He isn’t the best horse Tracey Bartley has put a saddle on, but McCormack does have a claim to fame. The six-year-old’s last win was almost two years ago when he claimed the scalp of subsequent Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner Think It Over in a benchmark race at Randwick. While McCormack struggled for… Read More »
Less than 12 months after welcoming the first horses through his stable, Blake Ryan will saddle up his first metropolitan runner and fittingly, it will be at Rosehill. The son of prominent horseman Gerald Ryan, Blake spent many years working for his father at the western Sydney track while also establishing a… Read More »
With black type racing on his resume, Easy Campese will face one of his easiest assignments to date, when he contests Saturday’s Midway Handicap at Kembla Grange. After a gutsy first-up performance that saw the son of Sidestep stick on gamely for third behind the smart Ma And Pa, Sydney… Read More »
David Payne has never doubted the ability of Obvious Step, but her racing manners have been a constant source of frustration. She showed enough to be tested in black-type grade as a three-year-old and wasn’t disgraced when beaten two lengths by subsequent Group 1 winner Forbidden Love in last year’s Reginald Allen… Read More »
Trainer Gary Moore is confident his speedy Prince Invincible will be too hard to catch in Saturday’s Midway Handicap at Kembla Grange. The four-year-old son of I am Invincible lines up as a live chance in tomorrow’s Midway after a comprehensive 3.5L demolition job at Wyong in his last outing…. Read More »
Hailing from the same family as two Oaks winners, it is little surprise Go Gazza has begun to find form since being stepped up in journey. Bought by Mark Minervini for $45,000 at the 2019 Adelaide Magic Millions sale just months prior to the trainer’s relocation from South Australia to… Read More »
Warwick Farm-based trainer Gary Portelli has pulled the right rein with Lord Zoulander ($10) in the Randwick Midway, opting for a quick back-up after disappointing in last week’s edition. Only seven days ago the Zoustar progeny was beaten almost ten lengths in the newly created race, but Portelli knew he was a… Read More »
The Jekyll and Hyde of Gary Portelli’s stable, Lord Zoulander constantly leaves his trainer guessing. He cannot be certain which version of Lord Zoulander will turn up at Randwick but trainer Gary Portelli has his fingers crossed that it’s the competitive one. The five-year-old mixes his form and while a… Read More »
Having captured a slice of history by winning the inaugural Midway Handicap, trainer Gregory Hickman will attempt to maintain his perfect strikerate with two entries in Saturday’s edition at Randwick. At first glance, his charges present with very different profiles, Get The Idea being a relatively lightly-raced gelding still improving, while Epic… Read More »
Gosford-based trainer Adam Duggan is set to saddle-up his first runner in the Midway, with Miss Fox nominated for the Benchmark 72 (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday. The Midway was introduced in early July for small to medium-sized provincial and metropolitan stables and boasts $100,000 in prizemoney. Miss Fox has built a… Read More »
After narrowly missing out in the first Midway Handicap, Wyong trainer Damien Lane was thrilled to capture the second with on-pace filly Zorocat. The Lane-trained Just Field was denied by Our Bellagio Miss in the inaugural running of the race last weekend, but Zorocat made her own luck on the speed to go… Read More »
As somebody who pushed for provincial trainers to be offered similar opportunities to their country counterparts, Theresa Bateup is rapt to see the introduction of Midway Handicap races on Saturdays. While she didn’t have a runner in the inaugural edition last week, which was won by the Greg Hickman-trained Our Bellagio… Read More »
The inaugural running of the Midway Handicap has been taken out by the Greg Hickman-trained Our Bellagio Miss. Greg Hickman feared the Midway Handicap was setting up so well for Our Bellagio Miss that something was sure to go awry but he need not have worried as the mare outclassed her rivals… Read More »
Not surprisingly, the first Midway Handicap, which will take place at Rosehill tomorrow, has attracted a full field of runners. Back in February, as part of their $20 million prize-money increases, Racing NSW announced the introduction of Midway races … a new race concept with prize money worth $100 000… Read More »
