Tenacious California Rad seals a Chadwick double, Healthy Happy dazzles on debut
Matthew Chadwick’s renewed association with Tony Cruz blossomed at Sha Tin yesterday, as the 30-year-old fired home his second double this season, capped with victory aboard the tenacious California Rad (Fastnet Rock) in the Class 2 Chak On Handicap (1200m). “He had a lovely run and he fought on nicely, very gamely and he got... Read More
Melody Belle retains NZ Horse of the Year title
There was a tangerine glow to the 2020 New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing Awards, with the colours of Te Akau Racing the dominant element at the virtual event last night. Te Akau stable star Melody Belle (6 m Commands – Meleka Belle by Iffraaj) retained her Horse of the Year title and also headed the voting... Read More
Mills toasts Odeum’s Group 1 Guineas success as fillies syndicate builds momentum
Agent’s sales ring twist of fate provides ultimate success with late-blooming daughter of Written Tycoon In August, Saturday’s Thousand Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Odeum (Written Tycoon) was not even among the initial nominations for the three-year-old feature race and had it not been for a moment of indecision 17 months earlier the filly would... Read More
Aramaayo takes Raffles Cup in a thriller
Kranji Mile (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Aramaayo (Poet’s Voice) bounced back to his brilliant best with a stirring second Group 1 success in Saturday’s S$400,000 Raffles Cup (Gr 1, 1600m). After his Kranji Mile heroics in August, Shane Baertschiger’s former Australian Group 3 Godolphin winner (Spring Stakes over 1600m at Newcastle in 2018) naturally figured... Read More
Tycoon continues to re-Write record books
Woodside Park’s flagship stallion celebrates rare Guineas double as potential sire sons emerge Woodside Park Stud’s Written Tycoon (Iglesia) yesterday became the first horse in almost half a century to produce the winners of both the Caulfield Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) and Thousand Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) in the same year as Ole Kirk (3... Read More
Love Tap aiming to bring up Tapit’s first Australian Group 1 success
Gary West-bred three-year-old well fancied to retain unbeaten record in Spring Champion Stakes The last time breeder Gary West had a three-year-old unbeaten from four starts heading into a top-level 10-furlong feature, the contest produced as controversial a result as the racing world has seen in the modern era. West, with his wife Mary, is... Read More