Category: Australian Racing

Godolphin’s Tamerlane will need to set a modern-day weight-carrying record for the Listed $200,000 Civic Stakes (1400m) after being allocated topweight of 59.5kg for the feature sprint at Royal Randwick on Saturday.The Civic Stakes has attracted 26 entries with the James Cummings-trained Tamerlane conceding between 1.5kg and 5.5kg to his rivals.In recent years, Ninth Legion…

Lindsay Park trainer Ben, Will and J D Hayes had Derby aspirations with Rise At Dawn, but they were equally as happy to come away with a narrow Flemington win.Rise At Dawn was coming off a short break to claim the RDAV Mary Longden Mile (1600m) on Saturday, his first run since April.Ridden by apprentice…

Tim Clark says French import Eliyass has the scope to make his presence felt in the spring after dominating at his Australian debut in the Lord Mayors Cup at Randwick.While many former European horses take a preparation to acclimatise to local conditions, the five-year-old made an immediate impact.Trailing the solid tempo set by stablemate and…

Quick Tempo has been an excellent money spinner for the Mark Minervini stable with seven wins and over $400,000 in prize money and the Newcastle based trainer is hoping the gelding can win his first listed race in Saturday’s Bob Charley AO Stakes (1100m).The five-year-old put in the best performance of the preparation last start…

Leap To Fame has run second in the $2.1m TAB Eureka and won the $1m Miracle Mile, but a lowly $32,376 race at Albion Park on Saturday night looms as one of the most important of his career.That’s because the Flashing Red Handicap will be the champion pacer’s first try at standing-start racing and go…

Think About It will have to defy history to go back-to-back in the $3m Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap after handicappers hit him with 58kg in the feature event.Racing Queensland chief handicapper Nathan Bourke released the weights of 126 horses on Monday, with the Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman-trained I Wish I Win hit with the…

Which Amade will turn up to contest the Sandown Cup?That is the question trainer Phillip Stokes would like to answer in the positive, but the gelding’s barrier antics at the start of the 3200m Listed race today will have a big bearing on the outcome.Amade has the potential to take out today’s race, but he…

Co-trainer Peter Moody has a proven track record with fillies in the Queensland Derby and is hopeful Autumn Angel can measure up in the Group 1 feature at Eagle Farm today.Moody, who co-trains with Katherine Coleman, is confident Autumn Angel has progressed since her eye-catching second to the Chris Waller-trained Tannhauser in the Group 3…

Some encouraging feedback from one of the country’s best jockeys has trainer Kelly Schweida optimistic that El Morzillo can handle a distance rise in the Group Two Sires’ Produce Stakes at Eagle Farm.The filly will extend to 1400 metres for the first time tomorrow and Schweida admits he isn’t sure whether the extra 200 metres…

Tasmanian galloper First Accused is returning to Caulfield in a bid to breakthrough for his maiden win on the Melbourne city course.First Accused runs in the Ern Jensen Funerals Mile (1600m) tomorrow having run second in two of his three previous attempts at the track.The Glenn Stevenson -trained galloper was beaten by D’Aguilar at Caulfield…