‘There’s more incentive to race in our home state’
Racing participants in SA express delight following announcement Group 1 prize-money is set to double South Australian breeders and trainers have effusively welcomed news of a seven-year sponsorship deal bringing an immediate doubling in prize–money for the state’s four Group 1s, saying it will bring many benefits, including improvements to the state’s broodmare band. Racing... Read More
Roselyn’s Star (AUS)
2 c Shalaa – Dual Star by Starcraft Next month’s Kindergarten Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m) now looms as the next target for Roselyn’s Star (Shalaa) after the John O’Shea-trained colt got off the mark at the second time of asking at Randwick-Kensington on Wednesday. Having been beaten 0.8 lengths by Gatsby’s (Snitzel) on debut at... Read More
Meeting set to decide Goulburn’s future
On the Goulburn Race Club website it says its freehold racecourse and facilities allows it to be “in charge of its own destiny and has no constraints”. The relocation of the Goulburn racecourse, from Braidwood Road to Taralga Road, was funded in the mid-1990s by the then Fahey state Liberal government and the new course... Read More
Moore the $60 million man for Storm Boy
Coolmore makes call to Englishman to ride Golden Slipper favourite yan Moore will ride raging Golden Slipper (Gr 1, 1200m) favourite Storm Boy (Justify) in Saturday week’s $5 million race and the star jockey will be aiming to make it back-to-back wins in the crucial stallion-making contest, but for Coolmore this selection is just one... Read More
Celestial Legend
Les Bridge, 85, stunned onlookers on Saturday by declaring Randwick Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Celestial Legend (Dundeel) the best of all the horses he’s trained. That includes the outstanding Golden Slipper winner Sir Dapper (Vain), three-time Group 1 victor Drawn (Star Shower), Melbourne Cup hero Kensei (Blarney Kiss), and one Bridge didn’t have to... Read More
Black Opal winner Autumn Ballet dances into Chairman’s Sale
Dam of star Kiwi two-year-old Velocious also set to go under the hammer at Riverside he depth of the Chairman’s Sale has continued to build with a trio of high-quality race fillies and the dam of a Group 1-winning two-year-old among the latest horses set be offered at Inglis’s annual bluechip breeding stock auction. Black... Read More