Former Mount Macedon-trained galloper Linton capitalised on a dream run along the rails to win the $1.36 million Group One Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm. Coming from last, Linton scraped the fence for jockey Nick Hall to deny Queensland star Buffering his first Group One win. A long-range plan to set Linton for the Stradbroke [...]
Hawkspur completed a clean sweep of the Brisbane winter carnival triple crown for three-year-old stayers after adding the $500,000 Group One Queensland Derby at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Beautifully ridden by Jim Cassidy, Hawkspur claimed the third and most significant triple crown leg, after earlier emphatic wins in the Rough Habit and Grand Prix. Saving [...]
Victorian-trained Gondokoro brilliantly won the Queensland Oaks at Eagle Farm vindicating Pat Carey as a master trainer of stayers. Carey has a great relationship with stable jockey Rhys McLeod and his ride aboard Gondokoro was more than worthy of a Group One victory. McLeod tracked $2.90 favourite Dear Demi early, before continuing to save ground on the [...]
Taxmeifyoucan came from near the rear 200m out to easily win the richest race over the $2million two day Scone Cup carnival, the $500,000 Inglis Scone Guineas-RL (1400m). The three-year-old gelding evoked memories of champion juvenile filly Stage Hit who was one of the early stars sired by great Australian stallion Century. Second dam of [...]
Promising young Vinery Stud based sire Myboycharlie (IRE) posted a winning double on Saturday with Dowdstown Charlie scoring at Randwick in Sydney and Sprinting Queen successful at Turffontein in South Africa. A $140,000 Magic Millions purchase for his trainer David Payne from the draft of Amarina Farm, the newly gelded Dowdstown Charlie produced his A [...]
ORTENSIA’S sire Testa Rossa is closing in on a major milestone with just a handful of winners needed to take his career tally to 500. The Vinery Stud resident currently sits on 494 individual winners from a total of 687 starters giving him an unsually high winners-to-runners strike rate of 71.9 percent. Testa Rossa is the sire of [...]
Dawn Approach, the English 2,000 Guineas winner and abject beaten favourite in the Epsom Derby, narrowly prevailed in a thrilling battle with Toronado in the St James’s Palace Stakes, the highlight of day one at Royal Ascot. He won by a short-head at the end of a dramatic race, with favourite-backers kept on tenterhooks by a [...]
Palace Malice took charge on the turn for home and won the Belmont Stakes in unrelenting style, beating Preakness winner Oxbow and Kentucky Derby winner Orb. The win gave Todd Pletcher his second Belmont winner in six years, and vindicated the trainer’s support of a 3-year-old who came into the final leg of the Triple [...]
Ruler Of The World gave trainer Aidan O’Brien his fourth win in the prestigious Epsom Derby and brought up the 10th for owners Coolmore Stud. The 7-1 chance, the latest Classic winner to emerge from O’Brien’s Ballydoyle stable with a bloodline to the cream of the sport, proved too strong for 11 rivals under jockey [...]
The phenomenal increase in the popularity of Twitter as a social media tool has led some to reassess the position of online community forums, the traditional way for users to interact online and publish their opinions to the general audience. As an avid user of both mediums, I believe that rather than overtaking traditional forms of personal blogging, [...]
Outsider Auroras Encore (66-1) powered to the line to score by 9 lengths in the 2013 John Smith’s English Grand National. Sue Smith became only the third female in history to train the winner of the race. Beaten just a head in the Scottish National at Ayr a year ago, the 11-year-old had been well [...]
An inspired ride from Chris Munce landed a massive betting plunge on Sizzling in the Group Two Queensland Guineas at Eagle Farm. Munce admitted he had been relieved on two fronts when Sizzling ($3.80) scored by a long neck to Dances of Stars ($41) with a long head to Lucky Hussler ($26). He had been [...]
Talent gave jockey Richard Hughes his second English classic win of the season as she produced a stunning burst of speed to win the Epsom Oaks on yesterday. Hughes — 40 and who had not ridden an English classic winner until Sky Lantern won the 1000 Guineas earlier this month — guided the 20/1 Ralph [...]
Dawn Approach brave at Royal Ascot
Dawn Approach, the English 2,000 Guineas winner and abject beaten favourite in the Epsom Derby, narrowly prevailed in a thrilling battle with Toronado in the St James’s Palace Stakes, the highlight of day one at Royal Ascot. He won by a short-head at the end of a dramatic race, with favourite-backers kept on tenterhooks by a [...]
Palace Malice took charge on the turn for home and won the Belmont Stakes in unrelenting style, beating Preakness winner Oxbow and Kentucky Derby winner Orb. The win gave Todd Pletcher his second Belmont winner in six years, and vindicated the trainer’s support of a 3-year-old who came into the final leg of the Triple [...]
Ruler Of The World gave trainer Aidan O’Brien his fourth win in the prestigious Epsom Derby and brought up the 10th for owners Coolmore Stud. The 7-1 chance, the latest Classic winner to emerge from O’Brien’s Ballydoyle stable with a bloodline to the cream of the sport, proved too strong for 11 rivals under jockey [...]
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