The opportunity to ride Fenway in Saturday's Vinery Stud Stakes at Rosehill was not one Blake Shinn wanted to miss once he was booked by stepfather Lee Hope.
Results in stakes races from Warwick Farm and Caulfield on Saturday showed just how much we will miss two outstanding shuttle stallions High Chaparral (IRE) and Street Cry (IRE).
Singapore Juvenile Championship winner Rising Empire relished the wet track and the Progress conditions of the 1,400m race to record a facile victory at his first race as a three-year-old on Sunday.
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.
Here De Angels edges closer towards a race start with the Group 1 performed sprinter winning a jump out at Goulburn on Wednesday for new trainer Wendy Roche who believes the seven-year-old is gradually overcoming his fear of loading into the barriers.
TALK of jockey Jim Cassidy calling it quits is premature, despite the grand-slam-winning rider being banned for three months yesterday after failing a drugs test.
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.
Australian bred colt Musir started his Dubai campaign on the right note when taking out the UAE Guineas Trial at Meydan on Thursday for leading trainer Mike de Kock.
Stradbroke Handicap favourite All Silent has received the weight trainer Grahame Begg expected, but more than he had hoped for, in the Brisbane feature.
FLEMINGTON trainer Nigel Blackiston heads to Sydney today with top galloper Littorio and happy with this week's weather forecast, but not so pleased about Doncaster Handicap weights.