As far as preparations go leading into a Group One race, trainer Mick Price could not be more pleased with Flying Artie. The three-year-old is the $4 favourite for Saturday’s Lightning Stakes (1000m) at Flemington and Price says the colt goes to the race in perfect order. Price also believes… Read More »
David Hayes believes all the signs suggest VRC Oaks runner-up Harlow Gold is in for a big autumn. That will be put to the test for the first time when the filly resumes in Saturday’s Group Three The Vanity (1400m) at Flemington on a path towards the ATC Australian Oaks… Read More »
Legless Veuve is following the same path towards the 2017 Australian Guineas as the most recent filly to win the Group One race and will be out to stamp her credentials at Flemington. The Stuart Webb-trained Legless Veuve beat the males first-up in the Manfred Stakes at Caulfield, emulating Mosheen… Read More »
It’s taken longer than expected to get Single Gaze back to the races following a mishap in the Australian Oaks but her trainer Nick Olive believes it has been worth the wait. Single Gaze will make her return as topweight in Saturday’s Group Two Millie Fox Stakes (1300m) at Rosehill…. Read More »
The Brisbane Race Club is to immortalise Queensland’s most successful Group One-trained horse Buffering with a statue at Eagle Farm racecourse. The statue will feature the sprinter in full flight with his regular rider Damian Browne aboard. It will be placed in the forecourt of the new pavilion building on… Read More »
Co-trainer Paul Snowden insists there is just as much at stake for Breeders’ Plate winner Khan as there will be for She Will Reign when the high-profile Golden Slipper candidates clash for the first time. Just as she does in pre-post betting on the Golden Slipper, She Will Reign holds… Read More »
Over the years, the Lightning Stakes has been a stallion making race with the honour roll boasting horses the calibre of General Nediym, Testa Rossa, Choisir, Fastnet Rock and Nicconi. Saturday’s Group One 1000m-sprint will be no different with five potential stallions lining up in the field of 13. One… Read More »
Golden Slipper 2017 second favourite Houtzen will miss the Randwick trials this week with trainer Toby Edmonds still undecided about her comeback run. The filly had 10 days in the paddock after winning the Magic Millions Classic on January 14 and has been back in Edmonds’ Gold Coast stable for… Read More »
A field of 13 will contest the Group One Lightning Stakes with favourite Flying Artie to jump from barrier four in the race down the Flemington straight. Terravista, beaten in the last stride by Chautauqua a year ago, has barrier nine on Saturday with Corey Brown to ride. Flying Artie… Read More »
Punters are as confident as her trainer She Will Reign can run a strong 1100 metres in the Silver Slipper at Rosehill. The ruling Golden Slipper favourite steps out beyond 1000 metres for the first time in Saturday’s Group Two race which shapes as a defining test. The Gary Portelli-trained… Read More »
After Malaguerra’s unplaced finish in the CF Orr Stakes, the dual Group One-winning sprinter will be freshened and aimed at the 2017 TJ Smith Stakes. Malaguerra resumed to win the Australia Stakes at Moonee Valley last month before finishing sixth as the $3.80 second favourite in Saturday’s Orr over 1400m… Read More »
Heavens Above is a Group One winner in waiting in more ways than one. The talented Tim Martin-trained mare begins a campaign aimed at the major Sydney carnival races in Saturday’s Millie Fox Stakes at Rosehill. Last year her autumn campaign ended with a second to Azkadellia in the Queen… Read More »
In an ominous warning for Flying Artie’s rivals, trainer Mick Price believes the Group One-winning colt has come of age since his unbeaten spring campaign. Flying Artie resumes in Saturday’s Group One Lightning Stakes at Flemington where he will be out to become the first three-year-old in more than a… Read More »
A colt Trent Busuttin hopes could deliver him and co-trainer Natalie Young another Derby will launch his autumn campaign in a mid-week race at Sandown. Busuttin and Young won last year’s Australian Derby with Tavago and a crack at the 2400m classic at Randwick in April is on the radar… Read More »
Three-year-olds Star Turn and Flying Artie head the early betting on the Group One Lightning Stakes at Flemington. Star Turn holds favouritism at $4.60 with Flying Artie the second pick at $4.80. The two are racing for the first time since meeting in the Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington last… Read More »
Group 2 winner Pearls has sadly passed away following her fall in Monday’s Triscay Stakes at Randwick. Pearls fell heading around the turn in the second last race on the rescheduled ten race card which resulted in her breaking her shoulder, following the race she was taken to the Randwick Equine… Read More »
If Australia’s champion racehorse Winx is beaten again, her trainer Chris Waller has narrowed it down to two ways it might happen. After Winx made a winning return before an after-work audience at Randwick on Monday, Waller all but ruled out bad luck ruining her spectacular streak. Should the unthinkable… Read More »
A decision to dodge Sydney’s weight-for-age stars with top three-year-old filly Global Glamour has been vindicated. Global Glamour was among the acceptances to take on Winx in the Apollo Stakes before co-trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott opted to contest the Light Fingers Stakes (1200m). But for the dual Group… Read More »
There are few horses in Gary Portelli’s stable who can match it for speed with She Will Reign so the trainer has called on stakes-winning sprinter Straturbo to test her in a gallop leading into the 2017 Silver Slipper Stakes. The filly is the Golden Slipper favourite but has to… Read More »
South Australian jockey Josh Cartwright has been suspended for 18 months over a ride at Morphettville that made national headlines. The 22-year-old, who was recently granted a dual licence, also had his training licence suspended for six months. Cartwright was stood down immediately after pleading guilty to a reckless charge… Read More »
