Former Group One winning jockey Gary Doughty has had his first metropolitan win as a trainer with Bold Warrior at Ipswich. Doughty retired from riding 18 years ago after suffering an eye injury in a fall. He has since been stable foreman for his wife Kelly Doughty but took out… Read More »
Trainer Symon Wilde will have a close look at the weather forecast before deciding if Inn Keeper runs in the All Victorian Sprint Series Final or waits for the . Inn Keeper has won seven of his nine starts and is unbeaten in four races this campaign, the most recent… Read More »
Jamie Mott has become the third jockey to reach 100 Victorian wins this season, bringing up the milestone at Geelong. Mott rode a double on Tuesday with the first of his winners for the day on three-year-old gelding Frankiedee in a maiden taking him to a century for the season…. Read More »
Danny Williams will again call on claiming apprentice Sam Weatherley to reduce She Knows’ weight when the filly returns to Randwick. The three-year-old has been given 61.5kg in Saturday’s Benchmark 80 over 1000 metres, a weight her trainer is not overly happy believing she is paying the price for her… Read More »
Another midweek race at Sandown is the next step for emerging stayer Hang Man who is a short-priced favourite to continue on his winning way in his first Australian preparation. The lightly raced Mike Moroney-trained import has three victories from his five starts in Australia, including his past two at… Read More »
Trainer Matthew Smith has no regrets about missing a stakes opportunity with Plymouth Road believing the gelding has plenty of time to get to that level. After his dominant win over 2400 metres at Randwick on June 23, connections were tempted to back up in Saturday’s Listed Winter Cup at… Read More »
All eyes will be on exciting sprinter Nature Strip when he heads to Flemington for the Listed A R Creswick Series Final. Nature Strip toyed with his rivals in a handicap for three-year-olds over 1100m at Flemington last Saturday week, in near course record time, at his first start since… Read More »
Reigning Melbourne Cup winner Rekindling and runner-up Johannes Vermeer are unlikely to line up in Australia’s most famous race this year. Lloyd Williams won a record sixth Melbourne Cup as an owner last November when the Joseph O’Brien-trained Rekindling defeated the Aidan O’Brien-trained Johannes Vermeer at Flemington. Both Rekindling and… Read More »
David Payne will set emerging stayer Toulouse on a path to emulate his elder stablemate Ace High, winner of the Spring Champion Stakes and Victoria Derby. Toulouse claimed his second win of the winter at Rosehill on Saturday when he dead-heated with Dio D’Oro in the two-year-old handicap. He will… Read More »
Trainer Dan McCarthy is keen to stretch Ashlor out to 1400 metres with a view to giving the talented sprinter a crack at Melbourne’s first Group One race of the upcoming season. Ashlor lumped 63kg to a convincing win in a 1200m benchmark-84 race at Caulfield on Saturday to register… Read More »
Classy Victorian mare Jamaican Rain took the first step to Group One races during the Melbourne spring when she won the Listed Glasshouse Handicap at Caloundra. Trainer Richard Laming had hoped to run Jamaican Rain in the Group One Tatt’s Tiara last week but she failed to make the field…. Read More »
Wins to stablemates Al Passem and Wenner have made it a day to remember for trainer Ken Keys at Caulfield. After three-year-old Al Passem produced a gutsy display to win the Keno Replay Handicap (1400m), four-year-old Wenner also fought gamely in the straight to narrowly take out the Keno Superplay… Read More »
Multiple Group One-winning trainer Nigel Tiley produced a top performance to get his first Australian win when Megablast won the Listed Caloundra Cup on Saturday. And jockey Damian Browne put a tumultuous week behind him to guide Megablast ($3.60) to a three lengths win over First Crush ($10) with three-quarters… Read More »
Promising New Zealand three-year-old The Bostonian showed the decision to stay in Queensland after some early setbacks was the right one when he won his second stakes race for the winter at the Sunshine Coast. Given the run of the race by jockey Michael Cahill, The Bostonian, the $2.60 favourite,… Read More »
A solid pace over a distance short of his best has been the catalyst for Liapari’s return to the winner’s circle in the Civic Stakes at Rosehill. One of four runners for premier Sydney trainer Chris Waller in Saturday’s 1350m Listed race, Liapari was the longest priced of the quartet… Read More »
Darren Weir has broken his own training record for Victorian metropolitan winners in a season with a month to spare. Victory to imported stayer Pacodali in Saturday’s Keno Bonus Handicap (1800m) at Caulfield brought up the milestone for Weir – the trainer’s 138th metropolitan winner in Victoria for 2017-18 to… Read More »
Almost 18 months after his last win, Harper’s Choice has ended up on the right side of ledger with victory in the Listed Winter Cup at Rosehill. His campaigns between wins have been frustrating for the Gerald Ryan stable, exacerbated by his second to Jon Snow in the 2017 Australian… Read More »
The judge has found it impossible to split two-year-olds Dio D’Oro and Toulouse at Rosehill but the pair will head in different paths in the new season. The Gary Portelli-trained Dio D’Oro ($5.50) and Toulouse ($2.80) hit the line together in Saturday’s 1400m race after the former seemed to get… Read More »
Shin soreness prevented Tony Nicconi from racing earlier in his juvenile season but the colt has shown his class with a dominant victory at Caulfield on debut. Tony Nicconi ($4.80) stepped out in Saturday’s Keno Let’s Play Handicap (1200m) for two-year-olds and cruised across from the outside barrier to sit… Read More »
A change of luck could see promising three-year-old Bluebrook headed to Grafton for the Guineas next month. Starting favourite, Bluebrook ($2.30) was too strong at the finish scoring by three-quarters of a length to Bon Rocket ($13) in the Istyle TV Handicap (1400m) at Caloundra. The gelding had been unlucky… Read More »
