Horse Racing News
The Black Cloud out to break winning drought at Randwick races
Trainer Joe Pride is hoping that delaying The Black Cloud’s return by a week will pay off when she lines up at Randwick on Saturday to cap off her four-year-old season. The mare missed the Schweppes Sprint (1100m) last week after drawing a poor gate but now has a much more...
Waller rolls out stars at Randwick trials
Group 1-winning mare Via Sistina has made her seasonal debut with a soft trial at Randwick as preparations ramp up for a spring return in the Winx Stakes (1400m) next month. Trainer Chris Waller sent the Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner around in Tuesday’s opening 850m heat on the Kensington track, where...
Jockey Craig Williams happy to remain in title race
Craig Williams is making a determined push for his tenth Melbourne Jockeys’ Premiership, landing a treble at Flemington to close the gap on Blake Shinn as the race for the title intensifies. With just 25 metropolitan races remaining this season, Williams trails Shinn by five wins. Although he had reduced the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...