Co-trainer Adrian Bott expects to know if Tulloch Lodge has a gilt-edged Golden Rose chance when Dawn Passage contests a traditional lead-up race at Rosehill. Rated among the best of Bott and Gai Waterhouse’s team of three-year-olds, Dawn Passage takes on seven rivals in the Group Two Run To The… Read More »
Armed with an irresistible form line, Caulfield Guineas favourite Dalasan is set for his first Melbourne appearance of the season in the Group Two Danehill Stakes at Flemington. The colt, winner of three of his four starts, runs for the first time in four weeks in Saturday’s 1200m straight-track sprint… Read More »
The Makybe Diva Stakes at Flemington is an important race in the spring plans for Cox Plate favourite Mystic Journey but her trainer Adam Trinder is confident the star mare is again ready for the challenge. Mystic Journey is the $2.20 favourite to stretch her unbeaten sequence to eight races… Read More »
David Hayes says it has always been his intention to return to Hong Kong to train and he is grasping the opportunity. The champion trainer announced on Tuesday he was to take up a contract next year after leaving in 2005 because of family reasons. He came back to Australia… Read More »
Warrnambool trainer Matthew Williams is confident Gailo Chop has retained his ability and zest for racing. But he suspects the nine-year-old will still be lacking the necessary match fitness to challenge the favourites in his return from a lengthy injury lay-off in the Makybe Diva Stakes. Gailo Chop is scheduled… Read More »
Kathy O’Hara has appealed a hefty suspension for frequent use of her mobile phone in the jockeys’ room with the penalty to rule her out of the spring carnival and the Cups ride on Grey Lion. Racing NSW stewards took a hard line with O’Hara at Tuesday’s inquiry, suspending her… Read More »
Kerrin McEvoy has been locked in as Redzel’s rider for an attempt at an Everest three-peat. In one of the most anticipated jockey moves of the spring, McEvoy has selected Redzel as his Everest mount over emerging younger sprinter Classique Legend. Syndicator Triple Crown confirmed McEvoy would ride Redzel, winner… Read More »
A race on this weekend’s Makybe Diva Stakes program at Flemington will be named in honour of former trainer Russell Cameron, who has died aged 61. Cameron died on Tuesday, having relinquished his trainer’s licence last season because of the effects of Alzheimer’s Disease. A third-generation trainer, Cameron was first… Read More »
The Aidan O’Brien-trained Kew Gardens has been given top weight of 58kg in the 2019 Melbourne Cup. Last year’s Melbourne Cup winner Cross Counter will have to carry an extra 6.5kg if he is to repeat last year’s feat. He sits second in the weights at 57.5kg along with the… Read More »
Progressive sprinter Classique Legend and veteran Happy Clapper have starred in barrier trials at Randwick. Ridden by Kerrin McEvoy, The Everest contender Classique Legend circled the filed nearing the turn in his 1000m-heat on the course proper on Tuesday and comfortably beat Home of The Brave by 2-1/4 lengths. Carmel… Read More »
Perth trainer Lindsey Smith says if he had a little more courage he would have started Scales Of Justice in the Feehan Stakes at The Valley. Victory in that race would have assured Scales Of Justice a start in next month’s Cox Plate along with the opportunity for a $1… Read More »
Tasmanian trainer Scott Brunton has abandoned plans to tackle a Group One handicap in Melbourne with The Inevitable. Saturday’s impressive winner at The Valley has returned to Brunton’s training complex at Seven Mile Beach in Tasmania to recover and prepare for his next assignment. The Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes at… Read More »
Queensland Horse of The Year contender Tyzone is ready to take his first steps towards a Melbourne campaign when he runs in a Gold Coast barrier trial. Tyzone has been one of the most consistent horses in Queensland, winning 16 of his 32 starts for more than $900,000 prize money…. Read More »
Lindsay Park has yet to win the Makybe Diva Stakes since its elevation to Group One status and the presence of Mystic Journey at Flemington has the stable doubting that will change this year. The Makybe Diva, over 1600m at Flemington on Saturday, gained its Group One grading in 2013… Read More »
Godolphin has yet to name its Everest contender but last year’s surprise placegetter Osborne Bulls has shown he is ready to put his credentials to the test. Osborne Bulls and stablemate Home Of The Brave worked together between races at Randwick on Saturday, pleasing trainer James Cummings. Both could resume… Read More »
Group One winner Princess Jenni is set to launch her spring campaign in the Let’s Elope Stakes at Flemington. The winner of four of her seven starts, Princess Jenni took out the Group One Australasian Oaks (2000m) in Adelaide in May and resumes on Saturday in the Group Two 1400m… Read More »
Homesman has won a golden ticket into the Cox Plate courtesy of a comprehensive win in the Feehan Stakes at The Valley. The winner of Saturday’s Group Two race bypasses the ballot into next month’s $5 million Cox Plate at The Valley. Placed second in the weight-for-age race 12 months… Read More »
Nash Rawiller’s resurgence in the riding ranks has gone to the next level at Randwick with the jockey landing four winners and his first at Group level since his return from a lengthy ban. Rawiller, who spent 15 months in the wilderness serving a ban imposed by Hong Kong stewards… Read More »
For the second year in a row, proven fresh performer Faatinah has struck first-up at The Valley coming off an international campaign in Dubai. After a three-run preparation in Dubai early in 2018 the gelding returned home to Australia and started his spring preparation in late August last year with… Read More »
Tim Clark has declared Samadoubt the latest benchmark of weight-for-age racing in Sydney after the bold frontrunner annihilated his Chelmsford Stakes rivals to maintain his unbeaten record this campaign. Like he did first-up in the Group One Winx Stakes, Samadoubt ($10) found the lead and Clark clicked him up a… Read More »
