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On Boxing Day she won the Gr.1 Zabeel Classic (2000m) at Ellerslie with Concert Hall, and on Wednesday the Graeme and Debbie Rogerson-trained Beauden won the Taupo Cup (2000m) emphatically in front of a bumper crowd. The son of Bullbars began well from barrier six for jockey Ryan Elliot to settle outside early pacemaker Mongolianconqueror. Elliot let his charge loose at the 600m marks and he quic ...
Fleetwood Maca will be vying for her coronation at Ellerslie on New Year’s Day when she contests the Gr.2 Valachi Downs Royal Stakes (2000m). The Michael Moroney and Pam Gerard-trained filly will back-up after a bold runner-up performance in the Gr.2 Eight Carat Classic (1600m) at the Auckland track on Boxing Day. TAB bookmakers have installed Fleetwood Maca as a $3.80 joint-favorite with Il Affa ...
A huge syndicate of Tricolours Racing owners had a reason for post-Christmas celebrations when their talented Star Witness mare Threeood scored a valuable victory in the Gr.3 Bell of the Turf Stakes (1600m) at Gosford on Tuesday. Originally trained in Victoria by Mick Price, Threeood was switched to Joe Pride in 2019 and he has done a great job nurturing her through her classes with this assignme ...
A well-bred recent stable recruit for Ash and Amy Yargi is presented with an excellent opportunity to exit maiden company at Werribee on Wednesday. The holster was purchased for $240,000 by Hawkes Racing from the 2018 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale. His grand dam is dual Gr.1 winner Tristalove who produced 2001 Spring Champion Stakes winner Viking Ruler and 2003 VRC Derby runner-up Kempinsky. The so ...
Pakenham has been named Victoria’s top-selling suburb of 2020 but its racing club has not enjoyed such levels of popularity in a quirk that has champion trainer Peter Moody puzzled. Moody and Phillip Stokes are the highest-profile trainers to call the Pakenham Racing Club home and, whilst its location at Tynong are not attractive to some, the 56-time Group 1 winning trainer says its potential sho ...
Lingering issues with the turf and ongoing uncertainty for participants has prompted Racing Victoria, Country Racing Victoria, and the Seymour Racing Club to announce a complete reconstruction of the much-maligned country track. Seymour has encountered regular issues around stability and consistency of year-round performance following a $6 million redevelopment in 2015-16, drawing criticism and f ...
Enver Jusufovic is trying something different with stable favourite Neighbourhood as both trainer and horse chase a maiden Stakes win in Friday’s Standish Handicap (1200m) at Flemington. The Gr.3 feature only recently came onto the radar for the talented five-year-old, who was set to be aimed at black-type mares races during Tasmania’s Summer Carnival. But so slick was her piece of work earlier i ...
John McArdle is happy to take a patient approach with the summer campaigns of Hydro Star and Drone Strike, who could both be scratched from Caulfield on Saturday. The talented 3YO feature in the final field for the Erin Coldham Handicap (1100m) but their Mornington trainer said neither were certainties to race first-up. There is an option for Drone Strike to be saved for a race down the straight ...
The auction is show-stopping affair has once again the crème of the ‘early fast’ type yearlings. In seven heart-stopping days of trade at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale that kicks off on Jan. 12, the bloodstock world's attention will be focused on a catalogue of potential future stars of the sales ring, racecourse, and breeding ranks. Although the Queensland border is closed to indiv ...
Sharjah Longines Racecourse staged its final meeting of 2020 on Saturday afternoon, saving the best to last, the only Thoroughbred contest, the HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Cup, concluding the card. A 2000m handicap, it looked ultra-competitive on paper, but in reality very few of the 11 runners ever managed to get seriously involved with Edaraat making the running stalked by Tailor’s Ro ...