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Corner Pocket

In snooker, it’s all about precision. And in the making of picket fence builder Corner Pocket, one of two new stakes winners for surging stallion Toronado (High Chaparral) last weekend, Swettenham Stud played all the angles with consummate skill before putting their queue in the rack. The mare Baize (Commands), from which the Lindsey Smith-trained... Read More

Hopes high at expanding Cranbourne as Group 1 targets loom large

The Cranbourne training ranks have swollen in quantity and quality in the past 12 months, with the arrival of leviathan outfits and household names relocating from Caulfield. Despite the recent influx, long standing Cranbourne horsemen Enver Jusufovic and Julius Sandhu have been the flagbearers for south-east Melbourne’s excellent training facility over the past two weeks.... Read More

Whyte to again test the European-breds’ Classic credentials after Emperor’s Gold display

Douglas Whyte has put his faith in the European breed as a superior product when it comes to races over a mile plus in Hong Kong, but only when given the time and patience to flourish in what is a harsher, more alien racing arena to the open pastures they are accustomed to. That judgement... Read More

Second for Churchill

New winners Churchill (pictured above) – Coolmore shuttler Churchill (Galileo) sired his second Australian winner as the Chris Waller-trained Conqueror (2 c ex Dixie Chick by Star Witness) made a winning debut in the Schweppes Plate (1100m) at Randwick. Just a week on from siring his first Australian winner when Robusto, also trained by Waller,... Read More

Former paper boy Jusufovic hopes Pinstriped can deliver a first Group 1

As a young boy growing up in Footscray, Enver Jusufovic delivered Herald newspapers at Flemington and would regularly park his bike at the fence of the racetrack to admire the horses as they went through their paces early in the morning. Decades later, the humble Yugoslav from the Western Suburbs of Melbourne is only a... Read More

Revolutionary Miss (AUS)

Revolutionary Miss (AUS) 2 f Russian Revolution – Purcentage by Onemorenomore O: Triple Crown Syndications, Big Blue Stallions, Mr J C Williams, Mr C Johns, Mr J A Forrest, Mr J P Sennitt, Mr B Nelson, Mr R M Nicholson, Mr M E Hardwick, Mr W D’cruz, Mr P B Haigh, Dr C A Pitt,... Read More