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Reigning Champion Australian First Season Sire Hinchinbrook featured at Randwick on Saturday with a highly impressive juvenile winner in Miss Amajardan, who broke subsequent Group I winner Sweet Idea’s class record.
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Caulfield Cup Day, the first of the Melbourne Spring Carnival majors saw brilliant performances from Inglis graduates at both Caulfield and Royal Randwick, headlined by Mongolian Khan’s brilliant performance in the Group 1 feature.
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Meanwhile, there is self-inflicted pressure for the owner of 4YO Mongolian Khan, the short-priced favourite for tomorrow's Caulfield Cup in Melbourne who has drawn perfectly in barrier nine after his fast-finishing third last week in the Caulfield Stakes.
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Matthew Dale’s problem makes him the envy of most of his peers. The Canberra trainer has become a victim of his own success. Despite the relative anonymity of his stable base, Dale is a man in demand.
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Trainer Murray Baker is anticipating no problems with Mongolian Khan (Holy Roman Emperor-Centafit, by Centaine) backing up in tomorrow's Gr1 Caulfield Cup (2400m).
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Kurt Goldman quickly realised a young Hellbent was going to be the best horse he had ever trained and his first response was to ask owner Alan Cardy if he wanted to transfer it to a high-profile Sydney trainer.
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The Victoria Racing Club (VRC) yesterday announced a new Flemington tradition - the Harry White Whip trophy - to be awarded to the winning jockey of the Melbourne Cup each year.
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When your dad is High Chaparral (IRE) and your mum is a full sister to Fastnet Rock, it’s not hard to think that a colt like this might be well above average.
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Black Caviar will visit sire Snitzel for her 2015 mating, having successfully given birth to her second foal in September.
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Swettenham Stud has jumped the blocks with its two year-olds this season, the Victorian nursery earning black-type twice in the first two juvenile events of the season in Melbourne.
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Stawell-based trainer Terry O’Sullivan bought Caulfield Cup starter Magnapal (Magnus x Luxapal) as a yearling from the 2011 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale for $70,000. The gelding has since delivered over $380,000 in his four years on the track for his owners, and with a chance to add $1,750,000 and take his total prizemoney to more than $2 million on Saturday, O’Sullivan doesn’t regret going over his usual budget at the sale.
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Exciting Encosta de Lago colt Vanbrugh has all the credentials to become a leading representative of his sire line come the end of his racing career.
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Boom I Am Invincible colt Super One might have been rolled at Cranbourne on Sunday in his first Australian start after travelling from Singapore, but his sire has another rising star in the pipeline in the shape of Hellbent.
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Scone trainer Rod Northam had a Muswellbrook double on Monday and will send out a handful at Gunnedah on Saturday, but he will be with Odyssey Moon in Melbourne in an attempt to lift the Caulfield Guineas trophy.
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Outstanding sprinter Brazen Beau was declared Champion Three-Year-Old Colt or Gelding at the Australian Racehorse of the Year Awards overnight, putting the icing on the cake of a stellar career for his racing connections including his large syndicate of owners, 36 of whom were in attendance at the event, trainer Chris Waller, and Ontrack Thoroughbreds’ Grant Morgan.
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