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Quick Thinker (So You Think) has run his last race, with owners OTI Racing confirming injury has forced a premature end to the five-year-old's career. OTI CEO Terry Henderson said last year's Gr.1 Australian Derby winner arrived in Melbourne ahead of the Caulfield
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A favourable weather forecast is predicted to help the chances of Miami Bound (NZ) (Reliable Man) in her bid for a second Gr.2 Moonee Valley Gold Cup (2500m). The Danny O'Brien-trained mare won the Group 2 event on a soft track last year and rain is
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Mightybeel (NZ) (Savabeel) recorded his second consecutive win when successful in The Agency Real Estate Handicap (1800m) at Randwick’s Kensington track on Wednesday. The four-year-old Savabeel gelding stepped onto the track as race favourite and though he won convincingly by three-quarters of a length, the run
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Tavistock three-year-old Cotehele (NZ) will contest Saturday’s A$1 million Bondi Stakes (1600m) at Randwick for trainer John O’Shea, where he will attempt to turn the tables on Hilal and Coastwatch, who beat him home in the Gr.2 Stan Fox Stakes (1500m) last start. Sam
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Racing Victoria veterinarians inspected all 10 horses accepted to run in Saturday’s Gr.1 Cox Plate (2040m) at The Valley. The John Barry trained Callsign Mav (NZ) (Atlante) displayed lameness in his left front leg and as such will be re-examined on Friday. Stewards were advised that the
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Wednesday’s Gr.3 Geelong Cup (2400m) winner Tralee Rose (NZ) (Tavistock) has avoided a penalty for the Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) on Tuesday week. The Symon Wilde-trained daughter of Tavistock remains on 51kg in the Melbourne Cup, but has risen four places to 20th in the order
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A decade and a half after Todd Pollard entered the racing industry as an enthusiastic schoolboy, he now finds himself front and centre of one the world’s most famous races, the Gr.1 W.S. Cox Plate (2040m). Pollard’s first taste of racing was as a 12-year-
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Tralee Rose has guaranteed her place in the Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) after a game victory in Wednesday’s Gr.3 Geelong Cup (2400m). The daughter of Tavistock was on the cusp of a start in the great race, sitting 24th on the order of entry, and Warrnambool trainer
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The Tony Pike-trained Tutukaka (NZ) (Tavistock) confirmed his staying prowess when powering home to land the Listed Geelong Classic (2200m) on Wednesday under a patient Damian Lane ride. The Tavistock gelding raced too fiercely when fifth in the Listed Super Impose Stakes (1800m) earlier in the month, and the
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Trainer David Browne’s big game expedition to Victoria with the talented duo of Elephant (NZ) (Shocking) and Rhinoceros (NZ) (Vadamos) will take on a new look at the weekend. Browne is in charge of the venture with wife and training partner Emma-Lee back home looking after their Cambridge
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At 31, trainer Jamie Richards makes most people seem like under-achievers. The Matamata horseman has 47 Group One wins to his name and will send out a live chance in the A$5 million Gr.1 Cox Plate (2040m) on Saturday for the third year in succession. Four-time
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She's a A$100,000 yearling purchase who has earned more than A$2.3 million in prize money to date, but Brad Widdup's Icebath (NZ) (Sacred Falls) could have amassed plenty more if a couple of results had gone her way. The Sacred Falls mare