, Inspirational Girl claimed the Group 2 Blamey Stakes (1600m) on Saturday to give the Danny O’Brien-trained mare a start in the $5 million All-Star… Read More »
A bush sprinter has almost caused one of the biggest boilovers on a Sydney racetrack, splitting benchmark sprinters and archrivals Eduardo and Nature Strip in a four-horse Challenge Stakes that had it all. Shelby Sixtysix had won Highway Handicaps at his past two starts and was expected to be outclassed when he took… Read More »
Trainer Richard Litt sees more positives than negatives ahead of Profondo making his Melbourne debut in the Group 1 Australian Guineas at Flemington on Saturday. While he would have preferred to stay in Sydney and kick off Profondo’s campaign in the Group 1 Randwick Guineas (1600m), Litt says the decision… Read More »
It has taken several years, a tonne of perseverance and a team effort but at seven-years-old, Nature Strip is finally the complete package. Trainer Chris Waller has declared The Everest winner’s luckless first-up second to stablemate Home Affairs in the Black Caviar Lightning Stakes as arguably the gelding’s finest performance… Read More »
Cox Plate winning trainer Colin Little saw the writing on the wall that retirement was imminent when Caulfield closed as a training centre requiring a move to Pakenham. Having teamed with Matthew Lindsay in a partnership last year, Little was keen to continue dabbling in training as he had done over the previous 50… Read More »
Wild Ruler will not be progressing to any of the remaining Group 1 races this autumn after it was revealed on Wednesday morning that the son of Snitzel has been retired to stud. Racing New South Wales broke the news when it tweeted that the entire’s co-trainers, Peter and Paul Snowden,… Read More »
Outgoing Racing Victoria Chief Executive Giles Thompson says Victorian racing is in a healthy state after releasing figures of the first six months of the 2021-22 financial year. For the first time wagering burst through the $5 billion mark in the opening six months of the financial year, a rise… Read More »
Jacquinot will make his way to Sydney later this week with co-trainer Mick Price confirming the Blue Diamond Stakes third placegetter would run in the 2022 Golden Slipper. The son of Rubick ran a brave race when trapped wide in the Diamond, but beaten just over a neck behind Daumier, but… Read More »
Widden Stakes winner Queen Of The Ball will be nominated for next weekend’s Reisling Stakes but Sydney’s weather will determine if she lines up. The youngster scored a scintillating victory on a good surface in the Widden two starts ago but struggled in the soft conditions when fifth as favourite in… Read More »
Jockey Ben Allen has been rewarded for his dedication to hard work in stripping off the weight to record his first Group 1 win. Marabi gave the former leading apprentice his biggest victory when successful in the Oakleigh Plate (1100m) at Caulfield on Saturday. Allen has been aboard Marabi in six of her seven… Read More »
Six months after a horrific race fall that left him with a fractured neck, Brenton Avdulla has overcome his demons and made a remarkable comeback with a heart-warming Group 1 win aboard Hinged in the Surround Stakes at Randwick. It has been a rocky road back to the saddle for the top… Read More »
