On Friday, RV vets will re-examine Melbourne Cup hopefuls Gold Trip and Schabau, who passed their preliminary checks on Thursday. Inspecting Schabau, owned by Robert Hickmott and presently ranked 32nd, revealed lameness in the left front leg. RV vets passed Gold Trip, who was trained by Ciaron Maher and David Eustace, despite the fact that the horse showed minor heat in its right front foot. The ...
At the close of entries for 2022 HK$110 million LONGINES Hong Kong International Races (HKIR) at Sha Tin on 11 December, the total number of nominations for the glittering meeting grew to 172, including 53 individual Gr.1 winners. The leading Hong Kong contenders are Golden Sixty, Wellington, California Spangle, and Romantic Warrior. There are 127 overseas-trained gallopers competing in the ...
An international A-list has entered the HK$110 million LONGINES Hong Kong International Races in 2022. Among the 127 elite horses entered are 43 individual Gr.1 winners, making for a remarkable collection of potential winners at Hong Kong's premier meeting at Sha Tin on 11 December. Japan has the most entries with 63, including the two-time defending champion of the Gr.1 LONGINES Hong Kong Vase, ...
Manager Peter Burrell revealed on Tuesday that Frankie Dettori will not attempt to win his first Lexus Melbourne Cup at Flemington next Tuesday (4.00), opting instead to ride on another lucrative card at Randwick on the same day. Dettori finished second on his final mount in the 2019 Australian Derby with Master Of Reality, after which he was demoted to fourth place. In 2015, he came close to ...
Verry Elleegant, the champion Australian stayer, was withdrawn after competing in the Fillies she won Gr1 races on turf, synthetic, and grass, and at distances ranging from 7 furlongs to 2 miles. Her career culminated with a four-length victory over Incentivise in last year's Melbourne Cup. A statement from the owners read, “Verry Elleegant will rightfully take her place among the pantheon of ...
Broker Jun Park reports that grade 2-winning and stakes-placed stallion Concert Tour has arrived at Jeju-do Farm in South Korea to begin his stud career. In races owned by Gary and Mary West, their 4YO son of Street Sense came in first. On January 15, 2021, at Santa Anita Park, he won at the first try. He then won the San Vicente Stakes (Gr.2) and the Rebel Stakes in rapid succession (Gr.2). ...
Sires in the top ten in North America as per the roster and fees announced on October 26 by Coolmore America's Ashford Stud, Munnings, the sire of multiple grade 1 winner Jack Christopher, will stand for a career-high $100,000 in 2019. Munnings, who has won a grade 2 and placed in a grade 1, has established himself as one of the best stallions in the world. The son of the famous sprinter ...
Trainer Peter Moody has a healthy opinion of each of his three runners in Saturday’s $10m XXXX Golden Eagle (1500m) at Rosehill Gardens but it would appear it’s Chain Of Lightning that is capturing his imagination. Jamie Kah comes to Sydney to partner the mare and, while he has beaten Toorak Handicap favourite I Wish I Win as well as Group 1 placed Lightsaber in the race, Moody can’t help but ...
Joe Pride has never shied away from sending star sprinter Eduardo into a battle with the world’s best sprinter but he says Nature Strip’s absence from the race named in his honour at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday is huge for his chances. The Warwick Farm trainer has always said he’d love to take Nature Strip on at Rosehill but with him sitting out the $3 million Nature Strip Stakes (1300m) it ...
Queensland Oaks (Gr 1, 2400m) winner Gypsy Goddess (Tarzino) will have just one run this spring as she tackles Saturday's the $10 million Golden Eagle at Rosehill first-up, something which has always been the plan for trainer David Vandyke. “She had a very long, arduous time as a three-year-old and we just wanted to give her a nice, little preparation and the one run seemed ideal,” Vandyke told ...
Star European rider Frankie Dettori was confirmed on Tuesday morning for the $10 million Golden Eagle at Rosehill Gardens. He will partner the Chris Waller-trained import Welwal (GB) (Shalaa ). “It’s a huge honour to be training Welwal for Al Shaqab Racing and we are delighted to have secured Frankie Dettori to ride him,” Waller said via a statement. “We feel Welwal has flown under the radar ...
The 4-year-old Maurice gelding Mazu was a gallant third in The TAB Everest this month, and co-trainer Peter Snowden has confirmed the horse will relish the 1300 metres of this Saturday’s $3 million Nature Strip S. at Rosehill. “The last 200 metres of his races are getting to be the best part of him,” Snowden said. “We’re going to back his ability to front up again and put in a run like he did ...