Horse Racing News
Oliver lands winner at last Caulfield Cup Day
With his wife and children watching on, Damien Oliver guided home a winner at his final Caulfield Cup meeting. Oliver announced his retirement from riding at the start of the Spring Carnival and will bow out after competing at the Perth Summer Carnival in November. Unfortunately for Oliver he was unable to add to his haul of...
G1 Thousand Guineas beckons for Coeur Volante
The Group 1 Thousand Guineas (1600m) is next on the agenda for the Michael Moroney trained Coeur Volante who remained unbeaten this preparation, taking out the Group 2 Thousand Guineas Prelude (1400m) at Caulfield. Jumping from the widest barrier, Blake Shinn managed to slot Coeur Volante one out, one back after 200 metres...
Red Can Man out to end long drought
Mention to Steve Wolfe that Red Can Man has not won a race for a while and the Albany-based trainer bristles at the remarks. The records show Red Can Man hasn’t been successful since the G3 John Monash Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield two years ago. But, delve deeper and those same records indicate...
Triple threat for Gangemi’s in the Eurythmic Stakes
The eight-year-old has not saluted in Perth, but has gone close to taking out a feature event with four placings in Group and Listed races since last year. Titan Blinders ran seconds in the Group 3 Eurythmic Stakes (1400m) and Listed Hannans Handicap and two thirds in the Listed Bunbury Stakes and...
Cotehele to shine in Five Diamonds Prelude
The trainer-jockey combination of John O’Shea and Tom Sherry has already celebrated a black-type double this spring and at Randwick on Saturday they will chase a $1 million payday. Having combined to win the City Tattersall’s Club Cup and Colin Stephen Quality with Melbourne Cup hopeful Athabascan, the pair team up with Cotehele...
West Wind Blows primed for the G1 Caulfield Cup
The updates from the Werribee quarantine facility had always been positive, but that didn’t mean Ed Crisford wasn’t without some trepidation when he saw West Wind Blows for the first time in several weeks on Thursday. Crisford and his co-trainer, his father Simon, had been kept well up to date by...
Jockey Craig Williams chasing a third Caulfield Cup
There are many big races in Australia that all have something a little different about them – think the Melbourne Cup, Cox Plate, Golden Slipper and even The Everest. But for something unique there is the Group 1 Caulfield Cup (2400m) which will be run on Saturday. Jockey Craig Williams has won all five...
Damian Lane partners with Breakup in the Caulfield Cup
Racing Victoria and Melbourne’s metropolitan racing clubs all undertake their own international recruiting campaigns, but some perform the role without being on the payroll. Damian Lane is something of an unofficial scout in Japan and earlier this year he was doing his best to ensure Japanese representation in the Spring Carnival majors. The...
C’est ready to show Magique in the Tristarc Stakes
Grahame Begg is banking on an early morning trip being the catalyst for C’Est Magique finding winning form again. A debut winner on the synthetic track at Pakenham in August last year, C’est Magique has raced exclusively in Stakes company in her five subsequent starts. Her seventh career start on Saturday comes in the Group 3 Tristarc Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield where she...
Two Caulfield Cup contenders are in doubt to race
Caulfield Cup contenders Without A Fight and Nonconformist are under a fitness cloud leading into the Caulfield Cup. The two horses were showing signs of lameness following mandatory pre-race veterinary examinations by Racing Victoria vets on Thursday to ascertain their suitability to race. The Anthony and Sam Freedman-trained Without A Fight presented with lameness in the left front foot while the Grahame Begg-trained...