Stratum colt Va Pensiero joined fellow Inglis graduates Snitzerland and Foxwedge as recent winners of the Group 3 ATC San Domenico Stakes when dashing away with the three-year-old feature in Sydney on Saturday.
Early 2012/13 Australian racing season features fell the way of Snitzerland and Second Effort in very different conditions on Saturday, which marked the start of many Group 1 spring ambitions for gallopers in Sydney and Melbourne.
The catalogue for the Hunter Valley breeders annual yearling sale to be conducted at Scone on May 12 and 15 can rightly be promoted as the strongest in its 65 year history.
Sydney’s most popular galloper Hot Danish called on all of her reserves not to disappoint her 21,274 adoring fans assembled at Randwick to score a determined win in the Group II The Shorts (1200m) on Saturday.
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.
Inglis Classic winner Fear No Other will make a last-ditch bid to qualify for the $1 million Golden Rose when he returns to Sydney for The Run To The Rose at Rosehill on Saturday.
THERE'S nothing like thoroughbred horsepower to set the heart racing. Off-track dramas continue with bitter battles on several fronts. Racing's financial income streams, club mergers and such are creating chasms, but not to worry. The good horses are on the way back.