Sincero stamped himself as one of Australia’s best three-year-olds when coming with a well-timed run to gun down top mare Beaded in today’s $1Million Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm.
Premiership heavyweights Chris Waller and Peter Snowden had some kindly pre-Stradbroke Handicap advice for rival Stephen Farley, the Wyong-based trainer who has found himself in foreign territory.
Next Wednesday will be the last opportunity to submit Supplementary Entries for the 2011 Inglis Australian Weanling & Bloodstock Sale, to be held on June 22 to 24 at Newmarket.
Two of Australia’s most well renowned organisations in the equine industry, Equestrian Australia (EA) and Inglis, are teaming up in a bid to revolutionise Equestrian sport.
Inglis will conduct a “Breeding Thoroughbreds for Commercial Sale” seminar at Newmarket on Tuesday 21 June following the TVN First Season Sire Showcase.
AUSTRALIAN Racing's Hall of Fame is in disarray - without a chairman, a home or an event planned for this year. Racing Victoria is hoping the concept will be adopted by the Australian Racing Board.
HOT Snitzel landed a plunge, while those supporting the Darley juggernaut were left licking their wounds after a dramatic BRC Sires Produce Stakes (1400m) yesterday.
Varenna Miss, Becerra and Royal Commands all provided some notable updates for this month’s Inglis Australian Weanling and Breeding Stock Sale with their respective performances today.
Caulfield trainer Peter Moody has commenced the mind games already for the 2011 spring with comments that Black Caviar, currently the joint highest rated horse in the world with the English trained Frankel, might race in Japan instead of during the Victorian Sprint Racing carnival.
THE Queensland Oaks at Eagle Farm on Saturday might well be run under these conditions for the last time. Could mares, four years and older, compete against the fillies?
Co-trainer Simon Zahra says stakes-winning mare Royal Commands can score one final win before she heads to the sales ring in Saturday's Samson Handicap (2100m) at Betfair Park – Sandown Lakeside.
A slick win by highly regarded Starcraft two year-old Secret Hills at Bendigo on Thursday added to the run of success enjoyed this season by two year-olds consigned by progressive Victorian nursery Three Bridges Thoroughbreds.