Horse Racing News
Promising mare to take Flight at Randwick races
Joe Pride has no doubt In Flight has the potential to develop into a stakes-class sprinter and the mare will be given an opportunity to earn her way back into that grade via a benchmark race at Randwick. The four-year-old had her first taste of black-type level in the Listed Starlight Stakes...
Peak still to come for maiden winner
Peter Moody has high hopes for Reach The Peak who broke through for his maiden win on the Caulfield Heath. Moody, who trains in partnership with Katherine Coleman, believes the three-year-old, a son of Grunt, could be a potential Derby contender come the middle of next year following his win in the Sportsbet...
Tricolours stick to ‘Wright formula in BJ McLachlan Stakes
Tricolours Racing and Tulloch Lodge will be out to debunk the theory that lightning doesn’t strike twice with The Playwright in Saturday’s BJ McLachlan Stakes at Eagle Farm. Tricolours won the $300,000 Group 3 in 2022 with The Novelist who, like The Playwright, is by Written By out of a daughter of...
Full siblings on show for Thompson and Taits
It is not often that full relations compete at the same meeting on the same afternoon but siblings Jojo Was A Man and California Grass are set to join that rare club at Randwick. Both by Al Maher out of Jo Jo Girl, the brother and sister will step out in vastly different...
Harry Coffey out to improve on Summer record
Harry Coffey is making a hit-and-run trip to the Gold Coast to partner Arabian Summer at the inaugural meeting run under lights. Arabian Summer runs in the GC100 3YO Plate (1000m) on Friday night as a lead-up to the Magic Millions Sunlight 3YO Plate (1100m), also under lights at the Gold Coast on...
Ciaron Maher chasing third Pakenham Cup success
The Ciaron Maher stable will saddle three hopes at it chases back-to-back victories in the Pakenham Cup. Maher won the 2500m Listed race with Ashrun back in March after the race was not run in 2023 as Racing Victoria tinkered with race dates. But with the Cranbourne Turf Club and Pakenham Racing Club merging...
Neasham, Archibald go far and wide including one in WA for the Ted Van Heemst Stakes
With runners at seven different venues across four states on Saturday, Sydney trainers Annabel Neasham and Rob Archibald are in for a hectic afternoon, and it will culminate on the other side of the country. The pair have horses competing at Randwick, Wyong and Dubbo in NSW, Pakenham in Victoria, and...
Dry weather keeps Our Kobison in Sydney
Queensland’s spate of wet weather has prompted a change of plans for smart sprinter Our Kobison and Sydney racing is set to be the beneficiary. Trainer Angela Davies had initially intended to run the gelding in the Magic Millions Falvelon (1200m) in Brisbane this weekend with a view to next month’s Magic Millions...
Diddle Dumpling poised for Magic Millions litmus test
It took Diddle Dumpling nine starts to break her maiden, but with the form out of that race stacking up, trainers Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou are optimistic she can go on with the job. The three-year-old started a short-priced favourite when she comfortably accounted for her eight rivals to score at...
Rascal out to make his mark in the Pakenham Cup
The Mark Walker stable is banking on a change of scenery and a name change bringing out the best of a stable newcomer in the Pakenham Cup. Former Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained King Of The Castle has had a change of name to I’m A Dirty Rascal and runs for the first...
