Clayton Douglas would have loved to have been a part of the Sydney Autumn carnival with Giga Kick, but the chance to take up what could prove a once-in-a-career opportunity has proven too good to resist. The 2022 The Everest winner will therefore resume in this Saturday’s The Goodwood (1200m) at… Read More »
Markets have Buckaroo as the top pick of Chris Waller’s quartet of Hollindale Stakes runners but the trainer isn’t sure it is so clear-cut. The champion horseman will also be represented by Lindermann, Militarize and Kovalica in Saturday’s Group 2 contest at the Gold Coast and believes all are genuine contenders. “If we… Read More »
Naval College has a couple of stablemates kicking off Queensland Winter Carnival campaigns this weekend and he is on trial to join them when he runs at Gosford. The Annabel and Rob Archibald-trained import will contest Saturday’s $300,000 Gosford Gold Cup (2100m). The Listed event will be the second start of… Read More »
Michael Kent Jnr is under no illusions as to the task of beating a horse like Giga Kick in The Goodwood on Saturday but believes his pair are the right contenders. Kent Jnr, who trains in partnership with Mick Price, will saddle up a pair of last-start winners, headed by Group… Read More »
Ka Ying Rising, the worldâs top-rated sprinter, will avoid the Champions Sprint at Flemington in favour of the Russell Balding Stakes at Rosehill in November. Trainer David Hayes revealed the decision, which comes after Racing Victoriaâs tough veterinary protocols prompted the change in plans. “The race after The Everest carries… Read More »
One of just two fillies in the race, Femminile has relished the quick turnaround from last week’s Oaks to take out the Group 1 South Australian Derby (2500m) at Morphettville on Saturday for trainer Phillip Stokes. Under a cool Lachlan Neindorf, the daughter of Dundeel didn’t have to go around a… Read More »
Noel Callow recorded his biggest win in eight years when he made the most of a call-up to land the first leg of a Group 2 double for Annabel and Rob Archibald at Eagle Farm on Saturday. The 49-year-old steered Depth Of Character to a dominant win in the $350,000 Queensland… Read More »
Competing on three consecutive Saturday’s is a big ask of any horse but Punch Lane has made it look easy, backing up his dominant win at Randwick seven days ago with another emphatic effort at Hawkesbury. The superior wet track performer started a $2.30 betting sites favourite and relished the heavy… Read More »
The Spring Carnival might seem a way off, but Kaleo has given Ciaron Maher and the Southern Cross Syndications team cause to at least start thinking about it. The two-year-old son of Churchill broke his maiden in Saturday’s $150,000 Remembering Margaret McDonald Handicap at Caulfield. The 1400-metre event was just his second… Read More »
Twelve months after capturing the Clarendon Stakes on the corresponding program, Media World will return to Hawkesbury on a mission to add the Guineas to his resume. The Yulong-owned colt broke his maiden in the two-year-old race last year and wasn’t far off some of the better three-year-olds in the spring,… Read More »
A million-dollar race in northern Queensland was not necessarily on the agenda for Bjorn Baker’s stable late last year, but two horses which they describe as revelations are making their way to Rockhampton from Brisbane in search of their own piece of history in The Archer. The 1300-metre slot race… Read More »
An almost faultless display of jumping over 33 fences and 5500m has given Duke Of Bedford victory in the Grand Annual Steeplechase at Warrnambool. Duke Of Bedford became the first jumper since Gold Medals in 2018 to complete the steeplechase double at the Warrnambool Carnival, having already taken out the Brierly… Read More »
The adage of not making decisions on race day has rung true for Cliff Brown and his Group 1 South Australian Derby hope Scintillante. Soon after Scintillante crossed the line in the Chairman’s Stakes (2000m) at Morphettville last Saturday, Brown was ready to pack his bags and head back to Melbourne…. Read More »
Trainers have concocted many a wild excuse for a racehorse being beaten but rarely has an intimidating chicken been one of them. Two years ago, the Sydney-based Joe Pride took Coal Crusher to Brisbane for the BRC Sprint (1350m) at Doomben where he started well in the market and finished down the… Read More »
Lindsay Park galloper Makram has a habit of being a blowout horse for punters. The Ben, Will and J D Hayes-trained galloper has registered a Flemington Stakes race win at $151, in which he lowered the colours of dual Group 1 winner Jimmysstar. That was in February last year, and Makram’s… Read More »
Local trainer Aaron Purcell has added the feature sprint race of the Warrnambool Carnival to his record with Dashing taking out the Listed Wangoom Handicap. Purcell has now won three of the five features over the three-day Carnival with Wednesday’s victory going alongside the Grand Annual Steeplechase and Galleywood Hurdle. He now… Read More »
In the past 15 years, only four stables have prepared the winner of Australia’s toughest race, the Grand Annual Steeplechase (5500m) at Warrnambool. Ciaron Maher, who also teamed with David Eustace on three occasions, has seven wins to his credit since 2010 with Patrick Payne leading in four winners. New Zealander John… Read More »
After a maiden hurdle win at Hamilton two years ago, it would have been safe to assume that jumps racing would be the future for True Marvel. But since that win in May 2023, True Marvel has been kept to flat racing, contesting Stakes company including running eighth in the… Read More »
The Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou stable has a Stakes race or a benchmark option in mind for recently gelded Just Party at Hawkesbury. Just Party is entered in the Group 3 Hawkesbury Guineas and the benchmark 88 handicap on Saturday with both races to be run over 1400m. The three-year-old will… Read More »
Emma-Lee Browne is confident Statuario is perfectly primed for the Group One South Australian Derby (2500m) at Morphettville on Saturday. Browne, who trains in partnership with her husband David, says Adelaide has been a long-term plan for the last-start Galilee Series Final winner. “I’m very, very happy with him,” Browne said…. Read More »
