Category: Australian Racing

While east of the divide has been ‘deluge city’ all week, Goulburn Race Club has been radar riding the weather in recent days hoping that it won’t spoil their country showcase offering today.The eight-race card offers almost $500,000 in prizemoney with the $200,000 Goulburn Australia Goulburn Cup the prized feature.This year the club’s blue-ribbon race…

Champion Via Sistina is attempting to become the oldest mare to win a Group 1 race in 80 years at Royal Randwick on Saturday.Via Sistina, the Horse of the Year-elect, makes her eight-year-old season debut in the $1 million Winx Stakes (1400m).If the Chris Waller-trained Via Sistina can go back-to-back in the Winx Stakes, she…

Phase two of Lindsay’s Park’s plan to build on the late Mike Moroney’s work with the smart sprinter Oak Hill will occur in Saturday’s Carlyon Stakes at The Valley.Oak Hill was one of a number of horses that moved into the Lindsay Park operation after the Melbourne Cup-winning trainer’s sudden passing earlier this year along…

Chris Waller is full of praise for his star mare Via Sistina as she builds towards another high-profile campaign, with her return to racing slated for the Winx Stakes (1400m) on August 23 at Randwick.The reigning Cox Plate winner, Via Sistina has been a standout performer over the past year, racking up seven Group 1…

The start will be the same but Enver Jusufovic wants a longer journey with stable star Pinstriped in his latest spring campaign.Pinstriped provided Jusufovic with his greatest high in racing when he won last year’s Group 1 Memsie Stakes at Caulfield after a solid second in the Group 2 PB Lawrence Stakes a fortnight earlier.Pinstriped…

Connections of She’s Bulletproof have decided against launching her spring campaign in Group 1 company, instead opting to kick off in the Group 3 The Heath (1100m) at Caulfield on August 30.The mare was briefly considered for the Group 1 Moir Stakes (1000m) at The Valley on September 6, but trainer Charlotte Littlefield said her…

Racing New South Wales’ decision not to reprogram the Missile Stakes is set to be Melbourne’s gain with Private Eye in line to resume in this Saturday’s PB Lawrence Stakes at Caulfield.Private Eye was an acceptor for the $300,000 Group 2 Missile Stakes, which was abandoned when last Saturday’s Randwick meeting was called off and…

Private Harry has strengthened significantly for his spring carnival assault on The Everest where the unbeaten sprinter will wear a specially designed set of silks.Kurrinda Bloodstock’s Sean Driver is planning an audacious bid for the mega-rich The Everest-The Kosciuszko double this spring carnival. Driver’s exciting, unbeaten sprinter Private Harry has already secured a start in…

Astute trainer David Vandyke has picked out a Group 1 Victorian spring carnival goal for exciting mare Philia after she lit up the Queensland winter carnival.David Vandyke will head back to the scene of Alligator Blood’s first Group 1 triumph when he attacks the Empire Rose Stakes with exciting mare Philia during the Victorian spring…

This year’s Kosciuszko market could be in for a minor – or even major – adjustment depending on what Gary Colvin’s highly regarded Pierata son, Cambar, can deliver at Saturday’s Randwick meeting.Wagga trainer Gary Colvin will be at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday with his 2022 Country Championships Final winner Another One and his 2025 Kosciuszko…