Horse Racing
Foundry outstays to win Metropolitan
By AAP Foundry has won the Metropolitan at Randwick, giving Team Williams another win and jockey Michael Dee his first Group One triumph. The eight-year-old gelding charged to the front in the final 200m to beat fellow Victorian Big Duke ... Read More »
Carey has double the fun at Mornington
By AAP It’s always good to land a winner on your home track and trainer Pat Carey has had double the reason to celebrate at Mornington. After three-year-old Ultra Smart broke her maiden status in the Highview Accounting Mornington Handicap ... Read More »
Team Williams-Galileo land yet another Group 1 staying feature
The unmistakable blue and white racing colours of leviathan Melbourne racehorse owner Lloyd Williams were yet again seen to fore in a major Group 1 endurance event in Australia when Foundry (by Galileo) outstayed his opposition to land the $750,000, ... Read More »
Happy Clapper earns Epsom Group 1 win in race record time
It has taken 10 Group 1 starts and four previous placings for finally Happy Clapper to earn his own Group 1 win when taking the TAB Epsom Handicap (1600m) at Randwick on Saturday with top-weight of 57kg under Blake Shinn ... Read More »
Heathcote’s saying proves correct
By AAP Trainer Robert Heathcote has applied one of his favourite sayings to Pinch Passion, who has backed up on the Sunshine Coast three days after winning at Ipswich. Pinch Passion won a maiden by a narrow margin at Ipswich ... Read More »
Bowman slips Satin Slipper into Gimcrack Stakes win
Hugh Bowman took both of the traditional juvenile events at Randwick on Saturday with first the Chris Waller trained Performer in the listed Arrowfield Breeders’ Plate (1000m) and secondly with the Snowden trained Satin Slipper in the fillies listed Keeneland ... Read More »
Olive has Gaze set on Group One Underwood
By AAP Canberra trainer Nick Olive is delighted with the way Single Gaze is progressing towards her main spring goal. The mare takes another step towards the Caulfield Cup on Sunday when she lines up against polished Group One performers ... Read More »
Beau Mertens claims first Group race win
By AAP Last season’s champion Melbourne apprentice Beau Mertens has achieved one of his spring carnival goals with victory on Caulfield Guineas-bound Showtime at Moonee Valley. Mertens’ win on the Hawkes Racing-trained colt in Friday night’s Group Two Stutt Stakes ... Read More »
Track conditions, scratchings, market movers and form for Randwick
Track conditions, scratchings, market movers and form for Randwick – track Good 3 – rail in the true position for the entire circuit – 3mm of irrigation for the last 24 hours, 23mm of irrigation for the last seven days ... Read More »
I Am A Star bounces back to winning form
By AAP After three unplaced runs to start her spring campaign, Group One winner I Am A Star has bounced back to win the Stocks Stakes at Moonee Valley. Mornington trainer Shane Nichols opted not to take the mare to ... Read More »
