Horse Racing News
Cylinder set to fire in Sydney return
Godolphin and its predecessors have a stunning record in The Run To The Rose and powerful colt Cylinder is a well backed odds-on favourite to continue that dominance this year. Sheikh Mohammed’s operation has won the Golden Rose lead-up five times since its takeover of the Ingham family-owned Crown Lodge, the...
Cinderella set to spice up the Sheraco Stakes
Joe Pride says it will be “handlebars down” when Cinderella Days bids to rebound from a first-up defeat in Saturday’s Group 2 Sheraco Stakes at Rosehill. The mare took a trail when fourth to Parisal in the Toy Show Quality (1100m) and while she was only beaten 2-1/2 lengths, Pride felt she...
Forgot You bids for 2023 Cox Plate start
Unbeaten at Moonee Valley, Forgot You may be the forgotten horse in the Feehan Stakes. That is what his trainers Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young are banking on when the now five-year-old entire runs in the Group 2 weight-for-age contest over 1600m on Saturday. Forgot You won three races at The Valley as a three-year-old, once at 1500m...
Freedman pair set to tackle the Atlantic Jewel Stakes
Anthony and Sam Freedman will have a two-pronged attack in a Stakes race at Moonee Valley as they go about trying to topple brilliant filly Charm Stone. De Sonic Boom and Right To Party are set to tackle Charm Stone in the Listed Atlantic Jewel Stakes (1200m) on Saturday. Both fillies will be...
Roth ready to Fire in the McEwen Stakes field
It does not take jockey Blake Shinn long to get an affinity with a horse. After one ride on Queensland sprinter Rothfire, Shinn could feel the quality the gelding possesses. Rothfire is back in Melbourne for a second Spring Carnival campaign and is looking to start it the way he did 12 months ago with victory in the Group 2...
Joe Pride assembling a strong team for the spring
Even with the retirement this week of outstanding sprinter Eduardo, Joe Pride is assembling a strong team for the spring and untapped colt Ceolwulf might just put his hand up to join it. Despite having relatively small numbers in work, Pride consistently produces top performers with exciting sprinter Think About It and Everest runner-up...
Snowden confident Don Corleone can make amends
The Blue Diamond Stakes might have been the race that got away, but co-trainer Paul Snowden is confident Don Corleone can make amends this spring. The blue-blooded colt had to settle for the minor prize in two Group 1s as a juvenile, finishing a luckless second in the Melbourne feature then...
Ben Allen reunites with Steparty in the McKenzie Stakes
When the connections of Steparty needed to find a replacement rider for Dean Yendall, it was an easy decision to head in the direction of John Allen. Yendall suffered a fracture to a collarbone when dislodged behind the barriers at the Colac jump-outs last week and has been forced to forego the ride on Steparty in the...
Australian Turf Club to introduce later trackwork times
Sydney trainers will have later trackwork start times from February next year in a bid to attract more people to the industry. The Australian Turf Club announced on Wednesday it would be changing trackwork times at all three training centres from February 1 next year, with Randwick and Warwick Farm opening...
Samizdat on track for Farnley Stakes says Michael Gangemi
Co-trainer Michael Gangemi is hopeful Samizdat’s long losing drought could come to an end in Saturday’s Listed Farnley Stakes (1400m) at Belmont. It’s been two years and 12 starts since Samizdat last tasted success when he charged home to win the Listed Belmont Newmarket (1200m) first-up. Michael Gangemi, who trains in partnership with...