Trainer Mike Moroney’s decision to pull Caulfield specialist Octavia out of the Group Three Bletchingly Stakes paid off handsomely on Saturday. Octavia jumped to the front in the Daniel McMillian Handicap and the $1.95 favourite scored by 3-1/2 lengths from Draw Forward ($15) with Means A Lot ($13) third. Moroney… Read More »
Relief was the over-riding emotion for apprentice jockey Janette Johnson after a milestone win aboard Voodoo Blue Magic at Doomben on Saturday. After being held up for a run at the 250-metre mark, Voodoo Blue Magic edged out Prussian Heart to win the Canadian Club Handicap (1200m) by a half-head…. Read More »
David Vandyke is looking to Arabian Gold to give him his first Group One victory with the Flight Stakes the aim for the filly who scored her fourth win from six starts on Saturday. The Warwick Farm trainer has assembled a strong spring team with Arabian Gold headed to the… Read More »
Nash Rawiller has begun his quest for the Sydney jockeys’ title in earnest with victory in the first race at Randwick aboard Watabout. The filly is raced by George Altomonte who also owns Golden Slipper winner Overreach. Starting the $1.70 favourite in the 1300m race for two-year-olds, the Allan Denham-trained… Read More »
A colt with “a hell of a pedigree” and enough ability to overshadow his shortcomings gave Peter Moody a new spring Classic candidate at Caulfield on Saturday. Monkstone, a $1 million Fastnet Rock yearling, made amends for his problematic debut of two weeks ago with a convincing victory in the… Read More »
The scoreboard will show Peter Moody has trained fewer winners in Melbourne this year than in his previous three dominant seasons. But Moody will still be premier trainer for the fourth successive year and he’ll still be among the top three trainers in the country – and he’ll be hungry… Read More »
In-form gelding Pago Rock is on target to notch a hat-trick and his biggest career win in the Bletchingly Stakes on Saturday. $250 BLETCHINGLY STAKES FREE BET Online bookmaker sportsbet.com.au opened Pago Rock as the $3.80favourite for the Group 3 at Caulfield and there has been good backing for the… Read More »
For all the things Tommy Berry learned in Hong Kong, there were also a few he forgot. Berry returns to Sydney Saturday racing for the first time in almost three months with seven mounts at Randwick this weekend. It comes after a low-key Sydney resumption at Hawkesbury last Sunday, and… Read More »
Royal Descent was one of the revelations of the Sydney autumn carnival but Chris Waller is open minded about her spring campaign. The Australian Oaks winner will be among a handful of high-profile horses stepping out in barrier trials at Warwick Farm on Friday along with stablemates Shoot Out and… Read More »
Gai Waterhouse has called for an overhaul to the rule requiring trainers to report health issues in horses after being found guilty of not revealing More Joyous was lame leading into the Queen of the Turf Stakes. Waterhouse already has a case under appeal for not reporting treatment given to… Read More »
Nash Rawiller has laid down the gauntlet to Hugh Bowman on Saturday with a four-win haul at Rosehill to close the gap to 1-1/2 wins in their intriguing battle for this season’s Sydney riding honours. Bowman will miss Wednesday’s meeting through suspension, giving Rawiller a golden opportunity to take the… Read More »
Melbourne’s leading trainer Peter Moody returned from a couple of weeks in the wilderness – both personally and professionally – when Grand Slam Eagle scored at Flemington on Saturday. Moody has missed the past couple of city meetings while on an aerial safari of northern Australia. But he didn’t miss… Read More »
A horse with a litany of feet and leg issues has performed a minor miracle in the Flemington wet on Saturday. Weekend Special, beset with terrible feet, fetlock joints and knees, had a day out in the rain, appreciating a track which had been downgraded to the heavy range by… Read More »
Effervescent Frenchman Thomas Huet has expressed his love for Australia after claiming his first Sydney stakes win aboard Under The Sun at Rosehill. Huet and the Gai Waterhouse-trained four-year-old exacted revenge on their last-start conqueror Mic Mac in Saturday’s Listed Winter Stakes (1400m). Under The Sun finished second to Mic… Read More »
A family that has produced seven jockeys and three trainers from one generation is bound to occasionally enjoy a numerical advantage. For the Payne family the numbers fell as never before at Flemington on Saturday when brothers Andrew and Patrick trained a winner each and sister Michelle rode one of… Read More »
When Cranbourne trainer Doug Harrison first spotted Falcent in the pouring rain in New Zealand he knew he had to have him. The three-year-old didn’t let him down at Flemington with a track that was soaked all night by heavy rain and much of Saturday. Falcent ($7), ridden by Dwayne… Read More »
Melbourne’s leading trainer Peter Moody returned from a couple of weeks in the wilderness – both personally and professionally – when Grand Slam Eagle scored at Flemington on Saturday. Moody has missed the past couple of city meetings while on an aerial safari of northern Australia. But he didn’t miss… Read More »
Bull Point has reaffirmed he will be a three-year-old to watch in the new season with victory at Rosehill in a race that ended in disaster for the third placegetter. Glyn Schofield weighed in light on Wouldn’t it Be Nice who was disqualified with the jockey unable to offer any… Read More »
Jockey Glen Killen has learned not to doubt the judgment of trainer Alan Jones. Killen followed Jones’s instructions to lead on Clonmacnoise in Saturday’s Sky Racing Handicap (2200m) at Eagle Farm and make it a true staying test. “When I had my first ride on this horse it was at… Read More »
A filly who severed her tendon at her second start proved she finally had everything together with a convincing victory at Flemington on Saturday. The injury suffered in a race at Wangaratta kept It’s Poets Day out of action for six months and also left a mental scar that has… Read More »
