Chris Waller is set to rely on God’s Window in his bid to win a second W J McKell Cup at Rosehill with stablemate Rotagilla all but certain to race in Queensland. The latter has remained in Brisbane since finishing third at Eagle Farm earlier this month and Waller’s assistant… Read More »
The Tattersalls Tiara is proving a battle of attrition and Grahame Begg has his fingers crossed for a safe week with his representative, Splash Back. The imported mare will chase a maiden Group 1 success in Saturday’s $700,000 event for fillies and mares at Eagle Farm. Splash Back was promoted… Read More »
Asfoora might not have secured the fairytale farewell from the Royal Ascot meeting at which she made her name, but trainer Henry Dwyer saw enough in last week’s King Charles III Stakes to extend her career. Whether she gets a crack at a fourth European Group 1 success, though, will… Read More »
Tom Charlton has a Group 1 winner heading to the feature race at Rosehill this Saturday, but it is a stablemate engaged in a support race could prove the stable’s best staying prospect. King Pedro will get out to 2400 metres for the first time this campaign in the $160,000… Read More »
Bright, shiny, dappled, and if you were able to list golden as a colour of a horse’s coat, Abounding looked just that when paraded at Robert Heathcote’s stable before the Stradbroke Handicap. That race, though, was not to be the one as the Group 1 Tattersall’s Tiara (1400m) at Eagle… Read More »
Biologics might have been beaten almost 10 lengths when second-last at her most recent outing, but it wasn’t a completely wasted run to Grahame Begg. It proved to the Cranbourne trainer that three-year-old daughter of I Am Invincible does not perform on Heavy tracks. The Pinecliff Racing-owned filly took no… Read More »
Jackson Radley capped a red-letter day for apprentices at Flemington on Saturday, especially those from Tasmania, when he partnered Seafall to victory in one of the day’s features. Radley continued his good association with the Ben, Will and JD Hayes-trained mare, guiding her to victory in the $150,000 The David Bourke (1620m)… Read More »
Royal Ascot one day, Royal Randwick the next. Globetrotting trainer Bjorn Baker has capped a memorable week by taking out Saturday’s Listed Civic Stakes (1400m) with up-and-coming gelding Midnight Dynamite. The victory came just days after Overpass finished a game third in the King Charles III Stakes at the famous English course… Read More »
Four years after becoming the first jockey to claim the Ipswich Cup as a trainer, Chris Munce had added another footnote – winning it in partnership with son Corey. Munce took out the Listed staying feature aboard Oompala in 1994, that horse going on to finish third to Jeune in the… Read More »
Ice Kool is still honing his race craft, but there is no doubting the emerging sprinter’s talent after he overcame his inexperience to post another promising win at Randwick. While the three-year-old continues to make his job harder by not anticipating the start and then wanting to get on with proceedings,… Read More »
Any win Ben Brisbourne achieves with Fontein Jewel is a special one, but the two-year-old’s win in the first race at Flemington on Saturday held particular significance. The Lucky Vega colt’s win in the $150,000 TAB We’re On Handicap (1420m) was the young English trainer’s first at the track since being granted… Read More »
Emerging filly Chains Of Love is in line for a return to black-type company after outclassing a more seasoned field of rivals to win the Highway Handicap at Randwick. The superbly bred daughter of I Am Invincible out of 2015 Group 1 Thousand Guineas winner Stay With Me is set to… Read More »
Bjorn Baker won’t be on track at Royal Randwick on Saturday but will bring a strong hand to the feature event, the Listed Civic Stakes over 1400m. Baker has been at Royal Ascot all week preparing stable star sprinter Overpass, who ran a gallant third in the Group 1 King Charles… Read More »
Racing and travel have brought out the best in Silver Wedding who will now look to add a Stakes race victory to her record. A winner of four of her 13 starts, the Ciaron Maher-trained mare runs in the Listed Gai Waterhouse Classic (1200m) at Ipswich on Saturday. A sister to Group… Read More »
Bow Echo may not have had it all his own way this time but his class shone through for a Royal Ascot victory in the St James’s Palace Stakes (1603m). A third group one win for jockey Billy Loughnane, Bow Echo ($1.83/5-6) followed up on the pair’s Group 1 2000… Read More »
There was just one thing more for Aidan O’Brien and Ryan Moore to complete at Royal Ascot and Mission Central was the horse the give the pair the full set of wins at the highest level at English racing’s showpiece. Moore, aboard Mission Central ($13/14-1), pounced late in a high-pressure… Read More »
There aren’t many better at taking a tried horse and improving them to greater heights than Joseph Pride, who has taken care of talented gelding Poison Chalice. The six-year-old by Savabeel was formerly prepared by Horsham-based trainer Paul Preusker, who was last seen running tenth in the Listed Ballarat Cup… Read More »
The Caulfield Cup has received a prize money boost in time for the 150th running of one of Australia’s historic races. The 2400m handicap to be run on October 17, will this year be worth $6 million with all 18 starters receiving a prize money cheque, with horses finishing outside the top… Read More »
De Bergerac is already safely in the field for next month’s Santa Ana Lane Series Final, but the gelding will use this Saturday’s final qualifier to round out preparations for the Listed event. The Grahame Begg-trained five-year-old will step out in the $150,000 open handicap over 1100 metres at Flemington…. Read More »
Grand Final Day as almost arrived for Asfoora and Henry Dwyer is tipping an improved performance from his globe-trotting mare in the King Charles III Stakes on Day 1 at Royal Ascot. The seven-year-old daughter of Flying Artie, who won the 1005-metre Group 1 sprint at Royal Ascot two years… Read More »
