Blue Diamond winner Reward for Effort has been a forgotten horse this year and while his peers have been snapped up for stud duties left right and centre by various farms, he has been battling injury with some light now seen at the end of the tunnel.
As a dual Group One winner of more than $1,6 million in prizemoney, star mare Zarita has been a great favourite with many punters and racegoers, her owners this week deciding to draw the curtains on a wonderful racing career with her next engagement a trip to Coolmore Stud.
Caulfield trainer Mick Price has refused to get carried away after Our Baby Bonus took his winning streak to four after scoring in the Adapt Australia Handicap (1000m) at Moonee Valley.
THEY are striving for a berth in the Stradbroke Handicap but only one will be granted the opportunity. Promising gallopers Border Rebel, Stryker and Catapulted are set for a showdown in the Group Two QTC Cup (1300m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday, with the winner to gain entry to Queensland's richest race.
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.