While most Australian attention this weekend will be on the home front, tonight’s Saint-Cloud card is likely to be keenly watched with some familiar colours to the fore. The Criterium de Saint-Cloud (Gr 1, 2000m), the only juvenile feature in Europe at a middle distance, has surprisingly thrown up a number of horses that have... Read More

McEvoy sprinter breaks Moonee Valley 1200-metre track record, adding a fourth Group 1 to his resume Hey Doc (7 g Duporth – Heyington Honey by General Nediym) became one of those rare horses to win the same Group 1 race three years apart when taking his second Manikato Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) at Moonee Valley... Read More

The WS Cox Plate (Gr 1, 2040m) will lack its usual amphitheatre-like atmosphere when the race is run at an empty Moonee Valley today. Cox Plate day usually has about 30,000 racegoers with the countdown to the $5 million race producing scenes that are unique in world racing. Crowds get closer to the horses at... Read More

Colts by Mastercraftsman and Whitecliffsofdover lead the way British-based trainer Ivan Furtado was a familiar face among the buyers for the fourth day of Arqana’s extended October Yearling Sale when signing the winning docket for a Haras des Granges-consigned Johnny Barnes (Acclamation) filly. Furtado, who has established a satellite yard in France, struck at €21,000... Read More

Frankie Lor roared to second in the trainers’ championship thanks to a treble at Happy Valley on Wednesday night (21 October) that maintained his fruitful run of form.  The fourth-season handler made it eight wins so far in October when Heavenly Thought’s (So You Think) victory in the Class 3 Sha Wan Handicap (1650m) sealed... Read More

Kiwi mare will join likes of Ajax, Fields Of Omagh, Sunline and Winx if she captures centenary victory Probabeel (Savabeel) will have to emulate some of the greatest horses to have stepped foot onto the Moonee Valley turf if she is to take out the centenary Cox Plate (Gr 1, 2040m) tomorrow, but history is... Read More