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Smith hoping Millie De Lune can give Winx Guineas a ‘big shake’
Trainer Matt Smith is confident bargain buy Millie De Lune (Puissance De Lune) can add black type to her CV in the eastern states’ last three-year-old stakes race of the season at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday. And though it’s unlikely to launch quite as grand a career as it did for the famous female... Read More
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Wootton Bassett’s Whirl gets her Group 1 in Pretty Polly
Whirl (3 f ex Salsa by Galileo) made up for her desperately close runner-up finish in the Epsom Oaks (Gr 1, 1m 4f) when she put in a brave display to win the Pretty Polly Stakes (Gr 1, 1m 2f), becoming the 15th individual Group 1 winner for Coolmore’s star shuttler Wootton Bassett (Ifrraaj) in... Read More
Elamaz makes successful Australian bow
Elamaz (5 g Gleneagles – Emiyna by Maria’s Mon) got his Australian career off to the perfect start when he took out Saturday’s W J McKell Cup (Listed, 2000m) at Rosehill. In an impressive training performance from Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, Elamaz was having his first start beyond 1600 metres on Saturday and his... Read More
Colt bids to enhance his family’s prolific legacy
Trainer Robert Heathcote is hoping to continue the remarkable success his stable has enjoyed with the progeny of Funtantes (Easy Rocking) when his homebred colt Fabulantes (Star Turn) contests the Tattersall’s Stakes (Listed, 1400m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Funtantes won ten races – including three in stakes company – during her career on the... Read More
Eustace in seventh heaven as Time For Sandals delivers trainer second Group 1
Time For Sandals (Sands Of Mali) took the incredible week of her trainer Harry Eustace to another level when she shed her maiden tag in the Commonwealth Cup (Gr 1, f) on the fourth day of Royal Ascot. The stunning victory of OTI Racing’s Docklands (Massaat) in Tuesday’s Queen Anne Stakes (Gr 1, 1m) gave... Read More
Trawlerman goes one better in the Gold Cup with all-the-way victory
With no champion stayer Kyprios (Galileo) to deal with this time, the John and Thady Gosden-trained Trawlerman (Golden Horn) triumphed in Thursday’s coveted Gold Cup (Gr 1, 2m 4f) at Royal Ascot. Having gone down by just a length in the 2024 renewal behind the Aidan O’Brien-trained winner, Trawlerman once again had a Ballydoyle challenger... Read More