Top trainer Mick Price has a great chance to claim his second Blue Diamond Stakes with Flying Artie. Flying Artie showed he was on track to repeat Samaready’s 2012 feat when he won the Prelude at Caulfield last Saturday. Online bookmaker sportsbet.com.au was hit with plenty of support for Flying… Read More »
Stakes-winning galloper Rudy is headed to Sydney after an impressive barrier trial win but is no certainty to contest the Group One Doncaster Mile for the second time. Trainer Helen Page said she was more likely to aim Rudy at the Group Three JRA Plate (2000m), run two weeks after… Read More »
Godolphin star Exosphere has opened favourite for his first foray against older horses on Saturday. Online bookmaker sportsbet.com.au has posted the three-year-old as $2.25 favourite for the Lightning Stakes. The Team Hawkes trained five-year-old Chautauqua is second pick at $3.20 for the Flemington Group 1. At Randwick, smart colt Press… Read More »
Chautauqua heads a strong list of entries for the Black Caviar Lightning Stakes at Flemington, named in honour of the unbeaten champion. Australia’s equal highest-rated galloper on the World Thoroughbred Rankings in 2015 with Lankan Rupee and Winx, Chautauqua is among 15 nominations for the 1000m-Group One dash on Saturday…. Read More »
The results of tests on high quality stayer Signoff will determine the immediate racing future of the gelding. Signoff, fourth in the 2014 Melbourne Cup, is one of a group of horses returning erratic results to Ibuprofen months after being treated with the anti-inflammatory drug at a Victorian property as… Read More »
Champion jockey Damien Oliver has made a surprise choice in which horse he will ride in the 2016 Blue Diamond Stakes. Damien Oliver has chosen to ride Flying Artie over Blue Diamond favourite Extreme Choice. Extreme Choice is the current $2.75 favourite with Sportsbet.com.au whilst Flying Artie sits on the… Read More »
Catkins will never reach the heights of her Cox Plate-winning stablemate Winx but she still holds her own in the popularity stakes in the Chris Waller yard. On the same day Winx made a winning return in the Apollo Stakes at Randwick, striking grey Catkins had a race day work-out… Read More »
Suavito has returned from injury to upstage a star-studded field in the CF Orr Stakes, providing jockey Luke Currie with his first Group One win in more than a decade. The Nigel Blackiston-trained mare missed the spring after having a bone chip removed from a knee but her return was… Read More »
If winning the Cox Plate with Winx was nerve-racking for trainer Chris Waller, her return in the Group Two Apollo Stakes was even more so. But with the coolest, calmest jockey in charge at Randwick on Saturday the mare toyed with her rivals as she strolled to a one-length win… Read More »
Katelyn Mallyon has claimed the biggest win of her career aboard Heatherly in the Group Two Rubiton Stakes. And she is hoping to have the chance at an even richer prize aboard the filly later this month. Mallyon, a two-time winner of the Melbourne apprentices’ premiership, only recently became a… Read More »
The aptly named Big Money is the biggest earner in Rod Northam’s Scone stable but it’s taken longer than the trainer hoped for him to win a race in Sydney. Most of Big Money’s $621,000 plus has come from Brisbane where he has won three stakes races. The six-year-old ran… Read More »
Risque has edged her way up the Lindsay Park pecking order with an Australian debut victory at Caulfield. A winner of three races from six starts in New Zealand, including the 1000 Guineas at Riccarton, Risque looked all class with her win in the Kevin Hayes Stakes on Saturday. Now… Read More »
A few days ago trainer Gerald Ryan asked Perignon’s owner Damion Flower to come to his stable to check the filly. On Saturday Flower was front and centre when Perignon swooped from midfield to claim the Group Two Light Fingers Stakes (1200m) as a $9 chance. “Gerald rang me and… 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 Caulfield, Randwick and Doomben.
Lindsay Park is the latest rival stable to acknowledge the aura of invincibility that surrounds Winx ahead of her return to racing in the Apollo Stakes. Imported galloper Dibayani will step out for his second campaign under co-trainers David Hayes and Tom Dabernig with renewed hope about his long-term Australian… Read More »
Jockey Brad Rawiller will be out to continue an unbeaten run on Mahuta when the colt attempts to extend his own winning streak to six in the Group Two Autumn Stakes. Mahuta has won five successive races since trainer Darren Weir put blinkers on the colt before his third start… Read More »
Punters at Caulfield haven’t been so polite to bookies heavily backing a runner to win the Rubiton Stakes. G1 winner Politeness opened at $4.40 with Sportsbet.com.au before punters stepped in and smashed her quote into her current price of $3.90 with a majority of the money on the race coming… Read More »
Simon Zahra admits his confidence in Sword Of Light ahead of the Blue Diamond Prelude has been dealt a blow by the barrier draw. Zahra, who trains in partnership with Mathew Ellerton, says the filly could not be in better shape ahead of her Group Two assignment at Caulfield on… Read More »
He has been up for a long time, but Moral Victory has been the best backed runner at odds to take out the first leg of the Quaddie at Randwick this Saturday, the Gifts.com.au Handicap (1600m). The Tim Martin trained galloper ran over 2000m here on January 30 and ran… Read More »
Chris Waller concedes he is training Winx with an added sense of responsibility as the Cox Plate winner returns to racing as an overwhelming Apollo Stakes favourite. Winx has taken over as Australia’s best racehorse and also ranks as the nation’s most popular. And it’s not lost on Waller that… Read More »
