Danny Williams plans to have a significant representation in next year’s Country Championships and one of his leading contenders will be in action at Rosehill on Saturday. The Goulburn trainer has up to eight horses earmarked as candidates for the series, restricted to country-trained horses and culminates in a Final… Read More »
She may sound sweet but Iamacrumpet is one tough little mare. The four-year-old will run in the Highway Handicap at Rosehill on Saturday after winning by almost three lengths at Muswellbrook last week. It is the Jan Bowen-trained runner’s maiden trip to Sydney, and the first metropolitan meeting for her… Read More »
The Lion has claimed a second Highway Handicap win to ease the pain of what should have been his third. A post-race drug test after his victory at Randwick in June was found to contain an illegal substance and the gelding was stripped of his win. Trainer Michelle Fleming admitted… Read More »
Tristan De Angel has put Murwillumbah trainer Matt Dunn back on the Highway Handicap winners’ list and fuelled ambitions for the Country Championship. The gelding’s win in Saturday’s 1400m race stopped a run of Canberra winners since the ACT trainers returned to the country racing fold. Dunn said he had… Read More »
Favourite Sei Stella has blitzed the field to comfortably win the TAB Highway Handicap at Randwick. Sent out at $3.80, the Matthew Dale-trained four-year-old streaked away to claim victory in Saturday’s 1000m sprint by 3-1/4 lengths ahead of Lifesaver and Prince Planet. It was the second win in the past… Read More »
Training partners Keith Dryden and Scott Collings have celebrated the return of Canberra horses to the Highway Handicaps with Handle The Truth winning at Rosehill. Canberra was taken out of the series for country-trained horses last year when they were assessed to be provincial class but were reinstated from the… Read More »
Matt Dunn’s latest Highway Handicap winner has stamped himself as a contender for the $1.3 million Kosciuszko. Lifesaver has become the Murwillumbah trainer’s 18th winner of the Highway races for country-trained horses with his victory over 1100 metres at Rosehill on Saturday. The lure of the big prize on the… Read More »
Brett Cavanough isn’t sure if Star Boy is a Country Championships prospect this year despite winning the Highway Handicap at Warwick Farm. Star Boy ($6.50) was on speed throughout, kicked on the turn and held off the fast-finishing Under The Thumb ($14) to score by a short neck. Cavanough said… Read More »
Mister Smartee will finally get to race in Sydney, two years after Chris Waller’s plans to buy the gelding were undone by a failed veterinary examination. The now three-year-old arrives at Rosehill – Waller’s training base in the city – via Port Macquarie, where he is among Tas Morton’s small… Read More »
Punters can expect to see a lot more of She Knows after the filly returned from a five-week break to win the Highway Handicap at Randwick. The three-year-old tired to the line in the Saturday race over 1100 metres but held on by a half-length to beat I Am Capitan,… Read More »
The man who has ridden more winners in Australia than any other jockey has added one of special significance at Randwick. Robert Thompson has combined with his good friend, trainer Rod Northam, to claim Saturday’s $200,000 Anniversary Highway (1400m) for country-trained horses on the support program for the $10 million… Read More »
Prolific Highway Handicap winner Matthew Dunn broke new ground at Randwick, nailing the trifecta the first time he had entered three runners in the race for country-trained horses. The concept’s most successful trainer, Dunn secured his 12th victory on Saturday when Bronzed Venom ($13) overhauled the favourite Cascata Rossa ($2.30)… Read More »
Cameron Crockett has taken a measured approach with Mar Nero leading into the Highway Handicap at Randwick. The seven-year-old came to the Mudgee trainer as a 19-start maiden with a habit of missing the start and has won three races under Crockett. After the mare finished third at the start… Read More »
Punters have thrown their weight behind Don’t Give A Damn and been rewarded with the four-year-old putting a space on his opposition in the Highway Handicap at Rosehill. Backed from $1.80 to $1.65 in Saturday’s 1500m-event, Don’t Give A Damn hit the front in the straight and strode clear for… Read More »
Plans to chase the Anniversary Highway Handicap in Sydney have been shelved for Snitz despite strong win at Doomben on Saturday. Snitz, the $1.55 favourite, made it two wins in a row when he cruised home to beat Meikas ($18) by 1-1/4 lengths in the Herron Todd White Handicap. Trainer… Read More »
A horse his jockey describes as ditzy has set himself up for a big pay day by winning the Highway Handicap at Rosehill. Saturday’s win was Suncraze’s second consecutive win in races for country-trained horses and puts him in the running for the $200,000 Anniversary Highway at Randwick on October… Read More »
Melissa Dennett will take her first runner to Sydney for the Highway Plate at Rosehill although the fledgling Tamworth trainer is hardly venturing into the unknown. Dennett only took out her trainers’ licence in April and her solitary winner, Kentuckian, scored at the Talmoi picnic races last month, but Dennett… Read More »
Mick Miladinovic admits Gentle Annie has been fast-tracked into Highway Handicap racing amid uncertainty over the future eligibility of Canberra-trained horses. As Racing NSW considered changing Canberra’s status from country to provincial in a move that would bar horses in the area from contesting the $60,000 races, Miladinovic thought time… Read More »
Zamex has unleashed another staggering finish to graduating from the Highway Handicap class with ease at Rosehill. Despite trailing the leaders by five lengths with 200m left on the first heavy track he had encountered, the $2.80 Sportsbet favourite stormed home on Saturday to beat O’Lordy ($12) by half a… Read More »
A week after Nictock ran third in a Highway Handicap, Mudgee trainer Cameron Crockett is throwing stablemate The Frick into the deep end on a wet track at Rosehill. Crockett has applied the same philosophy to the four-year-old’s Highway debut on Saturday as he did when younger stablemate Nictock stepped… Read More »
