An excited bunch of first-time owners have celebrated All The Talk’s win in the Skyline Stakes at Warwick Farm which has guaranteed the colt a Golden Slipper start. Trainer Gary Portelli has had starters in the $3.5 million race but believes All The Talk represents his best chance yet to… Read More »
Emerging stayer Tremec has survived a protest to post an important stakes win at Warwick Farm ahead of a possible tilt at the Sydney Cup. The four-year-old son of super sire of stayers Zabeel, won Saturday’s Listed Randwick Stakes (2200m) by a half head from Permit with veteran Gazza Guru… Read More »
An unshakable belief in his horse promises to help counteract any anxiety jockey Jason Collett may have over his high-profile role in the $500,000 Randwick Guineas on Saturday. Collett is the only Guineas jockey who hasn’t ridden a Group One winner but in the favourite Rebel Dane, the 21-year-old has… Read More »
Randwick Guineas contender Rebel Dane will be the star of the show for Gary Portelli on Saturday but his expectations are high for his lesser-hyped runners at Warwick Farm. Rebel Dane is equal favourite with Proisir for the Group One Guineas (1600m) on the back of his close second to… Read More »
Glyn Schofield has aggravated an old injury but nothing will keep him from riding Hay List on Saturday. Schofield was stood down from riding at Canterbury after the third race on Wednesday but said he would be back to partner Hay List in the Group Two Challenge Stakes (1000m) at… Read More »
Trainer Jason Warren is planning another assault on Sydney’s autumn carnival with his star galloper Bel Sprinter after receiving a positive indication on Tuesday that the horse’s troubles are finally behind him. Bel Sprinter has endured more than the average quota of physical and mental problems in a career that… Read More »
The Doncaster Mile is the most likely autumn possibility for the talented but luckless Ethiopia. Owner Trevor Delroy says if Ethiopia runs this autumn it will be at the scene of his one-and-only success in what will be the briefest of campaigns. Ethiopia returned to Delroy’s West Australian property after… Read More »
Glamour three-year-old Pierro will miss the Randwick Guineas and will make his next Sydney autumn carnival appearance against older horses, the Gai Waterhouse stable has confirmed. “The plan at this stage is not to run in the Guineas and he will be saved for the Canterbury Stakes,” Tulloch Lodge spokesman… Read More »
Imported stayer Puissance De Lune is a $6.50 favourite for the 2013 Melbourne Cup following his dead-heat win in Saturday’s Blamey Stakes. In what was billed a cameo autumn appearance, the five-year-old confirmed his status as Australia’s most promising stayer and is now likely to be taken out of training… Read More »
Shoot Out has made it back-to-back Chipping Norton Stakes wins with a last-stride victory at Warwick Farm on Saturday. Coming from a seemingly impossible position, Shoot Out reached the front in the closing stages to claim his fifth Group One race. In the process, he smashed through the $3 million… Read More »
The best that trainer Gerald Ryan hoped for before the race was to finish second in Saturday’s Kewney Stakes at Flemington. And in the run he thought third would be the most likely result. Accordingly, Ryan was thoroughly surprised when Flying Snitzel steamed home to win the Group Two race,… Read More »
A stronger and more mature Steps In Time showed she is ready to live up to her Group One potential with a brilliant defence of the Wiggle Stakes at Warwick Farm. The five-year-old went into Saturday’s Listed race off a last-start victory over Red Tracer in the Group Two NSW… Read More »
Three-year-old Shamexpress has produced a sustained run from the back to snatch the Group One Newmarket Handicap at Flemington. In a thrilling three-way finish, Shamexpress cut down the favourite Moment Of Change in the final stages of the $1 million race. Moment Of Change recovered after dwelling at start to… Read More »
Imported stayer Puissance De Lune is a $6.50 favourite for the 2013 Melbourne Cup following his dead-heat win in Saturday’s Blamey Stakes. In what was billed a cameo autumn appearance, the five-year-old confirmed his status as Australia’s most promising stayer and is now likely to be taken out of training… Read More »
Whittington has added his name to Gai Waterhouse’s Golden Slipper contenders with a hard-fought win at Warwick Farm. The winner of the Breeders’ Plate on debut in October, Whittington was beaten by Never Can Tell when he resumed in last month’s Canonbury Stakes but made amends in Saturday’s Lonhro Plate…. Read More »
No horse in Australia has a more clear-cut long-term goal than Saturday’s Flemington winner Twilight Royale. Already one of the biggest money-winning two-year-olds in the country, Twilight Royale has put herself in line for a $2.4 million bonus. All she has to do is wait 12 months, hold her form… Read More »
Crystal Web has bounced back from a first-up defeat to become the latest stakes winner from his family in the Listed MSS Security Stakes at Flemington on Saturday. The half-brother to ill-fated 2010 Golden Slipper winner Crystal Lily benefited from an unimpeded run in the 1100m straight race to give… Read More »
If the stars align and if racing lives up to its uncanny knack of delivering unusual coincidences, the last Melbourne Cup winner and the next will both win at Flemington on Saturday. Green Moon, the most recent Cup champion, is favourite to add the Group One Australian Cup to his… Read More »
The resurgent David Hayes is looking to the support card at Flemington on Super Saturday to provide the day’s highest quality contest – and to give him another stakes success. Hayes rates the Group Two Kewney Stakes (1400m) as the race of the day on a program that includes the… Read More »
The misfortune of three other jockeys has provided Jake Noonan with a chance to launch his senior career in Saturday’s Group One Australian Cup. Noonan has retained the ride on last start Flemington winner Niconoise but only after suspensions to Brad Rawiller, Stephen Baster and trainer David Hayes’ stable rider… Read More »
