Category: Australian Racing

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…

Finding suitable races for a dour stayer at this time of year is a challenge for even Australia’s most accomplished horsemen, just ask Chris Waller.Waller has his sights set on Selino defending his Brisbane Cup crown but says working out how to get him there has required a bit of novel thinking.The horse hasn’t won…

Tony Gollan knows this Saturday’s Kingsford Smith Cup will be the toughest test of Antino’s career, but he is confident the five-year-old can be a factor in the $1 million event.Queensland’s leading trainer has described the 1300-metre event, one of two Group 1 races at Eagle Farm this Saturday, as the race of the Winter…

It’s not every day you see a horse firm from $101 to $11 in the blink of an eye in a betting market on a Group 1 race.But so impressive was the thumping last-to-first romp of Kiwi three-year-old First Innings at Ipswich on Wednesday, bookmakers didn’t miss a second when giving the Andrew Forsman-trained gelding…