Mick Price could follow the successful blueprint employed by fellow Caulfield trainer Grahame Begg two years ago after his “workmanlike” juvenile filly Cavalla (Nicconi – Bella Corona by Beautiful Crown) won the opening two-year-old race of the Australian season at Flemington yesterday. Cavalla ($12) upstaged Godolphin’s Contemporary (Exceed And Excel) ($2.10 favourite) in the Darley... Read More

Juveniles of first season sire again impress at yesterday’s official two-year-old hit-outs at Randwick Aquis Farm’s first season sire Spieth (Thorn Park) was the star of yesterday morning’s much anticipated official two-year-old trials on Randwick’s Kensington track, producing two impressive winners in Victory Moments and Wild Botanica. The filly, Wild Botanica, was Spieth’s first success... Read More

Great House (Galileo) asserted himself as a genuine contender for The Metropolitan (Gr 1, 2400m) at Randwick next month after an impressive win in yesterday’s Newcastle Cup (Gr 3, 2300m). Trained by Chris Waller and raced by a syndicate of owners including former VRC Chair Amanda Elliott and Sir Winston Churchill’s grandson Sir Nicholas Soames... Read More

Laming confident Newhaven Park-bred three-year-old can live up to early promise The endorsement of Newhaven Park’s John Kelly was enough for Richard Laming to take a punt on a filly by the NSW stud’s first season sire Xtravagant (Pentire) and, 20 months later, the now three-year-old Xtra Gear can go a long way to justifying... Read More

Ryan McEvoy, one of the figures behind powerful Victorian Alliance colts fund headed by his employer Rosemont Stud, liked what he saw from the new partnership’s first two juveniles to officially barrier trial at Cranbourne yesterday, but he has been around long enough not to get ahead of himself. Nevertheless, Rosemont Stud’s general manager of... Read More