Artie Schiller, the foundation sire of Mike Becker’s Stockwell Thoroughbreds, has sired Stockwell’s eleven-yearling draft heading to the Melbourne Gold sale. The son of El Prado (Sadler's Wells) has been a highly successful sire in spite of limited numbers and quality mares throughout his career. Maintaining his impressive 70% winner to runner ratio and better than 5% SW to starter rate with 54 i ...
Lost And Running has set himself as a definite A$15 million Everest contender after posting his most important win to date in the Listed Luskin Star Stakes. Trainer John O’Shea waiting to see which one of the Everest slot holders comes to court. Lost And Running took his record to six wins from seven starts, controlling the 1300m race from the front for Tommy Berry and flattening out over the fin ...
One of the key possibles for the A$15 million Everest Eduardo ended his season with a second Gr.1 win for trainer Joe Pride, with a front-running performance under Nash Rawiller in the A$1m TAB Doomben 10,000 (1200m). The Gr.1 Galaxy Stakes winner, led the 11-horse field from barrier six and rolled along in the lead but appeared in danger of being swamped at the 200-metre mark. However, he dug de ...
The son of Kuroshio Savatoxl proved himself yet again, claiming the Gr.1 Goodwood at Morphettville. The A$8,000 purchase, beat top Australian sprinters including Behemoth, who finished a disappointing seventh. The victory was the horse’s 16th of his career and it brought up a second Goodwood win for his co-trainer Tony McEvoy, who won two years ago with Despatch. A delighted McEvoy, who trains th ...
Emerald Kingdom, a last start winner of the Listed Sunshine Coast Cup goes head-to-head with Godolphin's Trekking in the Gr.2 Victory Stakes at Eagle Farm with a longer-term aim at the Stradbroke Handicap later in the season. Rob Heathcote's charge is a 6YO, but only lightly raced having been introduced to racing later in life. The 2021 Queensland Winter Racing Carnival was launched on Thursday a ...
A fresh and rejuvenated Night Raid has the Mick Price and Michael Kent Jr stable confident of a good performance in the Gr.1 Robert Sangster Stakes 2021. Other key contenders include Humma Humma, Rubisaki, Paul's Regret and Mizzy. She drew barrier 13 in the 17-horse field and Kent Jr said she profiles similarly to Secret Agenda (Not A Single Doubt), who won the race for Price in 2017. Night Raid ...
Sircconi (Nicconi) is being aimed at the Gr.1 Stradbroke Handicap and will take an important step towards that goal when he returns to track for the 1400m Sandown Hillside (Hcp), a race he headlines. He has been allotted 60 kilograms for the firstup assignment and trainer Nick Ryan said the gelding will not take his place if the track is too firm. Yesterday the track was rated soft, but warmer we ...
Moonee Valley Racing Club has decided to wait until Racing Victoria's Melbourne Cup report and recommendations for international competitors is released to finalise its wishlist of Cox Plate international runners. The findings and recommendations from the report, due today, could impact which horses are likely to fly to Australia for the Spring Carnival. The report, which has been completed by RV ...
Ballarat-based trainer Nigel Blackiston is recovering in hospital after a horse he was riding collapsed at trackwork while cantering a horse on the inside sand. . Blackiston's wife Susanna said the horse he was working with suddenly collapsed, dying after crashing through a rail and landing on top of Blackiston. She said his injuries include serious concussion and loss of vision in his right eye, ...
Trainer Gordon Richards was quite happy with his top sprinter Gytrash at the Morphettville the jump-outs that were part of his build-up to the Gr.1 Goodwood in May. The son of Lope De Vega, hit the line-locked together with the Phillip Stokes-trained Neodium. “He had only had one gallop before today and I didn’t want to knock him around too much,” Richards said. “It was more than enough to satisf ...