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Trainer Steve Asmussen had won the Frizette Stakes at Belmont Park three times before this year, winning impressively with My Miss Aurelia (2011), Nickname (2015), and Wicked Whisper (2019), all of whom went on to successful racing careers, with My Miss Aurelia winning the Grey Goose Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies en route to being voted champion 2YO filly. His fourth winner in the Frizette, Echo ...
As one of the leading consignors at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sales for almost 20 years, there is a certain level of expectation about the Highclere Stud draft. This time, there will be no shortage of poignance either, with an Almanzor half-brother to champion miler Palace Pier among 23 individuals under inspection. hat Kingman colt, sold here for 600,000 guineas (US$824,859) thr ...
Now, more than ever before, there is a genuine scarcity factor around yearlings by Galileo. Prospective purchasers will have 14 lots by the 12-time champion sire to choose from Oct. 5 at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, including a particularly well-credentialed youngster from the Cumani family's Fittocks Stud. The colt is the third foal out of Koora, a homebred daughter of Pivota ...
Hugh Bowman went home to his family on Saturday night as only the fourth jockey in Australian history to have won 100 times at Gr.1 level. But all his 6YO daughter Paige wanted to know – and it wasn’t that – way if he had a trophy for her. As she jumped enthusiastically into his arms, Hugh assured her that indeed he did have one. “It’s all very humbling to be honest, at my stage of life, whether ...
It’s all roads to the $15m TAB Everest now for Tommy Berry and Masked Crusader after a Chautauqua-like last to first win at Randwick on Saturday. The grey wasn’t able to win an Everest in its inaugural running back in 2017 and while Masked Crusader reminded everyone of what he can do in winning the Gr.2 $500,000 ACY Securities Premiere Stakes (1200m) Berry can only hope the cards fall his way aga ...
There’s nothing like a Gr.1 double on one of the Sydney spring’s signature days to give a jockey a kick along and Regan Bayliss is now eyeing the two biggest prizes – the TAB Everest and Golden Eagle. Bayliss was on Sunday confirmed as the rider of The Inferno in the $15m TAB Everest (1200m) on October 16 and he’ll retain his Epsom-winning ride on Private Eye in the $7.5m Golden Eagle (1500m) two ...
Joe Tizzard is confident last season's disappointing campaign at Venn Farm can be left in the past, with a wealth of untapped equine potential in the wings and Brendan Powell joining a team of top riders at the yard's disposal. Powell is to be given "plenty of rides" as he, alongside Harry Cobden and Jonjo O'Neill Jnr, will share the majority of jockey duties for the Dorset stable. Robbie Power h ...
Flemington would be split into five sections under the bold plan tabled by the Victoria Racing Club to have up to 11,500 spectators on course for this year’s Melbourne Cup Carnival. The club, which wrote to members on Wednesday outlining its initial Cup Carnival crowd plan which was tabled to the Victorian State Government, would need to use the 'full expanses of Flemington' to house those patron ...
Coolmore and Godolphin may look to use their respective Everest slots on the Heritage Stakes (1100m) quinella as Home Affairs led throughout in class-record time to defeat Paulele. Both 3YO colts drifted in betting but defied market trends with respectable efforts in the Listed race at Rosehill. Coolmore's Home Affairs ($6.50) burned to the lead from barrier nine-under Nash Rawiller, running his ...
The Inferno Holy Roman Emperor and Mascarpone Shooting To Win dealt Westbury Stud a winning trans-Tasman Gr.2 double over the weekend with the former a shining example of how a change of plan can come up trumps. Westbury Stud-bred both The Inferno and Mascarpone and sold the pair at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale in a 2018 draft that has provided seven black-type graduates, inclu ...