The last time Riodini won a race, the COVID-19 pandemic was yet to sweep the world, but the former New Zealander has finally got an Australian success on the board, taking out the $1 million The Gong at Kembla Grange. The six-year-old had not saluted since December, 2019 when he claimed… Read More »
Backed into favouritism late, the punters were keen on Bankers Choice who looked well placed after running sixth, beaten 3.4 lengths by Zaaki in the Group 1 Champions Stakes (2000m) at Flemington last start. A Group 3 winner in New Zealand, Bankers Choice had run eight times in Australia and… Read More »
Apprentice Zac Lloyd has celebrated one of the most significant wins of his fledgling career with victory aboard Athelric in the $300,000 The Warra at Kembla Grange. One of the feature races on Saturday’s stand-alone Kembla program, The Warra attracted a handy field but it was the Godolphin four-year-old who… Read More »
A colt by Zoustar, he’d shown ability at the jump outs but didn’t show a lot of gate speed which was on show at Ballarat in the Magic Millions 2yo Classic, getting back to last in the field but unleashing a powerful last 600m to win softly on the line… Read More »
Racing can be a fickle game. The connections of Ain’Tnodeeldun looked to have a horse of the future after the then three-year-old completed a winning hat-trick with victory at Flemington during Melbourne Cup week. Move forward two years, and Ain’tnodeeldun will be lining up for just his sixth start since that November 2020 outing… Read More »
Fresh from taking out the first edition of the $2 million The Big Dance, Kris Lees has set his sights on another recently-inaugurated race with Rustic Steel. The five-year-old will go around one of the leading fancies in this Saturday’s fourth edition of the $1 million The Gong (1600m) at Kembla… Read More »
There was no shortage of connections who winced after drawing double-digit gates in Saturday’s Group 1 Railway Stakes (1600m) at Ascot, but Dan Morton wasn’t one of them. The man who trains favourite Alaskan God was content to see him allocated barrier 14, which will become 12 if the two emergencies drawn… Read More »
Five years on from Great Shot’s win in the Furphy-Railway Stakes (1600m), trainer Rhys Radford is hoping to cause a similar upset in this year’s edition of the famous Ascot mile. Rhys Radford has pinned his hopes on Comfort Me delivering him a second win in the Group 1 event, after the… Read More »
Good old Peter Moody … a salt of the earth, tell it like it is character if ever there was one … but, then again, there still remains a line you cross at your peril as Moody found to his cost when his comments regarding the performance in the saddle… Read More »
When his top-line galloper Think It Over tore a tendon earlier in the year, you would’ve been forgiven to believe that trainer Kerry Parker would be having a quieter time at this stage of the racing calendar. But his Dundeel mare Hope In Your Heart has taken over the reins and continues to… Read More »
He drew the car park in the Golden Eagle at Rosehill two weeks ago and never saw the fence, but Godolphin galloper Vilana ($4.80F) has bounced back to win the $1 million The Hunter at Newcastle. Given a peach of a steer by Nash Rawiller, the four-year-old entire proved too strong… Read More »
She’s been a work in progress for some time, but the Peter and Paul Snowden-trained Pierossa ($19) has put it all together to win the $200,000 Group 3 Spring Stakes at Newcastle. After settling midfield with cover during the run, jockey Sam Clipperton managed to pull her out to the centre of… Read More »
The hype around Brayden Star leading into the Cranbourne Shooting Star, a rare class 3 race worth $175,000 was justified as the lightly raced northern hemisphere three-year-old broke the 1500m track record with a comfortable … length win. Sent around a … favourite off the back of a 7.5 length win… Read More »
As soon as Fun Fact missed the start you only wanted to be on King Frankel ($3.30F) in The Beauford over 2300m at Newcastle. Apprentice hoop Tyler Schiller was handed an easy lead over the staying journey, and took full advantage to defeat Kukeracha ($6) by two and a half lengths with Gin Martini ($6)… Read More »
He will forever be remembered for his association with champion mare Winx, but jockey Hugh Bowman will aim to add even more feathers to his cap when he heads to Hong Kong for a riding sting this Sunday. Coming off a successful couple of weeks where he won the Group 1… Read More »
Things didn’t go to plan in the richest race Uncle Bryn has contested this spring, but the import’s trainers Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young are hoping to console themselves with victory in Saturday’s $500,000 Listed Cranbourne Cup (1600m). The son of Sea The Stars is backing up from last weekend’s $2… Read More »
Callsign Mav now has some stiff competition for Jamie Mott’s favourite horse of the spring, but he gets the chance to cement his position at Cranbourne this Saturday. The ex-Kiwi gelding will be reunited with Mott in the $500,000 Listed Cranbourne Cup (1600m), seven days after the popular jockey logged his… Read More »
Fresh off having two runners in this year’s $15 million The Everest, Warwick Farm-based trainer Bjorn Baker is targeting even more riches at the The Hunter meeting in Newcastle this weekend. Baker saddles up no less than six runners, with stable favourite Overpass engaged in the $1 million feature. The… Read More »
He’s a galloper that’s earned almost $3 million in earnings, and the Greg Hickman-prepared Eleven Eleven will be looking to add to that bank when he contests the $1 million The Hunter at Newcastle this Saturday. A winner of nine races including multiple at Listed level, the Fastnet Rock gelding has done… Read More »
Josh Julius isn’t complaining, but the abundant post-Melbourne Cup Week options now available have provided him with a dilemma as to what to do with his stable star Just Folk. The six-year-old was among the nominations for the Cranbourne Cup when entries for the $500,000 Listed event closed on Monday. But… Read More »
