Racing News
Expectations high as Yulong’s foaling season kicks off
A host of star mares including Hungry Heart and Away Game set to deliver first produce Yulong Stud’s mammoth investment in broodmares in recent years is about to bear some of its most royally bred fruit, as a selection of Australia’s better-performed modern racemares prepare to deliver their first foals at the Victorian farm. Five... Read More
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Belardo Boy strikes in Winter Cup
Awapuni visitor Belardo Boy (Belardo) claimed the first stakes race of the new season when he came with a determined late run to capture the Winter Cup (Gr 3, 1600m) at Riccarton yesterday. The Lisa Latta-trained five-year-old had been blocked for a run when finishing seventh in the Opunake Cup (Listed, 1400m) at his last... Read More
Progressive mare I Am Me leads them a merry dance in Missile Stakes
Season’s stakes-race opener goes the way of Dynamic Syndications’ colour bearer in an all-the-way triumph A slight drop back in grade yesterday saw I Am Me (I Am Invincible) land her maiden Group-race success as she dominated the Missile Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) at Rosehill, the opening stakes contest of the season in Sydney. Having... Read More
Missile shapes as a last chance saloon for regally bred Argentia
Breeding barn beckons if Frankel mare doesn’t fire at Rosehill for her new trainer Pride Regally-bred stakes-winning mare Argentia (Frankel) could be on her last chance to forestall a second scheduled retirement to the breeding barn in Sydney’s first black type race of the season for new trainer Joe Pride today. John Camilleri’s five-year-old, a... Read More
‘We just want to focus on the grand final’
Star juveniles make early season reappearance at Sydney barrier trial session An imposing array of three-year-old talent from Coolmore was on show at Canterbury’s barrier trials yesterday, as a quartet headed by Golden Slipper (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Shinzo (Snitzel) and $3 million stablemate Kandinsky Abstract (Zoustar) returned for their spring campaigns on the first... Read More
Goodwood all set for a Glorious week of action
The five-day Glorious Goodwood meeting kicks off in West Sussex today, it’s a week famous for panama hats, linen suits and of course a host of top-class racing. With three Group 1s throughout the week, kicking off with the Goodwood Cup (Gr 1, 2m) today, the Sussex Stakes (Gr 1, 1m) tomorrow, while the Nassau... Read More