Father-and-son training team Mark and Levi Kavanagh has been quietly developing First Immortal into a potential stayer of the future. After two victories at 2000 metres, the time has come to test the three-year-old at …

Liam Howley will kick off the Australian career of former New Zealand mare Silverina at Flemington. Group 2 placed during her eight-start career in New Zealand, Silverina runs in the Leilani Series Final (1400m) on Saturday. Silverina has not raced …

Tulloch Lodge filly Taormina could be aimed at the early spring carnival races after she upstaged some well-related juveniles to make a winning debut at Warwick Farm. Co-trainer Adrian Bott said the …

In his first ride since the death of his father Peter, Beau Mertens has scored an emotional victory aboard Anahita at Sandown. A seven-time Group 1 winning jockey, Peter Mertens died following a battle …

Chris and Michael Gangemi have walked down this path before, but this time the brothers and co-trainers hope the trek might be a little different. Their enigmatic gelding and yearling …

Albury trainer Mitchell Beer breathed a heavy sigh of relief when Blake Shinn elected to start his suspension after the upcoming Flemington meeting. Beer had already booked the in-form jockey to partner Mnementh in the …

Scott Collings is excited about where Mogo Magic might take those associated with the Duporth gelding, but he won’t let that impact his first-up ambitions with his stable star this weekend. The …

Fresh from his fairytale finish at his last Royal Ascot meeting, Frankie Dettori has confirmed he will have one final crack at winning the Melbourne Cup. The legendary Italian jockey, who …

This time last week Matthew Sayers was confident he had a horse who might start favourite in the $175,000 Listed Taj Rossi Series Final at Flemington. Bolted In, the most …

Every Winter, the Listed VRC-CRV Winter Championship Final (1600m) is a great race on a big day of Finals racing at Flemington. It will be a task to even make …

Matthew Hoysted is doing his best to get Saturday’s Tattersall’s Tiara out of his head and the Eagle Farm trainer is pleased that he has feature racing to focus on this …

The G3 Winx Guineas (1600m) for the 3yos contains some in form younger horses like Grebeni ($4.80), Robusto ($8) and Flashing Steel ($12) all in good touch plus the very interesting runner becomes …

Ben Pearce expects further improvement and believes the best is yet to come from Fear The Wind after the gelding’s winning spree continued at Belmont. A son 2013 Melbourne Cup …

Trainers Robbie Griffiths and Mathew de Kock are not concerned that King Magnus missed a start in the final heat of the VRC-CRV Winter Championship Series. A bad blood picture taken days before …

The autumn didn’t go to plan for Buenos Noches, but trainer Matthew Smith is hoping the talented sprinter can make up for lost time this spring. The colt was among the …

It has taken patience and perseverance to get Super Strike back near his best, but the wait has been worthwhile with the horse finally breaking a two-and-a-half-year winning drought at Randwick. …