Horse Racing News
RV to induct next generation of riders
Sage Duric, the daughter of Caulfield Cup winner Vlad Duric, is one of 11 riders who will officially be inducted as apprentice jockeys on Monday night at Moonee Valley. Duric is one of 11 members of the 2024 intake of Racing Victoria’s Apprentice Jockey Training Program. The 21-year-old is looking to follow...
Think It Over to resume in the Apollo Stakes
The path to another tilt at the Queen Elizabeth Stakes for 2022 winner Think It Over is set to begin in another Randwick weight-for-age race the grand campaigner also won two years ago. Trainer Kerry Parker is thrilled with the way his stable star is going in preparation for his first start of...
Fully Lit scores rich win in the Inglis Millennium
Tulloch Lodge has continued its incredible strikerate with two-year-olds, this time plundering the $2 million Inglis Millennium with unassuming colt Fully Lit. The stable has produced 12 individual juvenile winners this season and co-trainer Adrian Bott says Fully Lit will be considered for a start in the Blue Diamond Stakes in Melbourne...
Mr Brightside lands brutal G1 CF Orr Stakes
Mr Brightside had to call on all his fighting qualities to land victory in the first Group 1 race of the autumn at Caulfield. The C F Orr Stakes (1400m) on Saturday was turned into a war of attrition with the weight-for-age race run at a brutal tempo. Mr Brightside had been slow...
Foxy start to Australian Cup campaign
Trainers Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young learned one thing out of a failed trip to Ballarat that Foxy Cleopatra has an aversion to really wet tracks. Those conditions will not front Foxy Cleopatra when she returns from a break in the Group 3 T S Carlyon Cup (1600m) at Caulfield on Saturday. While Foxy...
Yellow Sam too strong in The Mystic Journey
Trainer Lindsey Smith enjoyed a quick hit and run mission to Hobart on Friday with progressive mare Yellow Sam taking out the Group 3 Mystic Journey Stakes. A winner of five of her 11 starts, Yellow Sam has gone to a new level this preparation and had no concern justifying her favouritism...
Castanya stamps herself on the Golden Slipper
Annabel Neasham will give Castanya every chance to earn her way into the Golden Slipper after the filly took an important step with a sweeping victory in the Listed Lonhro Plate at Randwick. The youngster’s performance franked the form of Slipper second favourite Switzerland, who she finished runner-up to on debut, while also...
Bodyguard blitzes rivals in the Blue Diamond Prelude
The Peter and Paul Snowden stable has strengthened their claims on capturing a first Blue Diamond Stakes together with a potential quartet of runners in the Group 1 race at Caulfield. Peter Snowden has won Melbourne’s premier juvenile race on three occasions and will chase a first with his son on February 24. Bodyguard entered...
Hayasugi to chase rare Blue Diamond treble
Hayasugi will attempt a rare feat when she chases Melbourne’s premier juvenile race at Caulfield. The Clinton Mcdonald-trained two-year-old will head to the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield on February 24 with the Blue Diamond Preview and the Blue Diamond Prelude already secured. No filly has achieved the feat since...
Caballus upstages classy field in Eskimo Prince Stakes
Bjorn Baker has labelled Caballus the second-best colt he has trained behind Ozzmosis after the three-year-old overcame a high-class field to win the Eskimo Prince Stakes at Randwick. Bought for $315,000 by syndicators Darby Racing as a tried horse, Caballus continued his perfect record for his new connections, adding Saturday’s Group 3 race to...
