Cranbourne colt Polanski has been heavily backed to win the Victoria Derby at Flemington tomorrow. $650 VICTORIA DERBY FREE BET The bargain buy, who cost just $4000 as a yearling, is $6.00 and the best backed runner with online bookmaker sportsbet.com.au. Favourite Savvy Nature has eased from $4.60 to $4.80… Read More »
For the second year in a row trainer John Thompson has a filly ready to run the race of her life in the Group One Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington. The trainer won the race with Nechita 12 months ago but says it’s too hard to line up the form… Read More »
Roger James is certain Zonza’s trackwork drubbing on Tuesday is not a reflection of her chances in the Group One Myer Classic. Zonza was paired with Melbourne Cup-bound Silent Achiever on the course proper at Flemington and was left behind in the run to the line. “If you saw her… Read More »
There is really only one place where Red Cadeaux shouldn’t be backed. At home. Anywhere else he’s a winning chance. “He just loves being away from home,” said trainer Ed Dunlop. As a result, he spends as little time as possible in England, and even Ireland is proving too close… Read More »
A mare descended from a Melbourne Cup winner will get a final chance to earn her place in Tuesday’s elite field when she tackles the Lexus Stakes. The Nigel Blackiston-trained Let’s Make Adeal is a granddaughter of 1991 Melbourne Cup winner Let’s Elope. She will take her place in Saturday’s… Read More »
Hugh Bowman is buoyant about his chances of a third Victoria Derby win in four years when he rides bargain buy Polanski on Saturday. The Robbie Laing-trained colt was a $4000 yearling and has now banked more than $250,000 prize money with three wins from eight starts including the Group… Read More »
The race that has everything has gone to a horse which had nothing. Shamus Award, a colt whose place until Saturday had been on racing’s lowest rung, won arguably Australia’s greatest race, the $3 million Cox Plate. It doing so, he defied the country’s best horses and some of the… Read More »
Glyn Schofield says everything he has done in an international career as a jockey pales in comparison to watching his son Chad win the Cox Plate. An excited Schofield led the cheering in the Rosehill jockeys’ room on Saturday as 19-year-old Chad steered three-year-old Shamus Award to an all-the-way win… Read More »
Three-year-old Shamus Award has made all the running to win the $3 million Cox Plate at Moonee Valley on Saturday. A maiden going into the weight-for-age race, the Danny O’Brien-trained Shamus Award staved off a desperate lunge from Happy Trails to score by a half head. Fiorente was a long… Read More »
Chris Waller will consider pitting Catkins against the stable’s star mare Red Tracer in next Saturday’s Group One Myer Classic after her strong victory at Moonee Valley on Saturday. The tenacious and talented Catkins handled her first 1600m test with aplomb to take out the Group Three Eliza Park International… Read More »
“Extraordinary! He’s back!” That’s how one punter summed it up as Bart Cummings’ last hope for a Melbourne Cup start, Precedence, powered home to win the Group Two Moonee Valley Gold Cup on Saturday. The race was a “last chance saloon” for three other horses in the race – Tanby,… Read More »
Quayside has earned her place in the VRC Oaks with a Rosehill victory that suggests she will have no trouble handling the 2500 metres of the fillies Classic. In what could be a portent to Group One success, the David Payne-trained three-year-old won a similar race to that which preceded… Read More »
Savvy Nature has thrown out the challenge to Spring Champion Stakes winner Complacent ahead of the Victoria Derby with a classy victory in Saturday’s Group Two Vase at Moonee Valley. The John O’Shea-trained Savvy Nature started $1.80 favourite in the 2040m traditional Derby lead-up and rounded the field from last… Read More »
An astonishing run of outs for Melbourne’s premier trainer Peter Moody ended with the win of a horse who had also been on an extensive search for a city win. Moody had sent out 73 successive losers in town before Thermal Current amended the record for both himself and his… Read More »
Former Carlton star Greg Williams was among the owners celebrating the success of four-year-old stallion Hvasstan, which hung on gamely to win the Drummond Golf Handicap at Moonee Valley on Saturday. Williams bought Hvasstan for $200,000 as a yearling and has enjoyed the ride since, as the son of Fastnet… Read More »
Jockey Clare Lindop felt it was “slightly unfair” she was denied a dead heat on Nearest To Pin in Saturday’s City Jeep Handicap at Moonee Valley. But for the winning connections of Vibrant Rouge a decent wait for the judge’s decision was worth it. Lindop burst through along the inside… Read More »
David Payne thought so much of Bold Circle as a yearling the trainer shelled $100,000 of his own money to buy him. Some time later many others decided to join in and the large group was on hand to see the colt win at Rosehill on Saturday with the promise… Read More »
A night of disappointment turned into a day of success for owner and breeder Alan Green thanks to the win of Silversands in the Inglis Banner (1000m) at Moonee Valley. And the victory in the $250,000 race could be the start of a big day for Green and his Echo… Read More »
Seven-year-old Canali showed he still has plenty of speed left in his legs after winning over his pet 1000m distance at Moonee Valley leading from start to finish. The frontrunning Canali ($10), with Stephen Baster on board, stuck to his tried and true tactic of getting to the lead as… Read More »
Star Queensland sprinter Buffering has finally snared a Group One victory, taking out the Manikato Stakes at Moonee Valley. Buffering’s 18 previous attempts to win at the highest level had yielded 10 minor placings but he was not to be denied on Friday night, holding off Hong Kong’s Lucky Nine… Read More »
