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 ...
Leading Australian sprinter Artorius will remain in Europe for a crack at another Group One having run with great credit in the July Cup. Sam and Anthony Freedman’s speedball backed up his excellent run when third in the Platinum Jubilee at Royal Ascot by filling the same spot behind Alcohol Free in Saturday’s July Cup at Newmarket. The decision has now been taken to remain in the Northern ...
Frankie Dettori showcased exactly what makes him special when Fanny Logan emphatically won the Gr.2 Hardwicke Stakes under Dettori, who recorded his 70th Royal Ascot winner. At three furlongs to go in the Hardwicke, things were not always very glorious. Fanny Logan made the turn for home in last, but in what proved to be something of a slingshot maneuver from Dettori, the John Gosden-trained ...
When John Gosden told the assembled media at a pre-Royal Ascot press event that keeping Stradivarius interested in racing at the age of eight and with a stud career still ahead of him presented unique challenges, the underlying statement we assume is that the three-time Gold Cup hero will be making his swan song at the 2022 Royal Ascot Gold Cup. He showed us that the fire still burns when ...
Leading Australian trainer Chris Waller has confirmed that Nature Strip will not run again at this year’s Royal Ascot carnival. On Tuesday, Nature Strip showcased precisely what has catapulted him to the highest echelon of international racing and more than £10 million in prize money when passed the post with four and a half lengths in hand over Twilight Calls, shot Acklam Express and Mooneista ...
Top Australian sprinters trained by Chris Waller, Nature Strip, and Home Affairs were put through their paces at the Berkshire venue on Friday. Nature Strip, the world’s top-rated sprinter, is on course for a mouth-watering clash with American raider Golden Pal in the King’s Stand Stakes on Tuesday, while Home Affairs runs over a furlong further in Saturday’s Platinum Jubilee Stakes. Galloping ...