Early money has continued to flow for New Zealand galloper Turn Me Loose ahead of his first-up run in the CF Orr Stakes. Since the barrier draw for the Group One race at Caulfield on Saturday, Turn Me Loose has shortened from $6 to $4.80 and is challenging Lucky Hussler… Read More »
Saturday’s Autumn Stakes at Caulfield racecourse has turned out to be a strong betting race with punters heavily backing two runners with speck money also coming for runners at long odds. Mahuta has been the best backed runner in the race with the colts odds turning in from $3.40 to his current… Read More »
The father-and-son training combination of Leon and Troy Corstens have succeeded in part one of a long range plan with talented galloper Awesome Rock. The pair’s first aim was to start his campaign off in top weight-for-age company after he missed a number of starts during the spring when down… Read More »
The Blue Diamond Preview didn’t go to script for Power Trip and trainer John McArdle is hoping it’s a different story in the Prelude. Power Trip won the Maribyrnong Plate on debut last spring before finishing fourth on his return in the Blue Diamond colts and geldings Preview last month…. Read More »
Mick Price is taking a big-picture approach in starting Tarzino’s autumn campaign against the Victoria Derby winner’s own age. Tarzino is nominated for Saturday’s Group One CF Orr Stakes at Caulfield but Price said the colt would make his return in the Group Two Autumn Stakes over the same distance…. Read More »
Not even one of the better track gallops of Gust Of Wind’s life can convince trainer John Sargent his stable star will be a proper Apollo Stakes rival for headline mare Winx. In a workout designed to ensure Gust Of Wind isn’t giving away too much on the score of… Read More »
Cox Plate winner Winx is a confirmed runner in the Apollo Stakes and bookmakers have already made the glamour mare of Australian racing an overwhelming favourite to win the weight-for-age race. Trainer Chris Waller made the decision to start Winx’s much-anticipated autumn campaign at Randwick on Saturday after the mare… Read More »
Star stayer Amralah who won the Herbert Power Stakes before being a late scratching for the Melbourne Cup as a $12 shot will miss the Autumn after suffering a set back. Owner Lloyd Williams says the classy Amralah has suffered a setback and won't race at all this Autumn Carnival…. Read More »
Co-trainer Peter Snowden has announced Pride of Dubai has been retire after suffering exactly the same injury as last time. Bruising to hind fetlock found again in examinations yesterday and today. Pride of Dubai won the G1 Blue Diamond Stakes and G1 Sires Produce Stakes as a 2YO. Update: Stablemate… Read More »
Chris Waller boasts more Group One winners in his stable than any other trainer in Australia and several will step out in two states this week. Cox Plate winner Winx is scheduled to make her reappearance in Saturday’s Group Two Apollo Stakes at Randwick alongside Grand Marshal and Who Shot… Read More »
Jason Warren is looking at Group One options for his impressive first-up Caulfield winner Puritan. But whether Saturday’s Group Three Manfred Stakes winner is stepped up in distance for the Australian Guineas or kept to sprinting for a tilt at the Newmarket Handicap is still to be decided. “We’re going… Read More »
Shakespearean Lass has brought up a family double at Caulfield with a black-type win in the Listed WJ Adams Stakes. The four-year-old mare’s hard-fought victory in Saturday’s 1000m sprint came 30 minutes after her older half-brother Dan Zephyr landed his second-straight city win in the John Moule Handicap. Both horses… Read More »
If his X-rays are to be believed, Spill The Beans should not be racing let alone beating a quality field in a Group Three race. Rejected twice by Hong Kong, Spill The Beans stayed with his breeder John Messara who sent him to Rosehill trainer Gerald Ryan. On Saturday, the… Read More »
Valliano has had his odds trimmed for the Blue Diamond Stakes after an impressive first-up win at Caulfield. The David Hayes and Tom Dabernig trained two-year-old firmed from $51 to $21 for the two-year-old feature following his dominant performance in the Inglis Premier on Saturday. Having his first run following… Read More »
Extreme Choice has tightened his grip on favouritism for the Blue Diamond Stakes with an authoritative win in the Group Three Chairman’s Stakes. The Mick Price-trained colt firmed from $5 to $2.70 for the Blue Diamond in three weeks after resuming with a 4-1/2 length victory at Caulfield on Saturday…. Read More »
The Breeders’ Classic trophy is heading back to the Chris Waller stable for the third successive year, but not with the horse the trainer originally planned. Catkins has won the 1200m Group Two race for the past two years but it was Amicus who represented the stable at Randwick on… Read More »
All Summer Long has put himself in trainer Greg Bennett’s team for the Country Championships with victory in the Highway Handicap at Randwick. The astute Scone trainer hopes to have four runners in the heat of the Country Championships to be held in his own back yard on February 20…. Read More »
A schooling session over hurdles has sparked a return to winning form for Golden Mane at Caulfield. After winning second-up at Moonee Valley in November, Golden Mane lost form and the Lindsay Park operation resorted to a jumping session to improve the gelding. It had the desired result as Golden… 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, Doomben and Ascot.
Godolphin trainer John O’Shea expects to have at least one genuine ATC Australian Derby prospect emerge from his two runners in the Eskimo Prince Stakes. But his pick as the three-year-old most likely to make it to the Derby might not be the obvious one as Shards and Tarquin will… Read More »
