Not, alas, that I know how many he has. I can only take a guess. And this musing is not confined to Weir. I’d be curious to know how many horses each trainer has – a strike rate of winners to individual horses. Another benchmark by which we may judge them. I wonder how many... Read More

The Lindsay Park-trained two-year-old colt Mulk followed placings in four of his first six starts with an impressive win over older opposition here. He began well from barrier four and was soon crossed to the front by jockey Damien Oliver. He settled well and gradually lifted the pace nearing the 600 metre mark. With 200... Read More

Already the Queensland Oaks (Gr 1, 2200m) winner Egg Tart (Sebring) has indicated that she has the potential to be a force in the spring, displaying a brilliant turn of foot in her impressive late-closing victory at Doomben a week earlier. Ruthven certainly is not in the same mode as Egg Tart, a fast turn... Read More

The two-year-old filly was dropped in behind the leaders in fifth by Seamie Heffernan in the early stages of the contest, but crept into contention approaching the home straight and was produced to lead a furlong from home. The filly, who holds an entry for the Moyglare Stud Stakes (Gr 1, 7f) later in the... Read More

There has arguably never been a better front-running straight track sprinter than Choisir and he ably demonstrated that twice, in five days, at the Royal Meeting. Racing Post journalist Graham Dench recently described his presence as ‘intimidating’ and wrote of his performances ‘changing the nature of international sprinting for the next decade or so’. His... Read More

It was the handsome colt’s third win and second stakes success after the Stan Fox Stakes (Gr 2, 1500m) but this still maturing horse has this season shown great potential of better wins to come with a string of placings up to Group One level plus three fourths in Group One contests. On Saturday he... Read More