Classy sprinters Alverta and Nicconi have left Australia and have safely completed the first leg of a journey that will see them touch down in England.
TONY Noonan liked what he saw after supervising Ortensia's Doomben gallop on Tuesday morning and says punters can expect a more formidable mare this weekend.
Halting the proposed Bickham coal mine near Murrurundi is only the first step in achieving sustainable long-term land management across the Upper Hunter Valley of NSW.
The people's mare, Hot Danish, is heading north for Saturday's Doomben 10,000 and trainer Les Bridge is confident the strapping six-year-old will receive a surface to suit in the group 1 event.
Fastnet Rock was on fire at the weekend with a stakes double at Doomben in Brisbane thanks to class three year-olds Stryker and Rothesay, while in Hong Kong on Sunday at Sha Tin another potential star stepped up to the plate in scintillating debut winner Sichuan Success.
Jim Cassidy just doesn't talk like this. The jockey-room elder with more big-race success than any Australian rival stunned regulars at Canterbury yesterday. He had just guided the Chris Waller-trained juvenile Slater to an impressive debut win.
On a star studded program at Kranji on Sunday there was one up and comer who really caught the eye and that was three year-old Éclair Fastpass, who bolted in to win by eight lengths in the Singapore Airlines Munich Stakes over 1200 metres.