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Popular trainer Bjorn Baker is keen to be part of the 2022 TAB Everest with 3YO Overpass and under-rated mare Belluci Babe. Expressway Stakes winner Overpass will likely take the traditional path toward the A$15m TAB Everest, after her return, by running in races like the Gr.2 Shorts and Gr.2 Premiere Stakes in the month prior to the sprint classic spectacle. “He’s just started back in ...
Gypsy Goddess’ remarkable win in the Gr.1 Queensland Oaks was the highlight of David Vandyke’s training career. The trainer was reduced to tears when Gypsy Goddess gave her rivals a galloping lesson in the Oaks. Having won the Gr.1 previously, twice with Yankee Rose and once with headline horse Alligator Blood, said this was the finest moment of his training career. The Australian Oaks runner-up ...
Queensland trainer Tony Gollan has confirmed he will not be racing Gr.2 Moreton Cup Baller in the Gr.1 Stradbroke Handicap. Winning the Moreton Cup gives direct entry to the A$1.5m contest.He already has Isotope aimed at the same race. Baller was ridden by Hugh Bowman who wins the race for the second consecutive year. Gollan had originally planned on running Baller in the Group 3 WJ Healy Stakes ...
Trained by Tony and Calvin McEvoy, Star Of Chaos finished runner-up in the Listed Desirable Stakes at Flemington beaten by 6.5 lengths by Espiona. Seven months later, Star Of Chaos gave her own galloping lesson, leading throughout under apprentice Alana Kelly to register a thumping seven-length win in the A$50,000 Thoroughbred Club Handicap for fillies under Benchmark 70 conditions becoming the ...
Group One Australasian Oaks winner Glint Of Hope will be aimed at the Gr.1 Queensland Oaks at Eagle Farm hoping for quick wins at the highest level. Co-trainers Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young will also saddle up Commander Harry and Alverdun over 2000 meters at Flemington on Saturday. The valuable daughter of Deep Impact has drawn barrier 14 and will be ridden by jockey Daniel Moor. The filly ...
Co-trainer Sam Freedman hopes to take his 3YO places after Elliptical made a winning debut in the A$50,000 Tile Importer Handicap. The A$380,000 from last year's Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale purchase will be aimed at the qualifiers for Melbourne's premier spring 3YO races. The highly-strung son of Dundeel, will not be gelded in hopes of enhancing his value next season. Jockey Mark ...
The greatest jockey in the world, jockey Lester Piggott, passed away peacefully earlier today, in Switzerland, having been in hospital for several days. The decorated jockey rode his first winner, The Chase, at Haydock in 1948 when just 12 years of age and his last win came with Palacegate Jack at the same Merseyside track in 1994, a few weeks short of his 59th birthday. He retired for a final ...
Godolphin's Charlie Appleby secured the fourth straight win in the Newmarket Stakes with Jumeirah Derby-winner Nations Pride. The Teofilo colt powered up the straight and passed the post with seven lengths in hand under William Buick; Hoo Ya Mal finished second with favourite Subastar only third. Buick and Appleby also landed the King Charles II Stakes with Noble Truth. Nations Pride was twice ...
Following a fourth place in the Dubai Sheema Classic (2022) at Meydan, William Muir hopes to aim his stable champion Pyledriver at the Coronation Cup in a bid to defend his crown at Royal Ascot next month. After a disappointing run in the Neom Turf Cup in Riyadh, the 5YO who traveled supremely well turning for home, only for Dettori to find his path blocked and finished a close fourth ...
Flying in from Dubai, popular former Hong Kong-based galloper Pakistan Star has officially started his retirement at Living Legends. The enigmatic Gr.1 winner joins 31 racing champions at the state-of-the-art retirement home, including fellow former Hong Kong star Beauty Generation. The cult hero, while extremely talented but quirky star once again got upto mischief admid his travels . The 9YO ...
Coolmore ensured that a star-studded broodmare band would visit new stallion Home Affairs this spring with the A$1.3 million purchase of Tangier at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on Wednesday. The blueblood daughter of Medaglia D’Oro, who is in foal to I Am Invincible, was offered as part of Godolphin’s 43-strong draft of mares and purchased by Tom Magnier, in conjunction with Mark ...
2022 winner of the Sam F. Davis Stakes and the Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby, Classic Causeway has been transferred from trainer Brian Lynch to Ken McPeek, Daily Racing Form reports. One of just three members from Giant Causeway's final crop, the chestnut was a splashy Saratoga debut winner last September before finishing third to Rattle N Roll in the Gr.1 Claiborne Breeders' Futurity and to ...
