Trainer Kris Lees has given Frankely Awesome the green light to challenge Verry Elleegant again with Hugh Bowman to ride the filly in the Australian Oaks. Lees had intended to run Frankely Awesome against the colts and geldings in last Saturday’s Australian Derby, seven days after she finished second to the Chris Waller-trained Verry Elleegant[...]

As always before a big race, one of Winx’s owners is on hand to draw her barrier. For the last time on Tuesday that task fell to Peter Tighe ahead of Saturday’s Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick. Of nine barriers, Tighe pulled out No.9, not that it really matters to the champion who, if things[...]

One of a trio of sprinters Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien brought to Australia last spring is set to have his first start for Warrnambool-based Matthew Williams. Intelligence Cross had three starts in Melbourne during the spring, twice at Group One level, finishing close to the tail of the field on each occasion and is set[...]

Two of Queensland’s best short course sprinters, Tarzan and Whypeeo, are headed for a clash to decide which is unofficially the fastest horse in the state after trialling well at the Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast respectively. The $105,000 Bat Out Of Hell (900m), which carries a Harley Davidson motor cycle for the winning trainer,[...]

Melbourne’s wet weather has trainer Logan McGill a little concerned ahead of speedster Written Choice’s return at Sandown. While country areas of Victoria desperately need rain, McGill does not want to see any more ahead of Wednesday’s Walk For Phil Handicap (1000m). The Sandown circuit is rated in the soft range after 7mm of rain[...]

Star filly Sunlight will get another chance to land her fourth Group One win of the season, with trainer Tony McEvoy confirming his intention to run the three-year-old in next month’s TAB Classic in Adelaide. Sunlight won the Coolmore Stud Stakes for three-year-olds at Flemington last spring while her autumn campaign has included elite-level wins[...]

Trainer Tony McEvoy has South Australian Derby ambitions for last-start winner Secret Blaze who will continue on a path towards that Group One assignment when he contests the Galilee Series Final at Caulfield. Saturday’s 2400m-race for three-year-olds is one of two Listed races on the Caulfield program along with the Bel Esprit Stakes (1100m) in[...]

Mike Moroney is still unsure how many runners he will saddle up for the Group One Sydney Cup, with final acceptances to determine whether Top Of The Range gets his chance alongside stablemates Sound and Vengeur Masque in the $2 million race. “We will be paying up with all three. It’s just whether Top Of[...]

The countdown to Winx’s last start is on in earnest with the mare the centre of attention in the streets and the corridors of power. Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the mare epitomises the Australian spirit of having a go while the public has the chance to see her likeness on a wall in the[...]

Hay List’s younger half-sister Miss Siska has been taken to Sydney from Victoria in the hope she can make the field for the Group One Coolmore Legacy Stakes at Randwick. Runner-up in the Group Two Matriarch Stakes (2000m) for mares at Flemington at the end of her spring campaign when trained by Tony McEvoy, five-year-old[...]

Inglis has called for expressions of interest to fill its slot for the $14 million Everest. One of 12 original slot holders, the auction house will canvas owners and trainers of graduates of Inglis sales and says priority will be given to Inglis graduates that have been paid up for an Inglis Race Series, past[...]