The ultra–talented Return To Conquer (Snitzel) entered Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) calculations as he extended his unbeaten record to four and in the process delivered Te Akau its 100th Group 1 winner when he landed Saturday’s Sistema Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) at Ellerslie. In the lead up to New Zealand’s newly minted ‘Champions... Read More

The famous royal blue silks of Godolphin were highly prominent at both Randwick and Flemington on Saturday as His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s near 60-year operation scooped an across-the-cards feature-race four-timer. In what proved to be a red-letter day for Godolphin, the quartet of winners began with Tempted’s (Street Boss) success in... Read More

Plenty of Kiwi eyes would have been on the action at Ellerslie’s Champions Day on Saturday, but all eyes at Cambridge Stud were fixed firmly on their mare Joliestar (Zoustar) in Newmarket Handicap (Gr 1, 1200m) and they were not disappointed as the crack sprinter delivered a dominant performance in Flemington’s time-honoured handicap. The Chris... Read More

Vinery Stud’s first-season sire Ole Kirk (Written Tycoon) had a winning across-the-cards double on Friday, taking his individual winner’s tally to four.  Prestige Ole (2 c ex Major Wager by Exceed And Excel) provided the Golden Rose (Gr 1, 1400m)-winning stallion with his third winner when scoring in the opening contest at Ballarat.  Ridden by... Read More

Four juvenile trials were conducted at Rosehill on Friday morning and the Bjorn Baker-trained Lavender Rose, an unraced filly by Russian Revolution (Snitzel), clocked the quickest two-year-old time of the morning when she covered 900 metres in 54.87 seconds.  Last sighted finishing second in a 740-metre Randwick trial, the filly defeated $1 million colt Federalist... Read More