Lucia Valentina snapped an 11 race losing streak when proving too good in Saturday’s Group II Matriarch Stakes (2000m) at Flemington. Lucia Valentina came widest of all to win the Matriarch Stakes. Photo: Darryl Sherer Ironically her last victory came at Flemington over 2000m when the daughter of Savabeel won last year’s Turnbull Stakes. With…
DetailsThere wasn’t much between Chautauqua and Terravista again at the end of the Group I Darley Classic but Delectation dived between the pair to give Chris Waller another Group I win at Flemington. Delectation (yellow sleeves) dives between Chautauqua (gold cap) and Terravista (orange silks) to win the Group I Darley Classic at Flemington. Photo:…
DetailsTrainer Adam Durrant says the key to Illuminated winning his first stakes race will rest on how well jockey, William Pike, can get him to settle in the race. Durrant has minor concerns that a lack of perceived pace in the Listed Ascot Gold Cup (1800m) could bring Illuminated undone in the $100,000 feature. The…
DetailsVictoria Derby placegetter, Kia Ora Koutou, has almost certainly run his last race in Australia. Trainer Adam Durrant, whose father, Geoff, shares ownership in the three-year-old, said an international offer was too good to refuse. “Sadly the horse is being sold and we are in negotiations at the moment,” said Durrant on TABradio. “It’s not…
DetailsJameka ($4.60) defeated the John Thompson-trained Honesta ($8.50) by 2-1/4 lengths with the John O’Shea-trained Ambience ($4 fav) peaking on her run 200m from home, finishing third beaten 3-1/2 lengths. Maher also won last year’s Crown Oaks with Set Square. This is what the jockeys thought of the performance of their rides in the Crown…
DetailsCaulfield-based trainer Ciaron Maher went back-to-back in the Group I VRC Oaks (2500m) when Jameka proved too good for her rivals at Flemington on Thursday. Jameka proved too good for her rival fillies in the VRC Oaks on Thursday. Photo: Darryl Sherer Having defeated subsequent Victoria Derby winner Tarzino at her previous start in the…
DetailsJockey Jarrad Noske has built a strong association with Fuchsia Bandana but he can’t offer any explanation for her poor performance last time out and it’s one that he wants to completely wipe away from his memory bank. After running a bolter in the Birthday Stakes (1200m) in October when she pushed Black Heart Bart…
DetailsClint Johnston-Porter’s rise in the apprentice ranks took another step forward when he clinched the 2015 Touchstone Farm Rising Star Series at the completion of Ascot’s Melbourne Cup meeting on Tuesday. It caps a successful year for Johnston-Porter who dead-heated with Jordan Turner as Leading Country Apprentice at Racing and Wagering Western Australia’s (RWWA) Apprentice…
DetailsRoss Price admits the Group 3 Colonel Reeves Stakes (1100m) has not been a kind race to his talented sprinter, Smoko. The past two editions of the sprint have been a nightmare for the Bunbury trainer with Smoko bedevilled by injury and bad luck. In last year’s Colonel Reeves Stakes the son of Snitzel suffered…
Details2015 Melbourne Cup – Payne and her Prince stun the world Brad Waters – 03 Nov 2015 “To those who say women aren’t strong enough, get stuffed.” Prince Of Penzance and Michelle Payne are clear at the end of the 2015 Melbourne Cup. Photo: Darryl Sherer Michelle Payne had that message for the doubters after…
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