The William Reid Stakes features five Group One winners but it is a sprinter still chasing an elite-level breakthrough who is the early favourite. Friday night’s weight-for-age William Reid (1200m) at Moonee Valley is Melbourne final Group One race for the season and three-year-old Star Turn is the $4.50 favourite… Read More »
Thirteen sprinters will run in the William Reid Stakes at Moonee Valley headed by last year’s winner Flamberge and Rebel Dane. The 1200m-race on Friday night is the last Group One race in Melbourne for the season. The Golden Slipper-winning combination of trainer Gary Portelli and jockey Ben Melham will… Read More »
A field of nine stayers will contest the $1.5 million BMW at Rosehill with the expected leader Lasqueti Spirit drawing the outside barrier for the 2400m-race. The Vinery Stud Stakes, the other Group One race on Saturday’s program, has attracted a field of 13 three-year-old fillies to run over 2000m… Read More »
Apprentice Matthew Poon will have nine rides at his first Hong Kong meeting as he embarks on the next stage of his career. Poon has been learning his trade with Richard Jolly in Adelaide and was last season’s champion apprentice in the South Australian capital. He received the call-up last… Read More »
The Mornington Cup is the likely next stop for Annus Mirabilis who is being aimed at the Adelaide and Sydney Cups double. The six-year-old won the Adelaide Cup over 3200 metres eight days ago and with the $2 million Sydney Cup over the same distance not until April 8, trainer… Read More »
David Brideoake believes there was a genuine excuse for Nurse Kitchen’s last-start failure and the Victorian trainer is now looking forward to testing the filly at Group One level for the first time. Brideoake is sending Nurse Kitchen to Sydney for Saturday’s Vinery Stud Stakes (2000m) for fillies at Rosehill…. Read More »
Racegoers at Rosehill can expect to see Brenton Avdulla repeat the tactics he used to win the VRC Oaks on Lasqueti Spirit when she runs in the BMW. Whether she can run away from hardened weight-for-age performers the same way she did against three-year-old fillies remains to be seen but… Read More »
Antonio Giuseppe will be redirected to the Doncaster Mile in preference to the Sydney Cup over twice the distance. Trainer Chris Waller said on Tuesday he did not believe the four-year-old, who was the Sportsbet’s $6 equal Sydney Cup favourite alongside Tavago, had had the right preparation for the 3200… Read More »
It could be a case of third time lucky for Big Memory in the $300,000 Mornington Cup. The Tony McEvoy-trained stayer has finished runner-up in the past two Mornington Cups, including his nose second to Berisha last year, and will be back for another crack at the 2400m race on… Read More »
Australian Derby winner Tavago returned to winning form at his most recent start and will get conditions to suit when he chases a second career Group One win in the BMW at Rosehill. Tavago powered to a 3-1/4 length win in last year’s Australian Derby, defeating subsequent Caulfield Cup winner… Read More »
The Golden Slipper-winning team of trainer Gary Portelli and jockey Ben Melham will be back in action at Moonee Valley trying for a second Group One victory within a week. Rebel Dane, the horse who sparked the association between the Warwick Farm based Portelli and Melbourne rider Melham, will run… Read More »
Hong Kong based superstar jockey Joao Moreira is expected to be the big attraction at several of the Brisbane winter carnival race days. The Brisbane Race Club hopes Moreira, regarded by many as the best jockey in the world, will be available for all five of its feature race meetings…. Read More »
Lightly raced mare Consommateur has delivered on a long-range plan in the Group Three Epona Stakes at Rosehill. Trainer Mick Kent, who is based at Cranbourne in Victoria, pinpointed Saturday’s 1900m race for fillies and mares as the target for Consommateur to chase black type and the last-start Sandown midweek… Read More »
Russian Revolution lived up to his name by rebelling when Golden Slipper Day dawned. And as the toey three-year-old colt prepared for his first race since October at Rosehill, a twisted hind plate added to trainer Paul Snowden’s anxieties Fortunately for Snowden, Russian Revolution made it to the outside barrier… Read More »
A $20,000 bargain buy has turned the $3.5 million Golden Slipper into a Cinderella story. She Will Reign made dreams come true in the world’s richest juvenile race on a day when superstar mare Winx celebrated her sweet 16th consecutive win. She Will Reign’s 19 average Australian owners include a… Read More »
Darren Weir ticked off his second milestone for the day when Palentino gave the trainer his 100th victory in Melbourne for the season in Saturday’s Blamey Stakes (1600m) at Flemington. Weir won his first Sydney race when Big Duke got the verdict on protest in the Group Three Manion Cup… Read More »
When German stayer Our Ivanhowe was acquired by Anthony and Lee Freedman after the Japan Cup in 2014, the Melbourne-based trainers were told they had inherited “the best wet tracker in the world”. And it has taken 14 starts in Australia to justify that billing as, for the first time… Read More »
Superstar mare Winx was not going to be denied her sweet 16th win in a row. The world’s best horse on turf had an easy victory in the $1 million Group One George Ryder Stakes at a soggy Rosehill racecourse on Saturday, winning by more than seven lengths before a… Read More »
We take a look at the big bets the online bookmakers have taken on the weekends horse racing around the country with most of the big money being placed at Flemington and Rosehill. Have Your Say: Which BIG BETS will be winning? Leave a comment below.
Riding on the crest of a wave, rising star jockey Regan Bayliss has added a Sydney stakes win on Golden Slipper day to his recent haul of feature victories. Bayliss guided three-year-old Derryn to a convincing win in Saturday’s Listed Darby Munro Stakes (1200m) at a rain-soaked Rosehill, with the… Read More »
