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Run for the first time at Flemington on Oaks Day, the $250,000 VRC Inglis Bracelet (1600m) drew a competitive field of mares with victory going to talented 4YO Pierro mare Rocha Clock, who made it a race to race double for her trainer John O’Shea. O’Shea also won the previous race, the VRC Off the Track Subzero Handicap (Benchmark 90) for all greys, with European import Berdibek (Fr), who carried ...
Willie Pike finished off his extended stay in Victoria with a most popular win when he guided home the hot odds-on favorite Written Beauty in the final race on Oaks Day on Thursday. Pike has been stationed in Victoria since mid-August primarily to ride the six visiting horses owned by prominent Western Australian owner Bob Peters but ended up winning a number of big races for other stables, inclu ...
Cousins Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig have scored their first Gr.1 win together as training partners after Damien Oliver guided Personal to victory in the $1 million VRC Kennedy Oaks (2500m) on Thursday. The original partnership of Hayes, Hayes, and Dabernig was restructured at the start of the season with the departure of principal David Hayes to Hong Kong, and after some close calls in G1s in rece ...
Not A Single Doubt’s Golden Slipper-winning son Farnanand the recently crowned 2019/20 Champion 2YO of the Yearopened his US$2.5 million juvenile career with a brilliant debut win at Canberra on 17 November. That was followed by success in the Wyong Magic Millions 2YO Classic RL “Adrian and I were very proud of him taking out the award,” says Gai Waterhouse. Jockey Hugh Bowman summed up Farnan’s ...
Trainer Rob Heathcote is careful when talking about his cherished stable star, Rothfire. “His prospects of returning to racing are guarded, with a long rehab period of 9 months he is a 50/50 chance of returning to full athletic function again. Fingers crossed.” Heathcote told Racenet his Gr. winner had so far recovered well from leg surgery “The surgeon, Randwick Equine specialist Hayley Lang, wa ...
Irish raider Twilight Payment under Jye McNeil has made his owner Lloyd Williams very happy after his dramatic 2020 Melbourne Cup win. Twilight Payment won ahead of Tiger Moth and Prince of Arran. While Kiwi raider The Chosen One in fourth. McNeil had made an early commitment to ride the galloper for Joseph O'Brien and his judgment proved perfect as he rated the pace to perfection on a horse that ...
A brilliant early spring 2YO that won the Listed ATC Breeders Plate on debut, Choisir developed into the best 3YO sprinter in the world under the guidance of astute Newcastle trainer Paul Perry. The charismatic chestnut son of Danehill Dancer made history in 2003 when traveling to the UK and winning both the Gr.2 King’s Stand Stakes (5f) and Gr.1 Golden Jubilee Stakes (6f) in the same week at Roy ...
Domestic graduates of the Magic Millions Gold Coast 2YO sale include recent Australian carnival stars Tyzone, Victorem, The Candy Man, and Krone, offers proven stakes results for buyers. Kranji based star Top Knight won the Singapore Derby – the third big race win for reigning Champion 3YO for his 2YOs in Training Sale buyer and owner KritChittaseni. During the breeze-ups, a colt by Exceed and Ex ...
Following the tragic loss of promising 2YO Hot ‘n’ Hazy that left his trainer Danny Williams devastated, Sydney based bloodstock agent James Harron made a pledge to find a replacement horse for Williams at the Ready2Race Sale. A promised that's been duly completed. Lot 37 has been given every chance to develop into a racehorse under the astute eye of Blake Ryan and was knocked down to James Harro ...
Godolphin has announced the retirement of the world's top turf performer in Ghaiyyath. The son of the outstanding Dubawi won the Autumn Stakes as a juvenile in 2017, will retire to Darley's Kildangan Stud in Ireland after showing signs of soreness following a routine piece of work. His other outstanding wins include the Prix du Prince d’Orange at three, and his sensational Gr.1 Grosser Preis von ...