Always First Past The Post
The one thing missing from Te Akau Shark’s resume is a Group One win and the star New Zealander gets the chance to put that right at Te Rapa. Placed in the Epsom Handicap and Cox Plate in the spring, Te Akau Shark runs in Saturday’s BCD Group Sprint (1400m) ahead of a return to […]
Mirage Dancer will take a step back in time when he runs first-up in the Group One CF Orr Stakes at Caulfield. Saturday’s race over 1400m will be the first time Mirage Dancer has raced shorter than 2000m since his debut win in the UK in 2016. That two-year-old race at Doncaster was over seven […]
Favourite Cellsabeel has shortened to $1.50 after drawing barrier five for the $2 million Inglis Millennium for two-year-olds at Warwick Farm. The filly is one of a host of winning two-year-olds in the Ciaron Maher and David Eustace stable and is the favourite for next month’s $3.5 million Golden Slipper. Although the prize money from […]
The prospect of a heavy track at Warwick Farm is the unknown factor for trainer Tony McEvoy as he prepares stakes-winning filly Xilong for the $1 million Inglis Sprint. Xilong has won four of her six starts including the Listed Twilight Glow Stakes (1400m) at Sandown at the end of her spring campaign. McEvoy, who […]
Melbourne Cup winner Vow And Declare will take another step towards an autumn return with an important barrier trial at Cranbourne. Vow And Declare’s Cup-winning jockey Craig Williams takes the ride in the trial over 1190m on Tuesday morning. Trainer Danny O’Brien is in the United States for the Super Bowl but is in constant […]
Having recorded two Group One handicap victories during the spring, Fierce Impact will now try to add a weight-for-age victory at the highest level. Trained at Warwick Farm by Matthew Smith, Fierce Impact is one of 17 horses nominated for the first Group One race of 2020, the weight-for-age C F Orr Stakes (1400m) at […]
While trainer Chris Waller has an anxious few days waiting for tests on star colt Yes Yes Yes, the best filly in his stable is ready to race. Funstar is likely to begin her campaign earlier than planned with Waller citing the Group Two Light Fingers Stakes on February 15 as a new starting point. […]
Two of Victoria’s biggest stables are set to dominate the field for the state’s richest two-year-old race, the Blue Diamond Stakes. After third acceptances last week for the $1.5 million Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield on February 22, the Ciaron Maher and David Eustace stable has 17 of the 90 juveniles still in contention. Maher […]
Star colt Yes Yes Yes will undergo a thorough veterinary examination on an injured leg before he returns with betting suspended on his upcoming races. Trainer Chris Waller had planned to give the Everest winner a race day gallop at Randwick on Saturday but that was canned when the colt was found to have inflammation […]
Trainer Grahame Begg believes Nonconformist can keep stepping up after the progressive three-year-old backed up a recent big-margin maiden win with a first city victory. Nonconformist broke his maiden at his third start with a six-length win at Pakenham last month over 1600m before accounting for a small field by 2-1/2-lengths at a rain-sodden Caulfield […]
