The Bjorn Baker purchased and trained filly Twilight Royale took her earnings to almost eight times her yearling sale purchase price when winning the $250,000 Inglis Premier over 1200m at Mornington on Wednesday.
The benefits of Victoria’s lucrative new breeding and racing incentive scheme, VOBIS Gold, are already being shown with a significant spike in nominations for its mother scheme, Super VOBIS.
Australia’s top rated three-year-old colt All Too Hard collected another Group 1 victory at Caulfield on Saturday, adding the weight-for-age C.F. Orr Stakes over 1400m to his Caulfield Guineas win earlier this season.
Local trainer Jason Coyle isn’t one to get carried away but he says the 2013 Golden Slipper is a realistic aim for his smart Warwick Farm winner on Saturday, Va Pensiero.
You could have been forgiven for thinking the finish of the $120,000 Listed Kevin Hayes Stakes (1200m) was a Group 1 feature such was the enormous roar as Octavia held off a gallant Member’s Joy.
Racing Victoria (RV) today welcomed the start of racing’s newest event, the lucrative G1 Championship, at the stables of emerging star Callanish who begins his G1 assault in tomorrow’s opening leg, the Group 1 Sportingbet C.F. Orr Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield.
Caulfield Guineas winner All Too Hard heads an impressive list of 11 nominations for Saturday’s $400,000 Sportingbet C.F. Orr Stakes (1400m), the first leg of the G1 middle-distance championship.
Top filly Fuddle Dee Duddle will return from a spell in the next fortnight ahead of a Sydney campaign aimed at the $400,000 Inglis Guineas at Scone in May.
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After watching Black Caviar push herself through one of the most publicised exhibition gallops in Australian racing, Peter Moody had little doubt that his champion was back in town. Literally.
There will be a taste of what is to come when Australia’s unbeaten champion Black Caviar returns to the racetrack for an exhibition gallop at Caulfield this Saturday.
It's with a pep in his step that one of Victoria’s most successful racehorse owners, Phil Sly, likes to live life as he continues to fight cancer, so it’s no surprise the popular builder is gleaming as two of his juveniles prepare for Australia’s two biggest two-year-old races, the Patinack Farm Blue Diamond and AAMI Golden Slipper.
Caulfield trainer Byron Cozamanis is still a chance of having a Patinack Farm Blue Diamond runner, after making the third acceptance payment on Tuesday for his pair of weekend two-year-old debutants, Feral Cowboy and Black Temptation.