Horse Racing News
Playhouse Patron’s Towton Cup win boosts 2025 Perth Cup credentials
As hard as they tried, they couldn’t get past Playhouse Patron in the Listed G.A.Towton Cup (2200m) at Ascot on Saturday, the Bob McPherson-trained gelding’s tough effort boosting his Perth Cup (2400m) credentials on New Year’s Day. Playhouse Patron was there for the taking and looked vulnerable when headed by Diamond Scene...
Light Infantry Man salutes in G1 Northerly Stakes
They came, they saw and they conquered. The eastern states raiders made it a clean sweep of Perth’s Group 1 races when Light Infantry Man rebounded to win the Northerly Stakes (1800m) at Ascot on Saturday. Giving powerhouse trainer Ciaron Maher and jockey, Ethan Brown the final Group 1 of the Australian...
Freedman tests Magic Millions waters at Wyong
Michael Freedman will test out a couple of Magic Millions Raceday prospects when Wyong hosts its big preview meeting this Wednesday. The Randwick horseman will have Offenbach in the $200,000 Magic Millions Wyong 2YO Classic and Queen Of The Mile in the $150,000 Magic Millions Wyong 3&4YO Stakes. Offenbach, a $650,000 Gold Coast purchase...
Michael Hickmott’s two-pronged Vic assault
Michael Hickmott will look to add to his already-impressive record in Melbourne this season when he sends to horses across the border this weekend. The Murray Bridge horseman will run Irish mare Spirit Of Camelot at Saturday’s Caulfield Heath meeting after Stakes-placed filly Ad Astra contests a maiden race at Moonee Valley on Friday...
Diamond Scene to keep 2025 Perth Cup momentum going in Towton Cup
Trainer Michael Grantham says Diamond Scene can keep his Perth Cup (2400m) momentum going when he attempts to win the second leg of a feature double at Ascot on Saturday. Diamond Scene will tackle the G.A.Towton Cup (2200m), a critical Perth Cup lead-up race, against ten other rivals, nearly a month after...
Tony Gollan chasing dream HK debut with Antino
Brisbane’s dominant trainer for the past decade, Tony Gollan will realise a long-held ambition when he saddles up in-form gelding Antino in the Hong Kong Mile at the International meeting at Sha Tin. A brilliant winner of the Toorak Handicap at Caulfield two starts ago, Antino beat all but proven weight-for-age star...
Emotional win for Berkeley Square in the Ballarat Cup
It felt as if the stars aligned for Berkeley Square to win the Listed Ballarat Cup (2000m) with local trainer Dan O’Sullivan re-uniting with stable apprentice Jaylah Kennedy to take their hometown Cup. Kennedy, who had ridden Berkeley Square in his first six runs this campaign, including two wins at open level, wasn’t aboard...
Private Harry on track for the rich Magic Millions Sunlight
Promising three-year-old Private Harry continues to make all the right moves on and off the track, taking his unbeaten streak to three despite not enjoying the soft conditions at Rosehill. Displaying the type of racing manners that trainer Nathan Doyle says reflects his attitude at home, the young colt travelled generously for jockey...
Gollan’s Golden boy goes Boom in the Bribie Handicap
Saddling up half the field in the Bribie Handicap, Tony Gollan had weight of numbers on his side and the race went virtually to script as the two most fancied of his sextet, Golden Boom and Zarastro, fought out the finish. It was the former who came out on top, jockey Kyle Wilson-Taylor able...
Birdsville Cup winner returns at Morphettville races
It may not have been Australia’s richest race, but Phillip Stokes got a huge thrill out of winning the Birdsville Cup with Neodium. The victory in September was Neodium’s second on the outback circuit, the difference in the gelding’s latest victory, Stokes was on course to witness it. Stokes grew up around the...