2016 Melbourne Cup favourite Jameka will have to carry 54.5 kilograms in the big race with weights to rise one kilogram in the absence of Preferment. Trainer Chris Waller says Preferment, who is topweight with 56.5kg, will not run and instead go the the Emirates Mackinnon over 2000 metres on… Read More »
Cox Plate favourite and defending champion Winx will be the star attraction at the Breakfast with the Best at Moonee Valley. Trainer Chris Waller has indicated the mare, chasing her 13th straight victory, will be an early worker at the track on Tuesday morning. Winx is scheduled to work between… Read More »
Trainer Mark Kavanagh admits he lied when he told his owners he bought a second mobile phone during the cobalt saga because his son refused to speak to him otherwise. But Kavanagh maintains he had nothing to hide in getting a new phone the day he learned of his cobalt… Read More »
Trainer Robbie Griffiths admits The Quarterback’s racing style is a negative heading to Moonee Valley but says the Newmarket Handicap winner could not be in better shape. The sprinter gave Griffiths his first Group One win in the Newmarket earlier this year and will bid to give him a second… Read More »
Eleonora has emerged as a genuine Oaks contender after winning the Group 3 Ethereal Stakes at Caulfield today. Ridden superbly by Damien Oliver, Eleonora was too good for her rivals in race 4, prompting online bookmaker sportsbet.com.au to bring her Oaks price in from $15 to $7.00. Tiamo Grace’s second placing… Read More »
Could Winx’s winning streak be coming to an end? Punters seem to think so with Hartnell’s odds to win the Cox Plate shortening. While Winx remains the short priced favourite at $2.10 there has been plenty of money to suggest Hartnell could turn the tables from their last meeting in the Warwick Stakes at… Read More »
Jameka’s impressive win in the Caulfield Cup has seen her odds slashed to complete the Caulfield and Melbourne Cup double. The now dual Group One winner smashed her rivals by 5 lengths in a breathtaking performance yesterday. Since winning the 2400m Caulfield Cup Jameka has moved in to the second… Read More »
David Hayes’ hopes of a second Melbourne Cup win have been boosted by the performance of Almoonqith in the Caulfield Cup. Hayes, who trained Jeune to win the 1994 Melbourne Cup, said Almoonqith’s fourth in Saturday’s Caulfield Cup (2400m) showed he was peaking at the right time for the Melbourne… Read More »
Yankee Rose has already done things against the norm in her short career and the next chapter will be to try to break a 40-year hoodoo in the country’s premier weight-for-age race. The last start Group One Spring Champion Stakes winner takes on champion mare Winx and a stellar line-up… Read More »
Robert Heathcote believes he may have too easy on Buffering before the Moir stakes and has stepped up the veteran sprinter’s workload. Buffering finished fifth in the Group One Moir Stakes at Moonee Valley on September 30, his first start since he was injured in the Chairman’s Sprint Prize at… Read More »
Jameka has made it a favourite’s Caulfield Cup, racing away to beat the internationals in the $3 million Group One race. Given a perfect ride from Nick Hall, Jameka, the $4.20 favourite, sprinted clear to beat Godolphin stayer Scottish ($7) with Exospheric ($15) finishing third. In a race of many… Read More »
Quality sprinter Our Boy Malachi has stormed home to win the Group Two Caulfield Sprint in the eight-year-old’s first start in Melbourne. The gelding, who began his career in Queensland, before joining the Hawkes Racing team in 2014, notched the 19th win of his career when he came from last… Read More »
He fell for Jameka the moment he saw her and now Ciaron Maher believes the mare can win him the Caulfield Cup-Melbourne Cup double. The favourite raced away to win Saturday’s $3 million Caulfield Cup and Maher is convinced she can repeat the feat in the 2016 Melbourne Cup. “There’s… Read More »
Group One winner First Seal has shown her class in her Melbourne debut, delivering a special win for her connections in the Group Two Tristarc Stakes at Caulfield. The John Thompson-trained mare stripped a fitter horse in Saturday’s 1400m race than when she loomed up in the straight before finishing… Read More »
James Cummings is keeping his options open with three-year-old Good Standing after an all-the-way win in the Caulfield Classic. Good Standing was the only horse lining up in Saturday’s $500,000 Group Three race for three-year-olds at Caulfield who was backing up after running in either the Caulfield Guineas or Thousand… Read More »
Cult horse The Cleaner has been officially retired following his disappointing run in the Coongy Cup at Caulfield today. The Cleaner will now reside at Living Legends after owners accepted the recommendation of new trainer Manny Gelagotis to retire him. Controversy surrounded the Tasmanian galloper when former trainer Mick Burles… Read More »
Sydney mare Palazzo Publicco has finished strongly to win the Alinghi Stakes at Caulfield in a race in which went ahead without the pre-post favourite Super Cash. The Matthew Smith-trained Palazzo Publicco ($31) was making her season return in Saturday’s Listed 1100m sprint for fillies and mares and she came… Read More »
A grandson of Octagonal has won a stakes race at Caulfield on the day the former Australian Horse of the Year died. Peacock, a son of Octagonal’s best son Lonhro, won the Listed Gothic Stakes on Saturday for Godolphin. Octagonal was euthanised at Woodlands Stud on Saturday following ill health…. Read More »
The Caulfield Carnival wraps up this Saturday with a monster ten race card, headlined by the showpiece event, the BMW Caulfield Cup (2400m). The weather is fine, the track is good (4) and the rail is out six metres for the entire circuit. [crownbetoffer] Race One (12:15) :… Read More »
We take a look at the big bets the online bookmakers have taken on each of the races on Caulfield Cup 2016 day. With a quality day of racing programmed for Caulfield there is no surprise punters have unleashed with numerous big bets on the card with the biggest bet being $12,000… Read More »
