Buffering is on the verge of being named Queensland’s Horse of the Year for an unprecedented fifth time. The star sprinter won three Group One races last season highlighted by the Al Quoz Sprint in Dubai in March. He was injured in the Chairman’s Sprint Prize in Hong Kong won… Read More »
The new racing season is barely a week old and already Darren Weir is notching up the winners. The premier Melbourne trainer’s five-winner haul on Saturday was his best in the metropolitan area. Weir also claimed the day’s feature, the Group Three Aurie’s Star Handicap with Sooboog before notching another… Read More »
Ciaron Maher will kick off the spring campaigns of two of the stable’s quality mares in a stakes race at Caulfield. Set Square and Jameka, winners of the past two VRC Oaks, are to resume in the Group Two P B Lawrence Stakes (1400m) on Saturday. The pair took a… Read More »
Golden Slipper winner Capitalist is favoured to return to the track a winner in the Group Three San Domenico Stakes. The prized colt is rated a $1.60 chance in the TAB’s early market for the San Domenico at Rosehill on Saturday. Trainers Peter and Paul Snowden have had to delay… Read More »
Lindsay Park will rely on one its greybeards in a black-type race at Caulfield. Nine-year-old Jacquinot Bay will be the stable’s sole representative in the Group Two P B Lawrence Stakes on Saturday. Lindsay Park, which now comprises trainers David Hayes, his son Ben and nephew Tom Dabernig, began the… Read More »
Lankan Rupee is back in Mick Price’s Caulfield stable with the trainer hoping he can make a late spring return. The 2013/14 Horse of the Year and the former highest ranked sprinter in the world, the seven-year-old hasn’t raced since finishing third behind Alpha Miss in the Group Two Schillaci… Read More »
A meeting during the week will determine the spring starting point for Alpine Eagle. The five-year-old has been gearing up for a spring return in Melbourne and trainer Tony McEvoy plans to meet owner Wolf Blass to discuss options. McEvoy said Alpine Eagle galloped beautifully at Flemington on Saturday morning… Read More »
Chris Waller is looking to Randwick to dry out before confirming whether Winx makes another appearance in a barrier trial. But if she doesn’t step out on the Kensington track on Tuesday, the trainer is not concerned with the champion mare on target for her return in the Warwick Stakes… Read More »
Darren Weir has started the new racing season in a blaze of glory, training a career-best five winners at one racetrack. The opening city meeting of the new season at Flemington belonged to Weir who also captured the main race on Saturday’s card, the Group Three Aurie’s Star Handicap with… Read More »
The benefits of Lindsay Park’s stable in Adelaide has shone through at Flemington with a winning double. Shaf, winner of the Jockey Celebration Day Handicap, joined earlier winner Zunbaqa for David Hayes, his son Ben and Tom Dabernig, after a successful campaign in Adelaide. Ben Hayes was dispatched to Adelaide… Read More »
Brilliant mare Hidden Pearl is on course for a second chance at winning an interstate stakes race after her scintillating comeback win at Eagle Farm. Trainer Barry Lockwood spent five months plotting Hidden Pearl’s return and his hard work paid off when she beat Pienkna ($7.50) by 4-1/2 lengths in… Read More »
There is no stopping Darren Weir. After notching a Commonwealth training record of 348 winners last season of which 106 came in Melbourne, Weir saddled a treble in consecutive races when Ulmann took out the VRC Member Daniel Mahar Handicap at Flemington on Saturday. Ulmann’s win followed victories from Killarney… Read More »
New stable recruit Tycoon Tara has given Peter and Paul Snowden victory in the first Group race of the Sydney season in the absence of her star stablemate Capitalist. The Snowdens opted not to run the Golden Slipper winner in Saturday’s Group Two Missile Stakes (1200m) because of the heavy… Read More »
Zunbaqa has extended her winning sequence to four and provided Ben Hayes with his first Flemington winner. Hayes joined his father David and cousin Tom Dabernig at the start of the season in a training partnership with Lindsay Park. In charge of stables in Adelaide and in Sydney during carnivals,… Read More »
Kim Craft’s decision not to rush Beloso has continued to pay dividends with an impressive win at Eagle Farm. Craft bought Beloso for $35,000 at the 2015 Gold Coast sales and formed a syndicate of women owners to chase the female bonus in the Magic Millions 2YO Classic. However, Beloso… Read More »
The decision to chase wet weather has paid off handsomely for connections of Victorian mare Birds Of Tokyo. A late nomination for the first race on the Randwick program, Birds Of Tokyo handled the heavy track with ease to win the Benchmark 78 (1800m) by 6-1/4 lengths. A last-start winner… Read More »
We take a look at the big bets the online bookmakers have taken on the weekends horse racing around the country with the big money being placed at Flemington, Eagle Farm, Belmont, Morphettville and Randwick.
Gary Portelli knows he is saddling up the best horse in the Missile Stakes but admits he is clueless about tactics. The field for Saturday’s Group Two 1200m-sprint has been reduced to five with the scratchings of Golden Slipper winner Capitalist and Group One-placed Generalife because of the heavy track…. Read More »
A horrific fall tore her liver and split her pancreas in two, but Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Michelle Payne says she still has the fire in her belly to ride in one more spring carnival. Payne suffered life-threatening injuries when she was thrown off her mount Dutch Courage and dragged along… Read More »
Predictions of a heavy Randwick track could thrust Mediterranean into the limelight ahead of his Golden Slipper-winning stablemate Capitalist. While co-trainer Peter Snowden has some trepidation about starting Capitalist on a wet track in the Missile Stakes on Saturday, he holds no such fears about running Mediterranean in the Listed… Read More »
