McNeil Stakes resumption for Perry’s untapped Group 1-winning son of Flying Artie Greg Perry, the breeder and part-owner of Group 1 winner Artorius (Flying Artie), marvels at what the new season three-year-old has been able to achieve in his short career. To the prominent industry investor, the Anthony and Sam Freedman-trained colt has already defied... Read More

Racing Victoria has hammered star jockey Jamie Kah, along with fellow riders Ben Melham, Ethan Brown and apprentice Celine Gaudray, for breaking the state’s strict Covid-19 lockdown rules.  Kah will miss the ride on leading hope Behemoth (All Too Hard) in tomorrow’s Memsie Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) after the quartet were banned from racecourses and... Read More

Haut Brion Her (Zoustar), a dual Group 2-winning six-year-old Three Bridges Thoroughbreds-bred and raced mare, has been retired and will immediately head to stud this September. The Chris Waller-trained Haut Brion Her, the first mare home in last year’s Everest (1200m) won by Classique Legend (Not A Single Doubt), will be covered by Yarraman Park... Read More

Ayrton, Annavisto and Parlophone set to step up their campaigns with lofty targets ahead Mick Price and Mick Kent Jr will hold a strong hand at Saturday’s Caulfield meeting but the training partners will resist the temptation to play their aces in any of the five stakes races on the Group 1 card, preferring to... Read More

San Domenico unlikely for Payne’s promising son of Capitalist but trainer holds Group 1 ambition for colt Gleneagles (Capitalist) could be given the chance to take on his generation’s best-credentialled three-year-olds during his spring campaign but it almost certainly won’t be this weekend. Rosehill-based David Payne, who took over the training of the colt during... Read More