New winners Double for Outreach – Widden Stud’s first season sire Outreach (Exceed And Excel) sired two new winners on Sunday. Outreach Belle (2 f ex Navarino Gold by Lion Heart) broke her maiden at Grafton over 1000 metres, while Rose Sauvage (2 f ex Turbo Rose by Strategic) was victorious at Coonamble over 1100... Read More

Kiwi trainer Stephen Gray felt bad for the big party of owners who had come down to Kranji to see Heavenly Dancer’s (Echoes Of Heaven) race debut when their pride and joy blew the start yesterday. Hopes and excitement had been building up in anticipation of the three-year-old’s first race, but they can all be... Read More

Inglis yesterday announced that next month’s Australian Easter Yearling Sale will be conducted on an invitation-only basis, with the sales house attempting to proceed with its flagship auction in the wake of the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis. This comes as Magic Millions begins its March Yearling Sale at the Gold Coast this morning, with the Bundall... Read More

The first win of Excellent Moon (Excelebration) at his 17th start in a Class 5 race on Friday night would normally not get much press, but to trainer Hideyuki Takaoka, it was an extra special moment. The Australian-bred four-year-old is out of a mare who took Takaoka to great heights at Kranji in a not... Read More

It was an all-West Australian affair in the second running of the All-Star Mile (1600m) at Caulfield yesterday as Grant and Alana Williams landed the quinella with the Bob Peters-owned pair Regal Power (Pierro) coming home first, ahead of Australian Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) runner-up Superstorm (Sebring). Stable jockey William Pike had the choice of... Read More

Derek Leung capped a steely treble at Sha Tin yesterday when Simply Brilliant (Frankel) earned just reward in the afternoon’s feature, the Class 1 Lung Cheung Handicap (1600m).  Leung left little to chance on the Frankie Lor-trained chestnut, a lesson learned from a luckless defeat the time before at Happy Valley. On that occasion, the... Read More