Friar Fox scored a brilliant win in the Natasha Stakes (2200m) at Ascot on Saturday, confirming in no uncertain terms she is the horse to beat in next Saturday week’s Group 3 WA Oaks (2400m). Such was the nature of Friar Fox’s victory, 2 ¾ lengths over here nearest rival, Modern Mews, Tabtouch has slashed…
DetailsCo trainer Dan Pearce is confident Agent Pippa can follow in the same path as stable mate Money Maher and reassert her claims for next month’s Group 2 Karrakatta Plate (1200m). Money Maher cast aside two indifferent runs and breathed new life into his WA Derby (2400m) campaign when he scored a top win in…
DetailsEmma Stent is impatient by nature. So it makes the past few years intolerable for the young jockey. Early mornings, track work and the competitiveness of race riding is what she is all about. Rest, recovery, recuperation and the endless boredom of rehabilitation is something she is certainly not. Unfortunately for Stent, that has been…
DetailsCouleur Bizarre’s popular victory in the Bunbury Cup realised a life-long dream for trainer Chris Stelmach and her partner Jerry. The Stelmach’s have been mainstays of Bunbury racing for nearly 30 years, but success in their home town cup had eluded them. The closest the husband and wife team got to winning the Bunbury Cup…
DetailsAlan Mathews fears Paul Harvey’s sublime riding skills presents the biggest threat to Rock Giselle turning the tables on Dark Alert at Bunbury this afternoon. Rock Giselle and the Joe Miller-trained Dark Alert face off against each other in a return battle in the $120,000 Listed XXXX-Gold Bunbury Cup (2200m). The pair fought out a…
DetailsTrainer Steve Wolfe modestly downplayed his role in revitalising Red Ora after the gelding won the $120,000 Listed Amelia Park Bunbury Stakes (1400m) on Wednesday. Aiden by a gem of a ride by Shaun McGruddy, who took off before the turn, Red Ora, lumping 59kg, charged home to defeat Oliver’s Travels by 3/4 of a…
DetailsA concerned Lindsey Smith admits there are worrying signs over the immediate future of his Group 1 champion Scales Of Justice. Smith believes Scales Of Justice is still feeling the effects of his Melbourne debut in the Bobby Lewis Quality (1200m) at Flemington last spring. Scales Of Justice ran second to Redkirk Warrior, but could…
DetailsNeville Parnham is hoping he will have a big say in the outcome of the $120,000 Listed Amelia Park-Bunbury Stakes on Wednesday. Chasing his first win in the 1400m sprint, Parnham has a potent team in place with Ellicazoom and Wrinkly leading his charge. Ellicazoom is a quality mare who looks primed second-up, but Parnham…
DetailsPeter Hall says he is excited to be reunited with Roger The Roman in the Listed Amelia Park-Bunbury Stakes (1400m) on Wednesday. Hall teams up with Roger The Roman for the first time since last year’s breakout run in the Hannans Handicap (1400m) in Kalgoorlie. After a stunning Broome campaign that netted an unbeaten sequence…
DetailsLady Cosmology continued trainer Simon Miller’s hot streak in the Supremacy Stakes (1000m) when she set a race record to win the Listed race on debut at Ascot yesterday. Sending an ominous warning to her rivals ahead of next month’s Karrakatta Plate (1200m), Lady Cosmology showed gate speed to lead from barrier four for jockey,…
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