A trio of untapped 3YOs and a three-time Stakes-winning 4YO showed they were all in for big spring preparations with impressive first-up victories around Australia today.
When Joe O’Neill from Prime Thoroughbreds attended the 2018 Classic Yearling Sale – the first ever sale at Riverside stables – he did so with a cunning plan.
Warwick Farm trainer Bjorn Baker is shooting for back-to-back wins in Saturday's $250,000 Inglis Nursery (1000m) at Kensington and he's given Racenet a full account of his trio of runners.
A large field of 14 lined up for the 2012 running of the $250,000 Inglis Classic at Rosehill today, and it took a very smart debutant in Cavalry Rose to charge home over the top of the speedy Diamond Earth to score in the Inglis Race Series event.
Trainer Patrick Shaw has been a little light on for race numbers in recent weeks, but looks to be back in the winner’s circle on Sunday with champion sprinter Rocket Man who makes his return to racing over 1200m.
Sydney solicitor Bill McNally has raced horses with the Wyong based Tilley family for the best part of three decades. On Monday at Muswellbrook, the long tradition continues when two-year-old Dangerous Edition makes his race debut in the MRC Function Centre 2YO Maiden over 900 metres.
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.
A pair of well bred colts in Foxwedge and Sabutai will attempt to go a step closer toward a Golden Slipper start when they make their debuts at Rosehill on Saturday while Gerald Ryan's filly Saramenha can book her spot in the $3.5million race if she runs in the fillies division as expected.
SYDNEY Turf Club is set to trial at least two Friday night race meetings at Canterbury over summer as a precursor to a permanent switch from Thursday nights.
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.
ERRATIC two-year-olds Essaouira and More Joyous must stop buck-jumping if they are to take their place in next month's $3.5 million Golden Slipper Stakes.
Racing NSW chief steward Ray Murrihy has told Ray Thomas that betting exchanges have "added another equation to what the stewards need to look for when it comes to betting activity".