Randwick Guineas big guns Rebel Dane, Proisir and It’s A Dundeel will start from inside barriers in the Group One race at Warwick Farm on Saturday. When the draw for the $500,000 feature was completed, Rebel Dane drew the rails, It’s A Dundeel was allocated barrier two and Proisir came… Read More »
Bjorn Baker admits he doesn’t know much about new stable acquisition Betrayal, but he likes what he sees. Formerly trained by Gai Waterhouse, Betrayal has his first start for Baker at Canterbury on Wednesday. Just 18 months after setting up a base at Warwick Farm, the New Zealander has established… Read More »
A sparkling work-out by Rebel Dane at Warwick Farm on Tuesday has reinforced trainer Gary Portelli’s confidence heading into the Randwick Guineas. The colt made the leap into elite company in the Group Two Hobartville Stakes when he ran Pierro to a short head and the winner’s absence from the… Read More »
Nash Rawiller will honour his commitment to More Joyous in the Canterbury Stakes despite the expected presence of star colt Pierro. Rawiller said he did not have to make a choice between the Gai Waterhouse-trained stablemates having already committed to More Joyous on whom he has won seven Group One… Read More »
It’s a Dundeel will have an important gear change in Saturday’s Randwick Guineas and will wear blinkers for the first time. Trainer Murray Baker decided the race was the ideal one to test the blinkers in an attempt to get It’s A Dundeel to settle a little closer to the… Read More »
The absence of star colts Pierro and All Too Hard from the Randwick Guineas has thrown Saturday’s Group One race open with Chris Waller to field two leading chances. Pierro, winner of the Hobartville Stakes, will take on older horses in the Canterbury Stakes a week later while All Too… Read More »
Glamour three-year-old Pierro will miss the Randwick Guineas and will make his next Sydney autumn carnival appearance against older horses, the Gai Waterhouse stable has confirmed. “The plan at this stage is not to run in the Guineas and he will be saved for the Canterbury Stakes,” Tulloch Lodge spokesman… Read More »
It wasn’t quite as easy as last year, but Shoot Out still got the job done in Saturday’s Chipping Norton Stakes to win the first Group One race of the Sydney autumn. It took until the last stride for Shoot Out, the $4 favourite, to catch up to Monton ($31)… Read More »
Hong Kong-based Brett Prebble is chasing a Group One double in Melbourne on Saturday but is also looking to make an impact in Sydney, starting with the Randwick Guineas ride on Ferlax. Prebble has picked up the ride on last week’s Australian Guineas winner in the Group One Randwick Guineas… Read More »
Nash Rawiller has lodged an appeal against the severity of a careless riding suspension from the Australian Turf Club’s meeting at Newcastle on Wednesday. Stewards outed Rawiller for five meetings over an incident in the third race at the midweek city meeting at provincial track. He is free to ride… Read More »
Nash Rawiller will miss the Group One Randwick Guineas meeting and possibly the ride on star colt Pierro after being suspended for careless riding at Newcastle. The top jockey was outed for five meetings for shifting in aboard Ivanhoe in the third race when not clear of Jay Ford’s mount… Read More »
The two highest-profile colts in the country will run in different states on Saturday. But another showdown in Sydney between Pierro and All Too Hard looms as a potential carnival highlight in the coming weeks. All Too Hard’s co-trainer Wayne Hawkes confidently declared this week that he would love to… Read More »
A first-up clash between barn mates Pierro and Proisir in Saturday’s Hobartville Stakes has proven to be a boon for jockey Hugh Bowman. Nash Rawiller was aboard the Gai Waterhouse-trained Proisir in four of his five starts last campaign, missing only the Cox Plate in which the colt finished eighth…. Read More »
The question of whether to race Tougher Than Ever on a seven-day back-up is almost as difficult as where to do it. The three-year-old put up a stirling performance against older horses in appalling conditions to run second to surprise winner Alma’s Fury in Saturday’s Apollo Stakes at Warwick Farm…. Read More »
Trainer Gary Portelli’s already high opinion of the unbeaten Rebel Dane has been revised upwards following the colt’s come-from-behind win in the Royal Sovereign Stakes at Rosehill. After a slow start to the Group Two race, Rebel Dane ($3.10) came out last of the nine runners and that’s where he… Read More »
All Too Hard confirmed at Caulfield on Saturday there may only be one horse in Australia better than him – and that’s his sister. Which means there are very few in the world who rate more highly. In his first start since finishing second in the Cox Plate last October,… Read More »
The Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival kicks off this weekend with the running of the Group 2 Expressway Stakes at Warwick Farm racecourse. Throughout the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival there is a total of twenty one Group 1 races including the Golden Slipper Stakes, The BMW, AJC Australian Derby, TJ Smith Stakes and the Doncaster Handicap. View… Read More »
Unbeaten colt Rebel Dane will take on older horses when he kicks off his autumn Classic campaign at Rosehill on Saturday. Trainer Gary Portelli has earmarked an 1100m Benchmark 85 as the starting point for Rebel Dane who showed his readiness with a sparking barrier trial win earlier this month…. Read More »
Victoria Derby winner Fiveandahalfstar will do his early autumn racing in Melbourne with the Australian Cup a likely target. The gelding made his first public appearance since the Derby at Thursday’s Randwick barrier trials and pleased trainer Anthony Cummings with his fourth in a 740m heat. “He wasn’t out to… Read More »
The Randwick Guineas will be switched to Warwick Farm next year but the Australian Turf Club will stage the track’s remaining Group One races at headquarters. Darren Pearce, chief executive of the ATC, said the decision had been made to allow builders working on the reconstruction of Randwick an extra… Read More »
