Nik's Horse Racing Blog

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Ciaron Maher is planning on his Cox Plate winner Sir Dragonet becoming the pre-eminent weight-for-age performer in the country at a middle distance. Maher said the style of Sir Dragonet’s Cox Plate win at what was the former Irish galloper’s Australian debut suggested it was an attainable goal. “That was a star-studded Cox Plate field […]

Frankel entire Significance has continued his summer form surge and added valuable black-type to his pedigree with a dominant display in the Christmas Cup at Randwick. Bred to southern hemisphere time, Significance sold for $1.1 million at the 2018 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale where he was purchased by Domeland. Clare Cunningham took over his training […]

Symon Wilde believes in-form mare Tralee Rose could be a stayer of the future and that is why he regards her Flemington assignment as imperative. Wilde will run Tralee Rose over 2530 metres in the Brew Stayers Trophy on Saturday when she will be trying to take her record to four wins from as many […]

Less than two months after snapping up Turboart at a Ready To Race sale, Annabel Neasham will saddle up the youngster in the $500,000 Inglis Nursery. A son of first season sire Flying Artie, Neasham paid $140,000 for the half-brother to stakes winner Petits Filous and says he has done everything right since joining the […]

Long considered one of the three big Randwick miles, the Villiers Stakes guarantees the winner a Doncaster Mile start but it has been left languishing in terms of prize money. With the introduction of a raft of $1 million races during the back-end of the Sydney spring, the $250,000 Villiers Stakes purse does not reflect […]

High-class New Zealanders The Chosen One, Quick Thinker and Aegon are set to campaign in Australia during the autumn with their trainers targeting feature races in Sydney and Melbourne. The trio returned to the stables of Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman this week and were reported to be in top order. The Chosen One spearheaded […]

Up-and-coming exciting colt Ellsberg could also be Magic Millions-bound after demolishing his rivals in Saturday’s Precise Air Handicap (1500m). Group placed in the Spring Stakes at Newcastle at his previous start, Ellsberg dominated throughout for Tim Clark, reviving memories of his sire Spill The Beans. Spill The Beans was also trained by Gerald Ryan and […]

OTI Racing’s Terry Henderson can’t wait to get back to the races next Saturday but he’s got to make a choice as to which venue he will attend. Henderson will have Attorney and Haky representing his team in the Listed Pakenham Cup while OTI Racing is the major sponsor of the Balnarring Cup picnic meeting, […]

Trainer Symon Wilde has had a memorable month and he is hoping it will build to a crescendo with a victory on his home turf of Warrnambool in the Jericho Cup, a race he is extra keen to win. Already this month Wilde has won 10 races, including the Sandown Guineas with Allibor and another […]

Trent Busuttin knows from personal experience the high standard of horse needed to win the Ladbrokes Plate for two-year-olds at The Valley and he is hopeful Gleneagles proves the right fit. Last year the Busuttin and Natalie Young stable produced Tagaloa to win the 1000 metre race and three months later he took out the […]