Flying galloper Agitate lived up to his reputation as the fastest barrier horse in Queensland with a blistering display of pace at Doomben on Saturday. Agitate ($4.80) overcame the notoriously biased 1110-metre start when he jumped straight to the front and raced away to beat the favourite Havana ($2.15) by… Read More »
Bomber Brown has given his sire his first metropolitan Australian winner and stamped himself as a stayer of the future with victory at Rosehill. The David Payne-trained two-year-old son of 2008 Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown handled the 1800 metres of the Juvenile Stayers race with ease. Backed from $4.40… Read More »
Queensland sprint star Buffering is all the rage for tomorrow’s BTC Cup at Doomben. Special Offer: $400 BTC CUP FREE BET Buffering dominates betting with online bookmaker Sportsbet.com.au and the $2.00 favourite is the only horse punters want to back. “The race is over in most punter’s minds. Buffering has had more… Read More »
With Damien Oliver interstate chasing Group One success, James Winks will be out of make the most of a Flemington opportunity on Black Caviar’s half-sister Belle Couture. Winks will partner the younger sibling of the champion mare in Saturday’s Spotless Plate (1200m). The high-profile filly posted her first victory at… Read More »
Jamie Kah is not the only apprentice with a golden opportunity to ride in her first Group One race on Saturday with Kayla Nisbet excited, if not a little surprised, to be given a chance on Pago Rock in the Goodwood. Kah has retained the mount on leading Goodwood contender… Read More »
Caulfield trainer Mick Price will spare unbeaten colt Pressing an arduous float trip to Brisbane and instead fly him north to tackle next month’s Group One J J Atkins. Pressing will travel with Group Three winner Jazz Song on a flight that will depart at midnight on Tuesday. The trainer… Read More »
Honest mare Platelet has lost no admirers after a horror barrier draw for The Goodwood on Saturday. $500 THE GOODWOOD FREE BET Platelet ($7.50) remains the best backed runner with online bookmaker Sportsbet.com.au. In a very open race Miracles Of Life ($6.50) heads the market over Driefontein ($7.00). “It’s going to… Read More »
John O’Shea has ushered in a new era in the best way possible, producing a winner with his first runner as head trainer for Darley Australia. O’Shea only assumed the role on Sunday and two-year-old Alaska marked his first starter for Sheikh Mohammed in the Heading Out Hair & Beauty… Read More »
Sportingbet Classic winner Driefontein and Sportingbet Stakes winner Miracles Of Life are $7 equal favourites at Sportingbet for Saturday’s The Goodwood after both horses received inside barriers for the Group 1 feature at Morphettville. $500 THE GOODWOOD FREE BET Defending champion Platelet is right behind them in betting at $7.50, just in front of pre-post… Read More »
South Australian three-year-old Kushadasi has claimed his home town Derby in a desperate finish, edging out Victorian filly Scratchy Bottom. Trained by Richard Jolly, Kushadasi was steered down the middle of the track by Steven Arnold after early leader Order Of The Sun weakened in the straight. At the end… Read More »
An emotional Guy Walter has declared top mare Streama on course to win her fourth Group One race after she returned to the winner’s circle at the Gold Coast. Streama ($3.30) scored her first win since the Group One George Main Stakes in September when she overhauled Mr O’Ceirin ($5.50)… Read More »
It didn’t take long for Peter Snowden’s last day as Darley Australia’s trainer to turn into a monster celebration of his six years with one of the world’s biggest thoroughbred concerns. Snowden started the annual Hawkesbury stand-alone meeting on Saturday by training the trifecta in the first race before he… Read More »
A trip to Scone beckons for Under The Louvre after he scored his first win for trainer Robert Smerdon at Caulfield. Under The Louvre was part of a group of horses to join Smerdon after his original trainer Tony Vasil decided to take a break from racing to deal with… Read More »
A never-say-die approach to racing turned out to be the difference between winning and losing for Chaparro in the Grand Annual Steeplechase at Warrnambool on Thursday. In a desperate and memorable end to a race that provides a test of character for horse and jockey like few others in Australia,… Read More »
The Warrnambool straight seemed like it stretched for miles for the connections of Wednesday’s Listed Wangoom Handicap winner Kneeling. The Peter Moody-trained mare shared the speed for most of the race before darting three lengths clear at the 250m but there were no shortage of chasing horses. Linda Meech rode… Read More »
Palmero had hearts in mouths before he scored an all-the-way win in Tuesday’s Brierly Steeplechase at Warrnambool. Palmero went to the front after jumping the first obstacle and was never headed despite putting in three awkward leaps on the second lap. The gelding’s jockey Steven Pateman blamed himself for Palmero’s… Read More »
What began as an experiment has turned into a coup for Sydney racing with Japanese mare Hana’s Goal taking out the Group One All Aged Stakes at Randwick. Hana’s Goal and Irish horse Gordon Lord Byron were the only two international horses to make the long trip to Australia for… Read More »
Two Blue has continued a remarkable season for Kristen Buchanan and the best could be yet to come. Buchanan prepares a small string at Wyong on the NSW Central Coast and the mare’s victory in Saturday’s BMW Handicap (1200m) at Randwick gave the trainer her fifth city win this season…. Read More »
Kaypers will be given the chance to continue his winning run in his hometown of Scone after breaking a sequence of outs at Randwick on Saturday. The six-year-old had been racing in great heart, including a close-up fourth in the Newcastle Newmarket, but had not won for 20 months. His… Read More »
Order Of The Sun has thrashed his opposition to give Gai Waterhouse her second straight VRC St Leger at Flemington. The manner of the win was vastly different from a year ago when his stablemate Hippopus took a sit behind the speed. On Friday, Order Of The Sun simply ran… Read More »
