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The Winstar Farm stallion that sired 216 stakes winners behind Danehill, Sadler's Wells, and galileo and 13 champions worldwide, More Than Ready, was euthanized the morning of Aug. 26 at the Central Kentucky farm due to the "cumulative effects of old age." One of the most influential international sires of his era is a rare stallion to achieve elite status in both the Northern and Southern ...
Peter Snowden-trained Mazu finished in second place behind Bjorn Baker’s O’President at the Rosehill trials with Masked Crusader just under a length behind Mazu. Last year’s Everest runner-up Masked Crusader had a below par autumn as he missed a place in all three starts but the signs in his trial were there that he can bounce back after finishing 11 lengths astern of Nature Strip in the TJ ...
Winning the first Group 1 of the Victorian racing season, Ciaron Maher and David Eustace’s 6yo mare Snapdancer, a daughter of Coolmore’s Royal Ascot hero Choisir, had made a play for the $15 Everest by recording a stunning all the way win in the Memsie Stakes. Won a few years back by Vega Magic, who went to finish second, beaten three parts of a length behind Redzel in the first running of the ...
Newgate Farm’s Henry Field said In The Congo is likely to target the feature Melbourne sprints this spring rather than be set for The Everest – unless Nature Strip shows he is vulnerable. “We haven’t ruled out The Everest with In The Congo but at the moment we prefer to head towards the Manikato Stakes,’’ Field said. “He will resume in the McEwen Stakes and then probably go to the Moir Stakes. ...
Lumping 60kgs and settling last, Masked Crusader did what was expected and charged home at a rate of knots under Jye McNeil to win the Listed The Heath 1100 last season on this weekend 12 months ago. Although this Saturday we see the running of the 2022 The Heath 1100, there doesn’t appear to be any ‘Everest’ class runners, but only time will tell. Already a winner of the Gr1 William Reid Stakes ...
Two leading contenders for this year’s TAB Everest took to the barrier trials on Tuesday at Rosehill, with connections of both runners sure to have walked away from the 900m trial extremely satisfied with the efforts. Peter and Paul Snowden’s Group 1 Doomben 10,000 winner Mazu, a son of exciting Japanese sire Maurice, was having the first trial this time in off the back of his exciting unbeaten ...
Set to race in The Everest slot of the TAB, the John O’Shea trained Lost And Running (Per Incanto) took his first public step to this season’s $15m sprint contest by finishing second in a 850m barrier trial last Friday behind Bjorn Baker’s super-fast Malkovich. Ridden by regular jockey High Bowman, Lost And Runing impressed Bowman who enthused to the media post-trial. “It’s nice to have him ...
Having finished third last year when beaten less than half a length behind Nature Strip (Nicconi) and Masked Crusader (Toronado), Joe Pride’s gallant war-horse Eduardo (Host) will contest The Everest for the third consecutive year, racing in the Yulong slot in 2022. With two barrier trials under his belt this time in, winning over 816m at Warwick Farm on August 5, before a narrow second to ...
Saturday will see the running of the $175,000 Listed Regal Roller Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield with past winners including Vega Magic (Lope De Vega) and Osborne Bulls (Street Cry), who just two starts after their wins, went on to finish in the money of their running’s of The Everest. Trained at the time by David Hayes and Tom Dabernig, Lucky Vega (pictured) came into the 2017 Listed Regal Roller ...
Trent Edmonds never lost faith in he and his father Toby’s ability to train horses but Saturday’s shock Gr.2 Missile Stakes victory by Hard Empire helped remind the wider racing public that the Gold Coast-based pair know what they’re doing when they have the right stock. Soon after the 9YO gelding upset the likes of Group One-winning mare Forbidden Love. Trent posted on social media: “We haven’t ...
Edward, son of multiple Gr.1 winning trainer Anthony Cummings and grandson of the ‘Cups King’ Bart Cummings, is out to give his family a fourteenth win in the race that stops the nation, should Duais salute on the first Tuesday in November. After the release of the nominations for the Cup last Tuesday, it’s Edward Cummings’ mare Duais who is the joint favorite for the race, sharing favouritism ...
Top Australian trainer Michael Freedman hopes to give star mare Forbidden Love a wide berth land a slot in The Everest this year as his multiple Gr.1 winner prepares for a potential early spring return next week. Forbidden Love is targetted A$250,000 Gr.2 Missile Stakes (1200m) and took important strides towards the spring opener with The Invitation (1400m), worth A$2m also an appealing target ...
