Those looking into the crystal ball in a bid to forecast this season’s big-race two-year-old winners may only need to look at recent history for a pointer to the future. Godolphin and Victorian trainers Anthony and Sam Freedman have had an uncanny ability to unveil a classy young horse, usually an elite juvenile, in recent... Read More

Shane Crosse believes Cox Plate (Gr 1, 2040m) winner State Of Rest (Starspangledbanner) has the pace to prove a potent force when dropped back to a mile in Sunday’s Prix Jacques le Marois (Gr 1, 1600m), where top-notch three-year-olds Coroebus (Dubawi) and Maljoom (Caravaggio) could lie in wait. State Of Rest’s biggest victories have come... Read More

Murrell and Lovett win third Preis der Diana in ten years with Andreas Wohler-trained daughter of Shamalgan Australian Bloodstock won its third Preis der Diana (Gr 1, 2200m) in a decade in Germany on Sunday, but don’t expect to see the victorious filly Toskana Belle (Shamalgan) venturing Down Under. The lightly raced three-year-old, now the... Read More

Darley’s Exceed And Excel (Danehill) became the first Australian-bred stallion to reach the landmark of 200 individual stakes winners when his daughter Natural Colour (4 f ex Safiyna by Sinndar) won the Luther Burbank Handicap (Listed, 8.5f) at Santa Rosa in the US on Saturday. Exceed And Excel is just the sixth stallion to reach... Read More

Trent Edmonds never lost faith in he and his father Toby’s ability to train horses but Saturday’s shock Missile Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) victory by Hard Empire (Hard Spun) helped remind the wider racing public that the Gold Coast-based pair know what they’re doing when they have the right stock. Soon after the nine-year-old gelding... Read More