Singapore Juvenile Championship winner Rising Empire relished the wet track and the Progress conditions of the 1,400m race to record a facile victory at his first race as a three-year-old on Sunday.
The category finalists for the 2012 Australian Racehorse of the Year Awards presented by Sky Racing World, TABCORP and Staging Connections have been announced today with a star-studded Champion Three-Year-Old Filly category among the highlights.
The powerful Lloyd Williams team struck early at Flemington on Saturday when lightly raced Reset five year-old Fawkner returned from a spell to post a resounding win in the Listed VRC Sofitel Stakes.
Snitzerland has made it two from two this campaign with a narrow success as the well supported favourite in Saturday’s Group 2 Danehill Stakes at Flemington.
Snitzerland confirmed her position as the top three-year-old sprinting filly in Australia with a gutsy victory against the males in the Group 2 VRC Danehill Stakes at Flemington.
Shanghai Warrior, the promising four-year-old out to enhance his reputation in the Bobbie Lewis Quality at Flemington tomorrow, is getting the personal touch from Pat Hyland, 71 years young and still in the saddle.
Jockey William Buick feels the experience getting to know Ortensia could be crucial when the duo line up in Saturday’s Haydock Sprint Cup. Buick has ridden the Aussie mare three times.
Hoybell was the most expensive filly by champion sire Encosta de Lago sold in 2011, so it's no surprise she kicked off her career with a debut win at Canterbury on Wednesday.
Five individual races in the $5million Inglis Race Series have been given the official stamp of approval by the Australian Pattern Committee and Australian Racing Board for upgrade to Restricted Listed status.
Rick Hore-Lacy is hoping comeback galloper Chase The Rainbow could be Caulfield Cup bound after his brilliant win in the National Jockeys' Celebration Day Plate at Caulfield yesterday.
A horse whose name is derived from one of the world's more mysterious tragedies earned some notoriety of her own with a courageous win in the Group Three HDF McNeil Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield on Saturday.
The temptation of a second successive VRC Oaks was placed before trainer Robert Smerdon by the impressive filly Bloomingdale Miss at Caulfield on Saturday.