The once-in-a-horse’s-lifetime chance at an old-fashioned plunge from the bush may have narrowly come unstuck, but Scone trainer Brett Cavanough feels one-time ugly duckling Cerons (Street Boss) can take the next step in a surprising career in Saturday’s Inglis Millennium (RL, 1100m). Eyes and ears around Victoria sprung open when Cavanough, a man not known... Read More

OTI Racing’s Lady Laguna (Overshare) again showed how she had blossomed into a formidable four-year-old by scoring her third straight win and her first at Group level in the Southern Cross Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) in slick time at Rosehill yesterday.  Bought as a foal out of the paddock from Victoria’s ill-fated Spendthrift Farm by... Read More

Four-year-old mare Vagrant (Pariah) provided her sire with a second stakes winner when she completed a winning hat-trick in barnstorming style at Caulfield yesterday in the Geoffrey Bellmaine Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m). Jumping from gate two, the Mitch Freedman-trained Vagrant settled at the back of the eight-mare field and was still some six lengths behind... Read More

Coleman (Pierata) remained unbeaten and shot to favouritism for the Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) with a breathtaking victory in yesterday’s Chairman’s Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) at Caulfield. A $550,000 Gold Coast purchase last year for his trainer Matt Laurie and Justin Bahen Bloodstock, Coleman started a $2.10 favourite in the five–horse field for... Read More

Tulloch Lodge strengthen their already ironclad grip on the juvenile ranks with fine two-year-old stakes double in Sydney Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott’s magical two-year-old onslaught grew only stronger when they swept yesterday’s juvenile features at Rosehill, with Lady Of Camelot (Written Tycoon) streaking away to win the Widden Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m), while Prost... Read More