Horse Racing News
Stakes chance looms for blue-blooded filly in Mode Stakes
The opportunity to garner some black type for a superbly related filly has drawn Peter Snowden north of the NSW border with I Found You, who will line up in the Listed Mode Stakes at Doomben. An I Am Invincible half-sister to two serving stallions in Deep Field and Shooting To Win,...
Champion mare Winx welcomes healthy Snitzel colt
Star mare gives birth overnight with positive signs for mum and son. Winx is back in the racing headlines after giving birth to a colt on Monday morning. Her third foal, this son of Snitzel follows a now two-year-old filly by Pierro who sold for a dizzying $10 million at the Inglis...
Arapaho set for pet distance in the Zipping Classic
Arapaho may not have won a race for more than 18 months, but through a number of setbacks and issues over that time he has become one of the more special horses to Bjorn Baker’s training team. Arapaho is set to line up in the Group 2 Zipping Classic at Caulfield...
Trainer Matt Hoysted’s pair ready for rescheduled Tattersall’s Classic
Welcome relief from persistent rain has seen the Doomben surface go from unsuitable to race on Friday to approaching what could be a track rated just in the soft range on Wednesday. Two listed races highlighted the beginning of the Brisbane run of the Queensland Summer Carnival and with the meeting...
Overpass out to maintain Perth dominance in G1 Winterbottom Stakes
Fresh from Port Lockroy taking out the Railway Stakes (1600m) on Saturday, the Annabel Neasham-Rob Archibald training operation are quietly confident of securing a second Group 1 victory in the space of seven days in Perth this weekend. Neasham and Archibald will saddle up Lady Laguna in the Winterbottom Stakes, optimistic she can bounce...
Perth Cup 2025 looms for Lucy Fiore
Peter Fernie and Lucy Fiore, who proved an irresistible combination in the recently completed Kalgoorlie season, carried that force into black-type company at Ascot on Saturday following the front-running win of Sentimental Hero in the Listed A.J.Scahill Cup (2100m), opening the possibility to an even bigger prize on New Year’s...
Pisces in line for 2024 Sandown Guineas honours
James Cummings and the Godolphin team are happy to again step up to 1600m with a more mature Pisces at Caulfield. Gelded at the end of his two –year-old season, Pisces has finished in the placings in his two runs this campaign, including a win in the Group 3 Blue Sapphire Stakes (1400m)...
Winterbottom Stakes 2024: Archibald-Neasham look for second G1 in Perth
Fresh from Port Lockroy taking out the Railway Stakes (1600m) on Saturday, the Annabel Neasham-Rob Archibald training operation are quietly confident of securing a second Group 1 victory in the space of seven days in Perth this weekend. Neasham and Archibald will saddle up Lady Laguna in the Winterbottom Stakes, optimistic she can...
Winterbottom Stakes: Quarter dozen for Bjorn Baker’s sprint star?
Hit and run missions in Perth have been somewhat the making of Overpass, who has won thrice at Ascot, collecting the first two editions of The Quokka (1200m) and last year’s Group 1 Winterbottom Stakes (1200m), a crown he’ll attempt to defend on Saturday. The six-year-old gelding has won over $5...
Clint Johnston-Porter wins first G1 with Port Lockroy in Railway Stakes
Port Lockroy has built upon his eye catching Golden Eagle performance with a maiden Group 1 victory in the Railway Stakes at Ascot on Saturday. Three weeks after a closing sixth in the $10million Golden Eagle at Rosehill on November 2, Port Lockroy was a class above in WA’s feature Group 1...