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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Durban July favourite Igugu is in good shape ahead of his lead-up in Saturday's Woolavington 2000 at Greyville.
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Champion trainer Mark Kavanagh is likely to take the wraps off the second foal of triple Melbourne Cup winner Makybe Diva at Saturday’s Betfair Park – Sandown Lakeside meeting.
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With eight winners in the past seven days including Group I Doomben 10,000 heroine Beaded, Darley based Lonhro has edged to the lead on the Australian Generals Sires List by earnings.
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Talented Fastnet Rock four year-old Sichuan Success scored a dominant win at Sha Tin on Sunday, his fifth victory from just nine starts.
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30th May 2011
HALL-OF-FAME trainer Lee Freedman yesterday broke new ground after being fined $750 for blasting stewards at Caulfield on Twitter over their decision to scratch his horse Our Smokin' Rock at the barriers before race three.
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Brighton trainer Terry Evans has his former smart galloper Winter Guest to thank for his latest stable star Pittenweem, winner of the $50,000 Tasmanian Sires Produce Stakes in Launceston last Thursday night.
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The second release of the World Thoroughbred Rankings for 2011 by the International Federation of Horse Authorities (IFHA) overnight has further strengthened Australian racing’s burgeoning position on the world stage.
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Australian thoroughbreds have been flying high in South Africa this year with the latest to taste stakes success being Alinga, winner of the Listed East Coast Handicap at Clairwood on Sunday.
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THE on-track commentator called Rocket Man the "champion international sprinter of the world" when he won the KrisFlyer International Sprint on Sunday, but the five-year-old didn't come close to Black Caviar on the ratings - and he didn't even produce the performance of the week.
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Talented Snippetson two year-old Nobby Snip took another step up the ladder with a dominant win at Rosehill on Saturday for the Gai Waterhouse stable.
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The catalogue for the 2011 Inglis Australian Weanling & Bloodstock Stock Sale is now online.
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