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Bjorn Baker believes an “announcement is imminent” regarding Overpass securing a slot for The Everest at Randwick on October 15. Speaking during Monday’s 2YO barrier trials at Randwick, Baker indicated that a decision was likely be the end of the week. With six slot holder still yet to announce their contender, speculation is that it is a decision between James Harron Bloodstock and James ...
Dual Breeders' Cup winner Golden Pal, the 4YO, may go back to the dirt for his next start, trainer Wesley Ward. The 4YO son of Uncle Mo, who has made 10 of 11 career starts on the turf, made his racing debut in the spring of 2020 with a runner-up finish sprinting 4 1/2 furlongs on the main track at Gulfstream Park. "We wanted to give him a nice easy workout with Julio Garcia, who has been ...
The running of last Saturday’s $1m Bowermans Shorts (1100m) at Rosehill was always going to be an Everest-style clash between the top chances for the upcoming $15m Everest, with Chris Waller’s Champion Nature Strip giving his rivals a thumping….once again. Having won the Gr1 George Main Stakes the race prior, jockey James McDonald highlighted once again that he is one of the best we have seen, ...
Snapdancer, the brilliant dual Group 1-winning mare, will give trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace their first runner in the $15m The TAB Everest at Royal Randwick next month. Sebastian Hutch, the chief executive of Inglis Bloodstock, confirmed on Thursday that Snapdancer had been locked in for the Inglis-owned Everest slot. Inglis compiled a video announcing Snapdancer as their Everest ...
Lost And Running begins his second TAB Everest campaign in a red hot edition of the Group 2 $1 million Bowermans Shorts (1100m) and O’Shea is expecting him to show he’s on track for next month’s sprint grand final. The gelding finished last in the Shorts a year ago but with excuses and he ultimately ran fourth in the Everest behind Nature Strip, Masked Crusader and Eduardo - all of which he will ...
While only finishing second in the Group 2 Run To The Rose behind the exiting In Secret, the Coolmore and partners raced Best Of Bordeaux has a little bit of Yes Yes Yes about him. With Yes Yes Yes also finishing second in the Run To The Rose, the Chris Waller trained son of Rubick went on to finish second in the Group 1 Golden Rose, before lining up in the Everest with Glen Boss in the saddle ...
Could Saturday’s history making winner In Secret be a contender for this year’s Everest?? Only time will tell, but the manner in which she won the Group 2 Run To The Rose over 1200m, defeating the colts and geldings, clearly highlights her above average ability. While not many fillies have contested the Run To The Rose, I Am Invincible’s In Secret is the first filly to win, and her two length ...
With syndicator Brad Spicer confident of coming to an agreement within the coming days, we could see the sixth official runner allocated a slot in this year’s Everest to be run on October 28 at Randwick. “The next 24 - 48 hours I think there will be an announcement and hopefully we can get it all done,” stated Spicer when chatting to the Everest Diaries recently. A winner of the Group 1 Robert ...
Racing first-up in the Group 3 Concorde Stakes, Joe Pride’s warhorse Eduardo (Host) gave his Everest rivals a warning that come Saturday, October 15, that the 9yo will be ready to run the race of his life and look to improve from his narrow third placed finish 12 months prior. Clearly the class runner of the Southern Cross Stakes field, Eduardo cleared out to score by over two and a half ...
While the second, third and fourth horses in Thursday’s barrier trial are already likely Everest contenders, it was Bjorn Baker’s Overpass that once again highlighted himself to slot holders as a serious contender by winning the trial, stopping the clock at 55.49 (last 600m in 36.65) in Soft 7 conditions. Getting out of the gates well and leading throughout, Vancouver’s Group 2-winning son ...
With three of the five Everest winners having resumed their spring campaigns by winning the Group 3 Concorde Stakes, Saturday’s running of the $500,000 1000m sprint sees two leading runners having already secured slots for this year’s running of the $15m race, while depending on the result, there could be further potential slot contenders. Won in 2017 and 2018 by Peter and Paul Snowden’s Redzel ...
The opening trial on Thursday at Canterbury Park will see a mini-everest with the likes of Classique Legend, Lost And Running, Nature Strip and Overpass all possibly contenders. Both Nature Strip and Lost And Running already have a slot, while previous Everest winner Classique Legend is likely to be given owner Bon Ho’s slot is he shows he is ready for the race, with Bjorn Baker still chasing a ...
