Rosehill Guineas winner Gingernuts will not run in the Caulfield Cup with his schedule interrupted when a vital lead-up race in New Zealand was cancelled. He was to run in Saturday’s Group One Livamol Classic at Hastings but the meeting was called off after five races amid safety concerns on… Read More »
Two horses from the Irish stable of master trainer Aidan O’Brien are set to make their first Australian spring carnival appearances in the Group One Caulfield Stakes. Taj Mahal and Johannes Vermeer arrived at the Werribee quarantine centre eight days ago and are both scheduled to contest Saturday’s 2000m Caulfield… Read More »
Having watched Humidor get trounced by Winx in the Turnbull Stakes, trainer Darren Weir will test the horse in blinkers at trackwork before deciding if he wears them in the $3 million Caulfield Cup. Humidor won the Group One Makybe Diva Stakes the start before Saturday’s Turnbull but he was… Read More »
Ben Currie has set a Queensland record by training six winners and a second on the seven-event TAB Toowoomba card. Currie’s winners on Saturday evening were Island Sunset, Mishani Rainman, Amanat, Hot Talk, Apoloboom, and High Africane and his second was with Mishani La Scala. It was the second time… Read More »
Bring Me Roses has broken her maiden in style and raced into VRC Oaks favouritism with victory in the Group Two Edward Manifold Stakes at Flemington. The Tony McEvoy-trained Bring Me Roses was having her fourth career start in Saturday’s 1600m race for fillies and stormed home from the second… Read More »
The Darren Weir-trained Amelie’s Star has earned a ticket into the $6 million Melbourne Cup with victory in the Group Three Bart Cummings at Flemington. Saturday’s 2500m race carried with it a ballot exemption into the 2017 Melbourne Cup for the winner and Amelie’s Star ($4.60) strode to a two-length… Read More »
Ron Quinton was thankful he could savour training another feature-race quinella after stable stars Dixie Blossoms and Daysee Doom fought out the Angst Stakes. Quinton fronted a Racing NSW stewards inquiry during the week over cobalt irregularities but escaped penalty. His relief was obvious as Dixie Blossoms reversed the result… Read More »
A star NZ galloper is now in doubt for the Caulfield Cup after rain at Hastings caused the Livamol Classic race day to be called off midway through the program. Gingernuts is unlikely to contest the Caulfield Cup with the key runner missing a run after the biggest meeting on… Read More »
Champion mare Winx has a third Cox Plate at her mercy after giving her rivals a galloping lesson in the Turnbull Stakes at Flemington. Having her first start at Flemington, and just her fourth in Melbourne, Winx recorded her 21st consecutive victory as she raced away to one of the… Read More »
Viridine matched the best piece of trackwork in James Cummings’s short time at Godolphin with an unextended win in the Roman Consul Stakes at Randwick. “I watched him on Tuesday and in three months training (at Godolphin) I haven’t seen a horse work better than that,” Cummings said. Making it… Read More »
Three-year-old Ace High has confirmed his rating as a stayer of promise with a front-running win in the Group One Spring Champion Stakes. In a replica of his Gloaming Stakes win, the David Payne-trained colt made his own tempo under Tye Angland before holding off Tangled with Sully taking the… Read More »
A head-bobbing finish to the Group Two Gilgai Stakes at Flemington has gone the way of Keen Array to snap a year-long absence from the winner’s circle for the sprinter. Keen Array ($8) had not won since October last year but continued to rally after sitting on the pace in… Read More »
Main Stage has leapt to the top of Victoria Derby betting after his last-to-first victory at Flemington. The Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young-trained three-year-old shortened from $10 to $6 following his win in the Listed UCI Stakes (1800m) on Saturday. Ridden by Michael Walker, Main Stage ($8.50) scored by a… Read More »
Three-year-old Snitzepeg has proven champion Victorian trainer Darren Weir wrong with a Listed race win at Flemington. Weir admitted he had considered whether or not to scratch Snitzepeg from Saturday’s Listed Antler Luggage Stakes (1400m) against the colt’s own age but the three-year-old rose to the challenge to snare his… Read More »
Tye Angland has made sure there was no room for error aboard Interlocuter at Randwick with the Godolphin horse avenging his last-start loss on protest. Interlocuter was demoted to second at Rosehill last month when Brenton Avdulla on Wayanka successfully arguing his running was taken in the straight. On Saturday,… Read More »
For the second year running, Lindsay Park has claimed the season-opener for two-year-olds in Melbourne with Nomothaj prevailing at Flemington. The Shadwell Stud-owned filly on Saturday won the Listed Maribyrnong Trial Stakes (1000m) – 12 months after stablemate Madeenaty was successful. Ridden by Stephen Baster, Nonothaj was backed from $5.50… Read More »
In two-and-a-half years of training Chris Munce has stamped himself as a top juvenile conditioner, confirmed once again when Pony Power won at the Gold Coast on Saturday. Backed from $4.80 into $3.80, Pony Power finished too strongly to beat Lady McCabe ($17) by a head with a short neck… Read More »
Trainer John Zielke admitted he was staggered when his two-year-old You Know The One scored an upset win at the Gold Coast on Saturday. You Know The One ($20) hugged the rail to beat Brinkmanship ($3.10) by two lengths. Zielke’s other runner, the hot favourite Rains Aplenty ($1.55), finished a… Read More »
The Turnbull Stakes (2000m) at Flemington this Saturday looks a two horse race between Humidor and Winx, but there are a few brave Sportsbet.com.au punters who think we could have a Steven Bradbury type race. Skyfire, a 61 rater contesting a time honoured Group l, who is being set for… Read More »
Flemington will get to experience the champion mare Winx for the first and perhaps only time this Saturday in the Group l Turnbull Stakes (2000m) and her clash with Humidor highlights a fab card at headquarters. The weather is fine, the track is good (4) and the rail is out… Read More »
