Australia
Four-year-old mare Spanish Whisper has confirmed her liking for the Flemington 1400m course with another Group Two win in the Let's Elope Stakes. Spanish Whisper won the Gr.2 Kewney Stakes over the course and distance in the second start of her autumn preparation in March
Australia
Lightly raced gelding Rox The Castle has taken the step to stakes company and continued to build on his promising record with a determined victory in a Listed race at Flemington leading home a New Zealand-bred trifecta. Five-year-old Rox The Castle took his record to seven wins
Australia
Shock Alert (blue and yellow cap) on his way to winning at Rosehill on Saturday (bradleyphotos.com.au) Trainer Bjorn Baker has had a marvellous start to the season with two wins at Rosehill after starting the day's meeting with six metropolitan winners. Both Saturday's wins
International
Debutant Tom Cat gave his rivals a full sight of his jet exhausts in the S$75,000 Restricted Maiden race over 1100m on Friday night. Like the F-14 jet fighter he is named after, the New Zealand-bred Wandjina three-year-old blasted off to the front after
Trainer Saimee Jumaat welcomed Orient Express’s first win with a sense of relief on Friday night. The former eight-time Singapore champion jockey said he had been at his wit’s end trying to get the Pour Moi five-year-old to find the line, let alone a jockey
Australia
Anthony Freedman will be hoping for a better result with new stable acquisition Aloisia when she lines-up in the Gr.2 Let’s Elope Stakes (1400m) at Flemington on Saturday. The New Zealand-bred mare joined Freedman’s Mornington barn after she was purchased for A$1.2 million
Australia
Recently crowned champion New Zealand two-year-old Yourdeel is set to make his debut for Lindsay Park at Flemington. Yourbeel runs in Saturday's Group Two Danehill Stakes, a race which Lindsay Park co-trainer Tom Dabernig said could determine his spring path. Dabernig said Yourdeel was heading
Australia
The Australasian racing community will get its first look at Te Akau’s newly acquired European stayer Caliburn this weekend when he lines-up in the Very Special Kids Pin and Win Plate (2500m) at Flemington. The son of Camelot won two of his nine races before he was purchased
Australia
Group One winner Volpe Veloce will have the opportunity to continue an impressive streak when she lines-up in the Gr.2 Theo Marks Stakes (1300m) at Rosehill on Saturday. “She has won a stakes race at the age of two, three, four, and five, I hope she can do
Australia
Glory Days will step out onto Flemington for the first time on Saturday and her connections are hoping she can return to the Melbourne track on the first Tuesday of November. The recently crowned New Zealand Champion Stayer is on a Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) path with her first
Breeding
Former New Zealand Champion Sprinter Bounding has had an outstanding start to her broodmare career with her first foal selling for US$4.1 million at Keeneland’s September Yearling Sale in Lexington, Kentucky, on Tuesday. The son of dual US Horse of the Year Curlin was the subject of
Australia
Leading Australian jockey Hugh Bowman has suffered a broken finger after a trackwork fall at Randwick on Tuesday. The Sydney hoop, who rode the Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained Quick Thinker to victory in the Gr.3 Ming Dynasty Quality (1400m), was treated immediately at Prince of Wales Hospital