James McDonald boasts an enviable book of rides at Sha Tin on Sunday spearheaded by Romantic Warrior who gets his chance to make history in the Group 1 Hong Kong Cup. McDonald has nine rides in the ten-race program with the most highly anticipated of those Romantic Warrior who on… Read More »
Barrier one has provided the past two winners of the Group 1 Northerly Stakes (1800m) and Storyville has just edged into favouritism after drawing the inside gate in Saturday’s $1.5 million feature. Three-year-old fillies have dominated the race in recent years with Perfect Reflection, Arcadia Queen, Kay Cee and Amelia’s Jewel… Read More »
Ciaron Maher and hometown Cups have not been a happy mix for the trainer. With his major Victorian bases at Cranbourne and Ballarat, to date only the Cranbourne Cup has gone his way with Dr Drill and Charterhouse being successful when in a training partnership with David Eustace. At Ballarat he is… Read More »
Spicy Martini looks to be a filly with a bright future after winning the Mode Stakes at Doomben and maintaining a perfect record in her two starts to-date. The listed feature over 1200-metres rounded out her Queensland Summer Carnival campaign and co-trainer Toby Edmonds is now looking to the wintertime and the… Read More »
Sometimes in life, somethings never change. In racing, that one hundred percent applies to Overpass. Another trip west for the star sprinter and it will be another trip home lumping rich prizemoney on his back yet again. Four times he’s been to Ascot; four times he’s been a winner. Two Quokka’s,… Read More »
Joe Pride has been at a loss to explain the efforts of Private Eye this spring and he is no closer to figuring it out following the gelding’s inexplicable return to form in the Festival Stakes at Rosehill. While the Group 1 winner hasn’t been racing poorly – he was beaten 1-1/2… Read More »
Sydney jockey Rachel King wondered if she would make it to Caulfield in time for her ride on Arapaho in the Zipping Classic. King was forced to miss two of her earlier rides on the Caulfield card after being stranded in Sydney on Saturday due to a delay with flights because of… Read More »
Snitzanova has continued the run of success for fillies in the Sandown Guineas since the race was transferred to Caulfield with a stylish win on Saturday. Having done her early racing in Sydney, Snitzanova made her Melbourne debut with victory in the Group 2 race over 1600m. Snitzanova emulated See You… Read More »
Trainer Jason Warren is already looking ahead to the rich autumn two-year-old races after the debut win of Palm Angel at Caulfield. The daughter of Starspangledbanner registered an all-the-way victory in the Listed Merson Cooper Stakes (1000m) on Saturday with Warren immediately swinging his thoughts towards the Group 1 Blue Diamond… Read More »
Trainer Ciaron Maher has a quartet of stayers engaged in the Zipping Classic as he bids to win the race for a second time. Maher teamed with David Eustace to win the 2400m Group 2 race with Southern France in 2019 when the race was run at Sandown. The last three… Read More »
The Grahame Begg-trained Nonconformist is set to have his first Victorian start in 13 months when he lines-up at Caulfield. The Group 2 Zipping Classic (2400m) on Saturday will be Nonconformist’s first start in Victoria since finishing fourth to Alligator Blood in the Group 1 Might And Power (2000m) at Caulfield… Read More »
Matt Dale is still debating where to run evergreen sprinter Front Page this weekend, although stablemate and debutant Bombay Boom is a confirmed starter in Sydney. Front Page is an acceptor for the Listed Starlight Stakes (1100m) at Rosehill and the Group 3 George Moore Stakes (1200m) at Doomben and Dale… Read More »
It might have been a late November victory but Rob Heathcote is a believer that Abounding is a proper Sydney autumn and Queensland winter carnival horse after her return victory at Doomben on Wednesday. The now four-year-old may not have hit the winners’ list last May and June but Heathcote… Read More »
Jockey Jye Mcneil is looking to be third time lucky aboard Serpentine when the pair again combine, this time in the Zipping Classic at Caulfield. McNeil last rode the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained galloper in the 2023 Melbourne Cup when 19th behind Without A Fight with his only other time aboard being… Read More »
Top Sydney jockey Jason Collett will be bidding to consolidate his strong start to the season with a handy book of rides at the Festival Stakes meeting at Rosehill. Coming off his best ever year in 2023-24 when he rode 72 city winners, Collett currently sits third on the premiership with… Read More »
The racing world is in shock after the tragic death of King Kirk, the early favourite for the 2025 Golden Slipper. The promising colt, trained by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, passed away on Tuesday following a freak accident at the Randwick racecourse horse pool. During a routine swimming session… Read More »
Hit and run missions in Perth have been somewhat the making of Overpass, who has won thrice at Ascot, collecting the first two editions of The Quokka (1200m) and last year’s Group 1 Winterbottom Stakes (1200m), a crown he’ll attempt to defend on Saturday. The six-year-old gelding has won over… Read More »
James Cummings and the Godolphin team are happy to again step up to 1600m with a more mature Pisces at Caulfield. Gelded at the end of his two –year-old season, Pisces has finished in the placings in his two runs this campaign, including a win in the Group 3 Blue Sapphire Stakes… Read More »
Fresh from Port Lockroy taking out the Railway Stakes (1600m) on Saturday, the Annabel Neasham-Rob Archibald training operation are quietly confident of securing a second Group 1 victory in the space of seven days in Perth this weekend. Neasham and Archibald will saddle up Lady Laguna in the Winterbottom Stakes, optimistic she… Read More »
Arapaho may not have won a race for more than 18 months, but through a number of setbacks and issues over that time he has become one of the more special horses to Bjorn Baker’s training team. Arapaho is set to line up in the Group 2 Zipping Classic at… Read More »
