A dropped whip forced Nash Rawiller to call on every ounce of his energy and riding skill to win the Newcastle Gold Cup on iron horse Winning Glory on Thursday. “I was throwing everything at him. It was real kitchen sink stuff,” Rawiller said. The David Payne-trained Winning Glory ($16)… Read More »
Gai Waterhouse, due to face stewards’ inquiry over Rockabill’s Spring Stakes withdrawal, was all smiles after Vaquera won the Tibbie Stakes at Newcastle on Thursday. Stewards scratched Rockabill from Wednesday’s Spring Stakes after the senior veterinarian for Racing NSW, Craig Suann, inspected the horse at the trainer’s stable and found… Read More »
Jockey Damian Browne cleared Buffering for a return to racing after the star sprinter completed an exhibition gallop at Doomben on Wednesday. Buffering worked outside stablemate San Jose from the 1000m before increasing the tempo in the last 600m and held a 1-1/2 lengths margin at the end of the… Read More »
Local trainers are heavily favoured to win this year’s Melbourne Cup, but not with a locally-bred horse. Only 10 of the first 50 horses in the Cup weights released on Tuesday were bred in Australia or New Zealand with 22 of the 40 foreigners now trained here. As a result… Read More »
Stayer and part-time hurdler Tuscan Fire, who won at the juicy odds of $101 at Flemington last month over 1400 metres, is moving into distances where he is most comfortable starting with Saturday’s Naturalism Stakes over 2000 metres at Caulfield. His trainer Dan O’Sullivan said Tuscan Fire’s last three races… Read More »
George Main Stakes entry Sincero could have his spring reshaped to include a start in the Epsom Handicap. Trainer Stephen Farley said he was now open-minded about giving Sincero another chance to complete Sydney’s spring Group One mile double following the release of Epsom weights on Monday. Winner of the… Read More »
Punters have slashed Prince Cheri’s odds of winning The Metropolitan from $17 into $5.50 at Sportingbet following a large volume of significant bets on Tuesday. $200 THE METROPOLITAN FREE BET The David Vandyke trained five-year-old rocketed into favouritism at Sportingbet.com.au ahead of Moriarty at $6.50 for the Group 1 race… Read More »
Nash Rawiller’s faith in Fiorente was justified at Moonee Valley on Saturday when the import flashed home to win the Group Two Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes. Sydney’s premier jockey gave up the chance to win a $1 million race at Rosehill to continue his association with Fiorente, the horse… Read More »
The Chris Waller-trained Zoustar has produced a magnificent finish to claim the $1 million Golden Rose at Rosehill. The widest runner in the straight, Zoustar launched his bid from 350m and claimed the leaders inside the furlong. “He’s a serious colt and obviously he’s a very valuable colt (now),” Waller… Read More »
A return to winning form by Driefontein after an absence of 18 months has set the scene for the mare to finally fulfil her Group One potential. The Gai Waterhouse-trained four-year-old, who was tried over 2000 metres in the autumn, took out Saturday’s Group Three Sheraco Stakes (1200m) to begin… Read More »
Sydney colt Kuroshio shrugged off a last-start failure with an all-the-way win in the Group Two McEwen Stakes at Moonee Valley on Saturday. Kuroshio ($16) made his intentions known early when he crossed to lead from a wide gate. Burning off challenges, Kuroshio defeated the Peter Moody-trained favourite Moment of… Read More »
Chris Waller has a confirmed Epsom Handicap runner in Riva De Lago, who booked his spot in the Group One field with a surprise win in Saturday’s Sebring Sprint at Rosehill. Rain Affair, a drifting favourite for the 1400m race, took up his customary role as leader but he had… Read More »
Atlantic Jewel strolled around Moonee Valley on Saturday to stretch her unbeaten record and stake a claim as Australia’s best racehorse. Starting at Black Caviar-like odds of $1.06 in the Group Two Stocks Stakes (1600m), Atlantic Jewel never looked in danger as she coasted to her ninth win and moved… Read More »
Gai Waterhouse has covered all bases with the promising Ecuador, an all-the-way winner at Rosehill on Saturday. The four-year-old holds entries to the country’s biggest spring races – the Cox Plate, Caulfield and Melbourne Cups, Epsom Handicap and the Metropolitan. But whether he gets to any of them depends on… Read More »
The persuasive powers of trainer Wade Slinkard helped set up a fairytale city debut for apprentice Claire Nutman aboard Footy Fan at Rosehill on Saturday. Until last week, the 3kg claimer was only allowed to ride on out-of-town tracks but was given special permission to come to Rosehill to ride… Read More »
Damien Oliver announced his return to city racing with victory on the Gai Waterhouse-trained Divine Calling at Moonee Valley on Saturday. Oliver returned on Friday at Geelong after serving a 10-month ban for betting $10,000 on a rival horse in a race in which he rode at Moonee Valley in… Read More »
Lightly raced filly Solicit continued her winning form with a last-stride victory at Moonee Valley on Saturday. The three-year-old daughter of Street Cry got knocked around on the tight corner into the straight but, with Glen Boss on board, regathered her momentum to run down frontrunner Longchamp Belle on the… Read More »
Mark Kavanagh’s decision to split his stable stars this weekend has put jockey Michael Rodd in the box seat for a feature race double at Moonee Valley. With Atlantic Jewel being kept to her own sex in the Group Two Stocks Stakes (1600m), it paves the way for Rodd to… Read More »
The Gerald Ryan-trained Ironstein heads weights for next week’s $175,000 Newcastle Gold Cup. The evergreen stayer has been given 59kg in the Group Three staying test on Thursday – 1.5kg more than Crafty Irna and Peal Of Bells. Closing in on $1 million in stakes, Ironstein signalled he is set… Read More »
Trainer Chris Waller’s concern about the mental attitude of Zoustar going into the Golden Rose has eased on the back of a carefully planned track gallop. Waller revealed he put Zoustar against an inferior stablemate this week and the colt did what he was expected to do – win the… Read More »
