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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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