Kris Lees will discuss the options with Smart Melody’s owners but says it’s likely the unbeaten filly will progress to the Group One Thousand Guineas for which she is favourite. If she runs in the race in Melbourne on October 13 she will need a new jockey with Brenton Avdulla… Read More »
Smart Melody has maintained her unbeaten record with a strong on-pace victory in the Thousand Guineas Prelude at Caulfield. Jumping from 1100m to 1400m on Sunday, Smart Melody was sent off the $2.10 favourite and scoring a length victory over Thrillster ($15) in the Group Three-race. Smart Melody’s stablemate, El… Read More »
A couple of ripping runners from the Flight Stakes (1600m) at Randwick have firmed in the TAB Sportsbets all in market for the Thousand Guineas (1600m). Fiesta loomed very large to win but just couldn’t quite see out the strong mile when beaten a lip by Oohood. Still, she is… Read More »
A filly from the Apple Isle has been the real notable horse high up in the all in market for the Thousand Guineas (1600m) following the racing from Saturday. Mystic Journey, trained in Tassie by Adam Trinder scored a most impressive win in the inaugural running of the Jim Moloney… Read More »
Connections of Mystic Journey will consider a late entry for the Group One Thousand Guineas after the Tasmanian filly raced to a convincing win in a Listed race at Caulfield. Mystic Journey had been a luckless fifth at Moonee Valley at her most recent start last month and trainer Adam… Read More »
Trainer Phillip Stokes says the Jim Moloney Stakes at Caulfield will determine the spring path of Assertive Play. Options after Saturday are the Thousand Guineas at Caulfield next month or a freshen for shorter course races. After winning her first two starts at Morphettville over 1050m and 1100m in June,… Read More »
Seabrook has been given the tick of approval by race jockey Damien Oliver ahead the Golden Rose at Rosehill. The Mick Price-trained galloper is the only filly in Saturday’s 11-horse Group One Golden Rose over 1400m for three-year-olds. Seabrook is also aiming to become the first filly to win since… Read More »
Smart Melody produced one of the wins of the day at Flemington on Saturday and is now the favourite in the TAB’s all in market for the Thousand Guineas (1600m). The Kris Lees trained filly was having her first look in Melbourne and was down the Flemington straight but she… Read More »
Kris Lees-trained stablemates Smart Melody and Miss Fabulass have emerged from midweek wins to favouritism for separate Group One fillies’ races. Smart Melody’s win in the Listed Cap D’Antibes at Flemington on Saturday has her at $3.50 for the Thousand Guineas at Caulfield on October 13 while the regally bred… Read More »
Brenton Avdulla sacrificed a full book of rides in Sydney to partner a three-year-old filly he regards as pretty special. Smart Melody lived up to Avdulla’s lofty expectations taking out the Listed Cap D’Antibes Stakes (1100m) at Flemington on Saturday. A heavily backed favourite firming from $2.80 into $2.25, Smart… Read More »
Tough Caloundra filly Baccarat Baby showed she won’t be out of place in Group One company in Sydney with her strong win at Doomben. Baccarat Baby ($4.20) made it five wins in a row when she came from last to beat Ailecah ($6.50) by three-quarters of a length with a… Read More »
Multaja has lost her unbeaten record but the talented filly gets the chance to bounce back to winning ways in the Listed Cap D’Antibes Stakes at Flemington. The Godolphin-owned filly was a dominant winner of her first two starts at Werribee and Moonee Valley, either side of a spell, before… Read More »
One of the country’s most promising fillies, Pure Elation, has sustained a knee injury. Pure Elation held a nomination for next month’s Thousand Guineas in Melbourne but Racing Victoria stewards reported on the filly would not race again in the spring. An impressive winner of the Group Two Furious Stakes… Read More »
Newcastle trainer Kris Lees is favouring keeping unbeaten Smart Melody against her own sex when the filly makes her Melbourne debut at Flemington. Lees has nominated Smart Melody for the Listed Cap D’Antibes (1100m) for three-year-old fillies on Saturday as well as the Group Two Danehill Stakes (1200m) which is… Read More »
How Outback Barbie performs at her first test beyond 1200 metres will determine the rest of her so far luckless campaign. The filly’s career has been littered with hard luck tales including her two runs this Sydney spring when second in the Group Two Silver Shadow Stakes and fifth in… Read More »
Impressive wins from both Thrillster and Golden Halo has seen them shoot to the top of the Thousand Guineas betting with Sportsbet. The Team Corstens trained Thrillster scored a narrow but sharp win at Moonee Valley in the Atlantic Jewel and she is now at $11 at the top of… Read More »
Thrillster has emerged as a potential Golden Rose contender with her victory in a stakes race at Moonee Valley. The victory was a welcome change of luck for father-and-son training partners Leon and Troy Corstens with Thrillster’s victory in Saturday’s Atlantic Jewel Stakes. “We’ve had a bit of a bad… Read More »
Assertive Play’s introduction to Melbourne racing will give trainer Phillip Stokes a clearer picture on whether the unbeaten Adelaide filly is a Thousand Guineas contender. “It’s a really tough year this year. I think there’s a lot of good three-year-olds,” Stokes said. “We will head her that way, but if… Read More »
After an encouraging season return in the Quezette Stakes, talented filly Thrillster will be out to further enhance her Thousand Guineas credentials in the Listed Atlantic Jewel Stakes at Moonee Valley. Thrillster was third to Sunlight in the Group Three Quezette (1100m) first-up at Caulfield on August 18. It was… Read More »
Debut winner Alexandra Dreaming is on target for her first attempt at a stakes race at Moonee Valley but trainer Henry Dwyer is likely to delay Group One-placed stablemate Snitty Kitty’s return for a few weeks. Dwyer plans to start three-year-old filly Alexandra Dreaming in Saturday’s Listed Atlantic Jewel Stakes… Read More »
