Trying to win a Group One race without the obvious benefit of a lead-up start while their horse gives weight to every runner is a test of skill for any …
Co-trainer Wayne Hawkes insists Chautauqua is the best horse in the Newmarket Handicap and that only bad luck can beat him. Chasing a first Newmarket Handicap success, Hawkes, who trains …
Rising Romance has twice gone close in Group One races at Flemington this season and David Hayes rates her the pick of his stable’s three runners in a competitive Australian …
Welcome rain has fallen at Flemington ahead of a Group One double header. With warm weather early in the week in the lead-up to the Flemington meeting on Saturday, the …
Five fillies have won the Coolmore Classic since 2000, the latest being Typhoon Tracy in 2009. Typhoon Tracy started favourite that year, just as Ghisoni, one of two fillies in …
Chautauqua on straight course to fourth Group 1. It’s hard to recall a more dominate galloper of Flemignton’s famous straight course races in recent times, than Chautauqua. He chalked up …
Stakeswinner Sacred Eye will run in the Phar Lap Stakes against her own age at Rosehill in preference to a Group Three race in Melbourne. Co-trainer David Hayes said three-year-old …
Hayes could continue romance with Australian Cup. It has to be one of David Hayes’ favourite races – the Australian Cup, and this Saturday he has a legitimate chance to …
Much like the Blamey Stakes (1600m), Sportsbet.com.au punters are backing several horses at decent odds to take out the Kewney Stakes (1400m) this Saturday at Flemington. Thousand Guineas placegetter Badawiya, …
Chautauqua is the $2.40 favourite to join a select group of horses to carry 58kg or more to victory in the Newmarket Handicap. Lightning Stakes winner Chautauqua headlines the field …
Calliope can prove her Gold Slipper credentials in the Magic Night Stakes at Rosehill after missing her scheduled lead-up. The Godolphin filly was scratched from the Reisling Stakes when she …
GROUP ONE COOLMORE CLASSIC 1500m, $600,000, Fillies and Mares HISTORY: * First race: 1973 (won by Miss Personality) * Notable winners: Princess Talaria (1978), Emancipation (1984), Skating (1993), Tuesday Joy …
Four-time Weetwood Handicap-winning trainer Kevin Kemp is looking to Kempelly to put himself in line for a third try at Toowoomba’s premier sprint. But first he needs a good performance …
The addition of blinkers to their race-day gear could propel the Tony Gollan-trained two-year-olds Social Conquest and Red Handle into stakes races in the coming weeks. The Gollan pair are …
Chris Waller is approaching the Coolmore Classic from a different angle to most Sydney Group One races he has targeted this season. Waller has had runners in eight of the …
A bruised and limping Winona Costin is confident she’ll be able to give everything she’s got when she rides Pearls in Saturday’s Coolmore Classic. The 21-year-old, Sydney’s champion apprentice last …
A tendon strain has ruled Mourinho out of the Australian Cup. Trainer Peter Gelagotis said the gelding has a slight strain to his left foreleg. “His (work) rider said he …
NEWMARKET HANDICAP 1200m, $1.25 million, handicap at Flemington HISTORY * First run in 1874 * Held at Caulfield in 2007 * Bart Cummings holds the training record with eight winners …
