Taking on a $250,000 race at a distance shorter than what seems to be his preferred, and having been out of the winners’ list for more than a year, hasn’t stood in the way of Regardsmaree snaring a late drive victory in the VOBIS Gold Sprint (1200m) at Caulfield. The five-year-old… Read More »
Matt Laurie is developing a knack for training winners on the annual VOBIS raceday at Caulfield having won the inaugural running of the million-dollar Showdown (1200m) in 2019 with Prince Of Sussex, and has followed up in 2022 with Chartres taking out the $500,000 VOBIS Sires Guineas (1600m). A group of Victorian hobby… Read More »
Trainer Danny Williams and jockey William Pike have combined to take out the first race at Randwick with Bandi’s Boy. It was shades of Nash Rawiller on Think It Over when William Pike ‘s mount Bandi’s Boy drifted towards the outside fence in the opening race at Randwick, but it was… Read More »
Zaaki’s connections have officially abandoned plans for a return to Royal Ascot with the star import a confirmed starter at this year’s Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival. Trainer Annabel Neasham on Friday announced via social media that the gelding would aim to defend his Hollindale Stakes and Doomben Cup crowns in preference… Read More »
Group One winning mare Bella Vella will return to racing this Saturday after failing to get in foal for a second season as a broodmare. The Will Clarken trained Bella Vella is now seven years of age, but a zest for racing has encouraged Rosemont Stud to see if she can become… Read More »
International runners will again be required to undergo and successfully pass CT scans before leaving their home country and again before their first start in Melbourne during the 2022 Spring Racing Carnival. Racing Victoria (RV) on Wednesday announced in a media briefing that it had endorsed the requirements introduced prior… Read More »
The first thing Danny Williams checked when he saw it had started raining in Melbourne was the forecast for the rest of the week and the second was Shelby Sixtysix’s VOBIS Gold eligibility. Once he learned the star of his Goulburn stable was, he threw in an entry for the $250,000… Read More »
Crosswinds will be looking to make it three wins from three starts as he chases a big payday at Caulfield this Saturday with victory in the $1 million VOBIS Showdown. Run over 1200m for two-year-olds, the Showdown field will be headlined by the exciting Anthony & Sam Freedman trained colt… Read More »
Mick Price will approach Ayrton’s impending Brisbane Winter Carnival will more enthusiasm than he might have heading into Saturday’s Caulfield card after the gelding was able to surprise him in the Victoria Handicap. Ayrton was having his first start since the serious spider bite ailment that prematurely ended his spring campaign… Read More »
Tofane narrowly missed out of a fairytale farewell in Sydney, but Mike Moroney was able to console himself with victory in the $200,000 Group 3 Easter Cup (2000m) at Caulfield. Just 20 minutes after Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale-bound Tofane was run down by Cascadian in the Group 1 All Aged… Read More »
For the second time is as many weeks, Nash Rawiller has pulled off an audacious winning ride, this time aboard Godolphin warhorse Kementari. Where Rawiller hooked Think It Over towards the outside fence to win the Queen Elizabeth Stakes seven days ago, he scraped paint along the inside rail to squeeze… Read More »
Espiona hasn’t reached the heights expected of her this autumn, but trainer Chris Waller is adamant she is a Group 1 horse in the making. The $2.25 favourite rounded out her campaign with a consolation win in Saturday’s James H B Carr Stakes (1400m) at Randwick, thumping her rivals by 4-1/2 lengths… Read More »
Trainer Anthony Cummings and jockeyTommy Berry have combined to mastermind a Champagne Stakes upset with She’s Extreme, the filly denying Fireburn a clean-sweep of the two-year-old triple crown. Fireburn had had the measure of She’s Extreme the three times they had met over shorter distances but Cummings said he never lost faith… Read More »
Former New Zealander Verona has all but forced her way onto Ciaron Maher’s Brisbane winter carnival team with a dashing victory in the Frank Packer Plate at Randwick. Having finished fifth in midweek grade at her Australian debut over a mile last month, the filly appreciated a distance rise to… Read More »
On the cusp of capturing a slice of triple crown history, Gary Portelli admits he came into the autumn thinking he might have the horse to clean-sweep the two-year-old features. He was a little bit right and a little bit wrong. Portelli’s juvenile triple crown aspirations were for Breeders’ Plate winner… Read More »
In what has been a stop-start autumn for Mo’Unga, the All Aged Stakes is shaping as a perfect campaign reboot, provided the Randwick track continues to dry out. The four-year-old missed a scheduled start in the George Ryder Stakes due to an elevated temperature and Saturday’s feature will be his… Read More »
Trainer Gerald Ryan is relying on Williamsburg being the fresh horse on the scene as he attempts to thwart the triple crown hopes of star youngster Fireburn. Having claimed the Golden Slipper and Sires’ Produce Stakes in emphatic fashion, Fireburn needs to add Saturday’s Group 1 Champagne Stakes (1600m) to become the… Read More »
In many ways, it doesn’t really matter how Ayrton goes in Saturday’s Victoria Handicap, merely getting back to the races is a triumph. The gelding’s racing was in doubt after he was hospitalised following a spider bite in the heart of last year’s Spring Carnival. But after an extensive rehabilitation… Read More »
It has been more than two decades in the making, but Hugh Bowman is set to fulfil a long-held ambition of riding at the Warrnambool May Racing Carnival. The Hall of Fame rider will be one of the star attractions at this year’s three-day carnival, which starts in exactly four weeks,… Read More »
Zayydani will be the highest rated horse in the group three Easter Cup at Caulfield on Saturday as the Ben & JD Hayes mare targets group one riches in the Queensland Winter. The five-year-old mare is coming off her best ever preparation last Spring, having run 4th, beaten a length… Read More »
