Horse Racing News
2025 Bletchingly Stakes waiting game with Baraqiel
The Leon and Troy Corstens and Will Larkin training partnership is taking a patient approach with promising sprinter Baraqiel, who is nominated for this Saturday’s Group 3 Bletchingly Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield, as he prepares for a comeback from injury. Baraqiel, joined by 11 other entries including Kin, Kallos and Inhibitions...
Lindsay Park stars gearing up for return
Lindsay Park’s top galloper Mr Brightside is back in training and progressing nicely as he prepares for a return in the Group 1 Memsie Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on August 30. The champion gelding is already back into a solid rhythm, and Ben Hayes reports that the eight-year-old is in excellent...
Gringotts aiming for return in the 2025 Winx Stakes
The talented Gringotts is back in training and showing all the signs that he’s poised for his best campaign yet as he gears up for a spring return. The rising six-year-old enjoyed an exceptional run last spring, taking out both the Big Dance (1600m) and The Gong (1600m), before returning in...
Via Sistina down for Randwick trial ahead of return in 2025 Winx Stakes
Chris Waller is set to unleash his stable stars in trials this week, with champion mare Via Sistina leading a high-profile contingent heading toward major spring targets in Sydney and Melbourne. Via Sistina will step out in Tuesday’s opening 850m trial at Randwick’s Kensington track, joined by stablemates Fangirl, Tom Kitten...
Team Botti excited for 2025 Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup mission
European trainers Alessandro and Giuseppe Botti are preparing a bold tilt at Australia’s biggest staying contests with Presage Nocturne, a French grey with proven international credentials. After capturing the Group 3 Prix de Barbeville and placing in the Group 1 Prix Vicomtesse Vigier at Longchamp, the Botti brothers are targeting both...
Godolphin's Amusing has last laugh at Rosehill races
Godolphin assistant trainer Darren Beadman enjoyed a bittersweet triumph at Rosehill on Saturday as the promising filly Amusing scored a determined win, bringing joy to a stable nearing a major transformation. With Godolphin's current private training model set to be replaced by a public training framework next season, the win was...
Trip south brings winning result for Mormona in the Flemington Cup
Strategic placement paid off handsomely for the Annabel and Rob Archibald team as Mormona claimed top honours in the Deane Lester Flemington Cup 1849 (2800m) at Flemington on Saturday. With few staying races available in Sydney, the Archibalds transferred four of their European imports—Mormona, Hopeful, Sir Chartwell, and Double Cherry—to their...
Robusto gets the bob in 2025 Winter Challenge at Rosehill
Robusto made a successful return to black-type company at Rosehill on Saturday, prevailing in a gripping finish to the Listed Winter Challenge and marking a potential spring campaign launch pad for trainer Bjorn Baker. Carrying a race-record 60kg, the gelding outlasted Accredited in a two-horse battle up the straight to win...
2025 Victoria Derby run secured for Arcora
Promising colt Arcora stamped himself as a genuine spring contender by winning the Byerley Handicap (1800m) at Flemington on Saturday, earning a ballot-free pass into the Group 1 Victoria Derby (2500m). Trained by Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young, and piloted by John Allen, Arcora ($4.20 fav) held off Bayou Music ($5)...
Rose Hammond lands breakthrough Flemington races win
Rose Hammond realised a career highlight at Flemington on Saturday by guiding Lake Vostok to victory in the RMBL Investments Rising Stars Final (1600m), a race reserved exclusively for apprentice jockeys. Despite being out of contention for the Rising Stars series title, Hammond was laser-focused on capturing the race itself and...