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Although Front Page has suffered from injuries, he finally gets a shot at the Gr.1 level following his most impressive victory. The Corowa-based trainer has seen it all with his outstanding sprinter and believes he is at the height of his powers as he competes in the Gr.1 Champions Sprint at Flemington on Saturday against the likes of champion Nature Strip and The Everest winner Giga Kick. The ...
Michael and his brother Matthew cannot wait for their favourite week of the year: the New Zealand Cup carnival in Riccarton. There will be a large contingent representing the father-and-son training team on the first day of the carnival, with 17 of their runners expected to wear their silks. “It’s a great week, I am really looking forward to it,” Michael Pitman said. Okay Pal and My World will ...
Eight of the last ten times the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf has been run, trainers Aidan O'Brien and Charlie Appleby have placed a horse in the top two. A favourite trained by O'Brien (Arizona in 2019) and owned by Coolmore were both found in the two outliers (Hootenanny in 2014). Although trends come and go, the general consensus is that juveniles schooled in Europe in 2022 did not have a ...
The parade ring at the Breeders' Cup lasts for a full hour before each race, but European spectators are lucky to view the horses for five minutes before a race. For the Cup, the majority of the athletes competing in the 14 Grade One events spend each morning of the week leading up to the competition exercising on the track. This week, roughly 200 horses are stabled at Keeneland in Kentucky, all ...
Dramatised - This European filly has been the betting favourite in each of her three career runs. Her best result came at Royal Ascot, where she beat Love Reigns by a wide margin. At odds of 15-1 or higher, she is a fantastic bargain for Trainer Karl Burke. Love Reigns- The grass sprint is a specialty for trainer Wesley Ward, and this filly can compete with the best of them. Her first race at ...
Eight horses have been entered for the 39th running of the $6 million Longines Breeders' Cup Classic (Gr.1), which will be held on Saturday, November 5 at Keeneland. The morning line favourite is Hronis Racing, Summer Wind Equine, West Point Thoroughbreds, Siena Farm, and Woodford Racing's unbeaten Flightline, which opened at 3-5 on Monday. On Future Stars Friday, all of the Breeders' Cup stakes ...
The inclusion of "World Championships" in the name of the Breeders' Cup indicates that they will in fact be the world championships. Horses from all over the world travel to the host track each year in the hopes of taking home one of the coveted Breeders' Cup trophies. While some of the horses are yearly fixtures at the event, others are newcomers to North America, having flown in on turbojet ...
The 2022 Melbourne Cup was won by Mark Zahra on Gold Trip, reversing the jockey's previous run of bad luck. With 300 metres to go, the French-bred 6YO, who was odds-on at 18-1, took the lead and held off Emissary, with stablemate High Emocean coming in third. Deauville Legend, widely considered the race's favourite, placed fourth, behind Gold Trip. Earlier, he had come second on I'm ...
Gwenda Markwell, a Gr.1-winning trainer who lost her fight with cancer over the weekend, had a Gr.1-winning stable represented by the mare Nautical Miss, who won at Randwick. Alysha Collett, a former New Zealand jockey, dedicated her win in the Midway Handicap to the memory of her late trainer. “This is the most fitting thing for Gwenda to win this race, much respect to everyone that knows her, ...
Numerous big-race winners have raced in the distinctive colours of Waikato Stud and countless more have been bred by the world-famous nursery, but I Wish I Win has earned a unique place on their honour roll by winning a race worth A$10 million. The four-year-old son of iconic Waikato Stud sire Savabeel produced a blockbuster performance in Saturday’s XXXX Golden Eagle (1500m) at Rosehill, ...
The Joe Pride-trained Private Eye continued his rise up the ranks of Australia's best sprinters when putting a talented field to the sword in the $3,000,000 Nature Strip Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill on Saturday. Fresh off his second in The Everest, the 5yo son of Al Maher exploded down the centre of the track under Brenton Avdulla, defeating Mazu (Maurice) by one and a quarter lengths with a ...
Flightline was bred to succeed, as he is the product of the cross of the early-winning graded-stakes horse Feathered and the legendary stallion Tapit. It wasn't until September of his fourth year that people started to seriously consider what he was capable of, and now he is widely considered to be the favourite to win the Breeders' Cup Classic (Gr.1). This John Sadler trainee has had a ...
