Fresh from training her first metropolitan winner at Ascot on Saturday, Sue Olive has set her sights on scoring her first black-type win. Olive took out Saturday’s Belmont’s Bunuru Plate (1000m) with Awesome Rock filly Kaymay and is set to aim her up at the WA Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) on April 17. Kaymay settled…
DetailsApprentice jockey Kate Southam has made the decision to relocate to Perth after a short stint in North Queensland. The 27-year-old picked up a Queensland offer with trainer Carl Spry after riding Keep Your Feet at Ascot last June. Southam booted home 12 winners while away at McKay, Cairns, Townsville, Atherton, Innisfail and Home Hill.…
DetailsChampion jockey William Pike will ride Michelada in Saturday week’s $500,000 Group 2 Karrakatta Plate (1200m) at Ascot. Pike chose Michelada, a filly he knows well, having steered the daughter of Nicconi in her two starts including a win on debut in January. Pike was also in line to pick up the mount on Pat’s…
DetailsFlying Missile has catapulted herself into Karrakatta Plate calculations when scoring a runaway first win at Ascot on Wednesday. Justifying red-hot favouritism, Flying Missile easily accounted for her six rivals in the Glenroy Chaff Plate (1100m) by three lengths. Ridden by Chris Parnham, the Cable Bay filly made a brilliant beginning from barrier two and…
DetailsNeville Parnham’s quality mare Kay Cee is back in work building up for a feature winter campaign at Belmont Park. Parnham has pencilled in the Belmont Sprint, the Hyperion Stakes and Strickland Stakes as the focus for Kay Cee. “She is really good,” Parnham said. “She’s had a nice spell and needed it. “She’s been…
DetailsBy any measure it was a hectic for Perth trainer Martin Allan last week. There were his usual horse affairs to attend to, a couple that were more pressing and urgent than others that caused him some anxious moments. One of his favourite horses Time To Sizzle, a speedy winner in six of her 13…
DetailsWATCH: THE TRIAL REPORT | LARK HILL | 22 MAR 2021 Join @santassnippets and Digby Beacham as they review the highlights out of yesterday's set of heats at Lark Hill.@OfficialRWWA @TAB_Touch @TABRadio pic.twitter.com/tYRt0PqRx0 — The Races WA (@TheRacesWA) March 23, 2021
DetailsBy any measure it was a hectic for Perth trainer Martin Allan last week. There were his usual horse affairs to attend to, a couple that were more pressing and urgent than others that caused him some anxious moments. One of his favourite horses Time To Sizzle, a speedy winner in six of her 13…
DetailsRoy Rogers will saddle up a large representation of horses at Ascot including in two feature races, but he has high hopes that Fangio will be the pick of his runners on Saturday. The Albany-based horseman is enjoying the best stretch of his professional career, training 43 winners this season to exceed his previous best…
DetailsHigh-priced yearling Temptacion has emerged as a WA Oaks (2400m) contender for trainer Dan Morton after the All Too Hard filly scored another comfortable win at Ascot on Wednesday. Seven days after destroying her opposition with ease last week, Temptacion backed up and produced a similar performance to win the Autumn Ascot Racing Carnival Is…
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