Co-trainer Michael Freedman will continue to monitor track conditions but he is optimistic Golden Slipper winner Stay Inside will kick off his preparation at Kembla Grange. The surface was rated a heavy 9 on Thursday after rain earlier in the week and Freedman is keen to see it improve into the slow… Read More »
Phillip Stokes will allow the campaign of Instant Celebrity to unfold after the mare has her first-up run at Caulfield. Trainer Phillip Stokes has chosen the Group 3 Cockram Stakes (1200m) on Saturday to start Instant Celebrity in which may lead the mare to Sydney for the $2 million The Invitational (1400m) at Randwick in… Read More »
Champion mare Winx will visit Pierro in the upcoming breeding season. Having lost her first foal and being given a year off from breeding, Winx is set to visit Coolmore stallion Pierro in the upcoming breeding season. The ownership group of the four-time Cox Plate winning mare announced their decision in a statement on Wednesday. Winx, who strung… Read More »
Only one of the two high-class New Zealand mares trained by Jamie Richards will line up at Caulfield. Probabeel is set to run in the Group 3 Cockram Stakes (1200m) on Saturday while Avantage, also entered in the Cockram along with the Group 1 Memsie Stakes, is set to remain in New Zealand for the early weight-for-age… Read More »
Incentivise has had his first public outing since coming down from Queensland with a gallop between races at Pakenham. The Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup favourite is being trained for the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival by Peter Moody having won six of his nine start for Steve Tregea in Queensland. Incentivise leapt to the top of… Read More »
Australia’s leading bookmaker the TAB gives an overview of today’s betting markets from the feature races and race meetings from around the country. See which races punters cleaned up on and lost on. FUTURES UPDATE GOLDEN ROSE Swift Witness $101-$51 FLIGHT STAKES Swift Witness $11-$9 GEORGE MAIN STAKES Mo’unga $11-$9 (after… Read More »
Daniel Moor has been rewarded for his work with the Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young stable landing a stakes win at The Valley. The Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young-trained He’s Xceptional has scored a surprise first-up win at The Valley. Enjoying the fast pace in Saturday’s McKenzie Stakes (1200m), He’s Xceptional ran down… Read More »
Queensland Guineas winner Private Eye has signalled his spring carnival intentions with a powerhouse performance to claim the Group 3 Show County Quality at Randwick. The 1200m win took his record to seven victories from 10 starts and confirmed trainer Joe Pride’s plans to aim for some major spring targets. Pride… Read More »
Swift Witness has taken out the Silver Shadow Stakes but her victory has been overshadowed by a dramatic fall in the straight in which Xtremetime suffered a fatal injury. The fillies’ feature was a rough-house affair from the outset with horses jostling for positions in a moderately run race. It didn’t get… Read More »
The Anthony and Sam Freedman-trained Zouzarella has lived up to the pre-race hype with a narrow but impressive debut win at The Valley. The Zoustar filly was well-supported in early betting for the Roll The Dice Racing Plate (1200m) on the strength of an impressive barrier trial at Cranbourne on August 9. But come race day, Zouzarella was easy… Read More »
Splintex will head to the Show County Quality at Randwick on a mission to defend his undefeated record over the course and distance. Not only has the five-year-old displayed a liking for Randwick’s 1200 metre circuit but it has also been the scene of his two most significant victories in the… Read More »
Expectations have been high for Express Pass right from the time the Nick Ryan-trained galloper stepped out on the racecourse. While placed a couple of times in stakes company, Express Pass now gets the chance to notch a first success when he contests the Listed Carlyon Stakes (1000m) at The Valley on Saturday. Express Pass ran… Read More »
There will only ever be one Winx, but Verry Elleegant can go some way towards emulating her former stablemate when she chases back-to-back wins in the event named after the champion galloper. Winx won the race three years in succession from 2016 to 2018 and Verry Elleegant can add her name… Read More »
Michael Freedman feared a hefty handicap might bring Tiger Of Malay undone but instead it was an inside barrier that almost spoiled the horse’s winning return. Freedman admitted to pre-race reservations over the Group 2 winner shouldering topweight of 61kg in Saturday’s Up And Coming Stakes (1300m) and instructed jockey James Mcdonald to… Read More »
Trainer Peter Moody does not expect Gimmie Par to have a taxing spring despite her stylish first-up win at Caulfield. A close relation to the unbeaten champion sprinter Black Caviar and a half-sister to last year’s Caulfield Guineas winner Ole Kirk, Gimme Par landed her first stakes win in taking out the Group… Read More »
One of last season’s leading two-year-olds Ingratiating has made a triumphant return in his three-year-old year with an impressive victory at Caulfield. Having his first outing since finishing third in the Golden Slipper at Rosehill, Ingratiating came from last on the home turn to take out the Group 3 Vain Stakes (1100m) on… Read More »
It was a black and white result in The Agency Spring Preview as Frosty Rocks outclassed his opponents, but winning trainer Bjorn Baker was left seeing grey. Baker saddled up two runners, Frosty Rocks and Fun Fact who are both almost white in colour, and admitted he confused the two in the run…. Read More »
Racing NSW chief steward Marc Van Gestel had to double check the stop clock after King Of Sparta ran dazzling time to set a 1200 metre track record at Kembla Grange. On a course that was playing lightning quick, the three-year-old flew over the turf in 1m 07.89s, breaking the mark… Read More »
Streets Of Avalon will attempt to add to his enviable weight-for-age record at Caulfield when he runs in the P B Lawrence Stakes. But the Group 2 1400m contest, while a nice race to win, is a stepping stone to a bigger assignment two weeks later. Nichols would like to add the Memsie Stakes… Read More »
Having proven his worth as a two-year-old, General Beau will now try to show his class as a three-year-old when he steps out at Caulfield. General Beau stepped out in the first two-year-old race last season and contested Melbourne’s feature two-year-old, the Blue Diamond, and on Saturday runs in the first… Read More »
