Horse Racing News
Attractable’s G2 Apollo Stakes aim
Sara Ryan has Group One ambitions for Big Dance winner Attractable, who will resume in Saturday’s Group 2 Apollo Stakes, with the stable’s banner horse set to target another, even richer Randwick Mile feature- the Group 1 Doncaster Mile (1600m). The five-year-old was in career best form and then some over the...
Gai Waterhouse voices opposition to Rosehill sale
Gai Waterhouse said she “felt embarrassed for the Board” following a meeting between the Australian Turf Club and its members over the proposal to sell Rosehill racecourse. ATC chairman Peter McGauran delivered a brief of the club’s plans at a members’ forum on Tuesday night where Waterhouse made it clear she...
Hyeromimus replaced by James McDonald on star colt Storm Boy
Adam Hyeronimus has taken a philosophical outlook after being replaced as the rider of Storm Boy and is already excited about the prospect of upsetting the glamour colt in next month’s Golden Slipper. The Sydney jockey, who is a stable rider for Storm Boy’s trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, was advised earlier...
Bella Nipotina set for Black Caviar Lightning Stakes return
Ciaron Maher credits the variety of training establishments the stable can utilise in bringing out the best in Bella Nipotina who is on the cusp of starting another campaign. Bella Nipotina is slated to run in the Group 1 Lightning Stakes (1000m) at Flemington on Saturday, kick starting her tenth campaign. The daughter of...
Buenos Noches primed for Expressway Stakes return
Matt Smith will target feature sprints in two states with Buenos Noches as he sets his sights on an elusive Group 1 win. The four-year-old will kick off his campaign in the Group 2 Expressway Stakes (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday as a pipe-opener to a southern state raid on the Newmarket...
Aurora’s Symphony wins the Hobart Cup
Aurora’s Symphony made it three from three in the apple isle when dominant taking out the Group 3 Hobart Cup on Sunday Already a dual Launceston Cup winner, Aurora’s Symphony stepped out at Hobart for the first time and had no issues carrying the big weight. An impressive winner at Flemington in...
RV to induct next generation of riders
Sage Duric, the daughter of Caulfield Cup winner Vlad Duric, is one of 11 riders who will officially be inducted as apprentice jockeys on Monday night at Moonee Valley. Duric is one of 11 members of the 2024 intake of Racing Victoria’s Apprentice Jockey Training Program. The 21-year-old is looking to follow...
Think It Over to resume in the Apollo Stakes
The path to another tilt at the Queen Elizabeth Stakes for 2022 winner Think It Over is set to begin in another Randwick weight-for-age race the grand campaigner also won two years ago. Trainer Kerry Parker is thrilled with the way his stable star is going in preparation for his first start of...
Fully Lit scores rich win in the Inglis Millennium
Tulloch Lodge has continued its incredible strikerate with two-year-olds, this time plundering the $2 million Inglis Millennium with unassuming colt Fully Lit. The stable has produced 12 individual juvenile winners this season and co-trainer Adrian Bott says Fully Lit will be considered for a start in the Blue Diamond Stakes in Melbourne...
Mr Brightside lands brutal G1 CF Orr Stakes
Mr Brightside had to call on all his fighting qualities to land victory in the first Group 1 race of the autumn at Caulfield. The C F Orr Stakes (1400m) on Saturday was turned into a war of attrition with the weight-for-age race run at a brutal tempo. Mr Brightside had been slow...