Category: Australian Racing

The middle of winter is not generally a launching pad to Coolmore Stud Stakes glory, but the Lindsay Park training team hopes it will be for Hard Kick.The untapped gelding is on the cusp of kicking off a campaign that will be directed towards the prized $2 million Group 1 sprint for three-year-olds at Flemington…

Luke Cartwright celebrated a career milestone when he teamed with Wise Inlaw to claim Saturday’s $175,000 A R Creswick Stakes (1200m) at Flemington.Victoria’s leading metropolitan apprentice notched his first Stakes success when he guided the Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman-trained gelding to victory in the Listed event.It was Cartwright’s 43rd Black Type start, eight of…

Feet problems have plagued General Salute throughout his career, but the horse has put his best hoof forward at Rosehill to land an overdue win in the Listed Winter Stakes.Co-trainer Gerald Ryan revealed the five-year-old had suffered issues almost from birth and spent a year on the sidelines following his unplaced effort in the 2024…

Trainer Grahame Begg, fresh from his Group 1 triumph with Splash Back in last week’s Tatts Tiara, could add another Queensland Winter Carnival winner to his list when he sends out King Zephyr in the Listed Glasshouse Handicap over 1400m at the Sunshine Coast today.King Zephyr will be coming back 100m in distance … from…

Consistent stayer Pounding might have more seconds than a clock, but few horses deserve a win more.In that vein, trainers Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman have elected to give him another opportunity to get a victory on the board by backing him up into today’s Listed Caloundra Cup (2400m) at the Sunshine Coast.The seven-year-old has…

Neither of Alex Rae’s Creswick Sprint Series heat winners will be at Flemington for this Saturday’s final, but the young Cranbourne trainer is still a chance of lifting the trophy.Progressive gelding Blankfield will represent the stable in the $175,000 Listed 1200-metre event for three-year-olds.I’m Foxing, who brilliantly won the final Creswick heat at Caulfield last…

Toowoomba based trainer Rex Lipp was less than pleased with the ride aboard his stable star Cifrado last start in the Eye Liner Stakes at Ipswich, prompting a jockey change for this Saturday’s Listed Glasshouse Handicap at Sunshine Coast.Lipp voiced his frustration with Boris Thornton’s ride at Ipswich when held up on numerous occasions, going…

Fangirl returns to Randwick with another golden opportunity to enhance her outstanding Group 1 record when she contests the 2026 Winx Stakes.The Chris Waller-trained mare has long been regarded as one of Australia’s most reliable weight-for-age performers, and another victory in the prestigious 1400-metre feature would provide the ideal beginning to what connections hope will…

Bright, shiny, dappled, and if you were able to list golden as a colour of a horse’s coat, Abounding looked just that when paraded at Robert Heathcote’s stable before the Stradbroke Handicap.That race, though, was not to be the one as the Group 1 Tattersall’s Tiara (1400m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday for fillies and…

Biologics might have been beaten almost 10 lengths when second-last at her most recent outing, but it wasn’t a completely wasted run to Grahame Begg.It proved to the Cranbourne trainer that three-year-old daughter of I Am Invincible does not perform on Heavy tracks.The Pinecliff Racing-owned filly took no harm from the 1200-metre Flemington run on…