New Zealand sprinter The Bostonian has added a third Australian Group One win to his record in claiming the Canterbury Stakes. A two-time Group One winner during last year's Brisbane winter carnival, The Bostonian ran down the Godolphin mare Savatiano in the $500,000 race. Well-fancied pair Standout and Alizee finished out of the placings in[...]

Paint The Town Two has relished the soft ground in recording a career-high victory at Flemington. The former New Zealand mare scored her sixth victory when successful in the Group Three Schweppervescence Trophy (1600m), her first in stakes company. Ridden by Jamie Kah, Paint The Town Two ($26) scored by a short-head win from Bam's[...]

The decision to geld well-bred galloper Fortification paid off when he charged home to win the Anzac Day Handicap at Eagle Farm. Fortification was originally trained by Gwenda Markwell at Kembla Grange but has been with Bryan and Dan Guy partnership on the Gold Coast for this campaign. There had been a reluctance to geld[...]

Farnan has rocketed to the top of Golden Slipper markets after demolishing a Todman Stakes field boasting Blue Diamond Stakes winner Tagaloa. The Tulloch Lodge youngster controlled the race from the front and quickly beat off the challenge of Blaze A Trail, accelerating clear to win by 1-3/4 lengths over Tagaloa with Blondeau almost three[...]

Trainer Terry O'Sullivan and his former apprentice Brett Prebble have wound the clock back with an emotional win in the Sires' Produce Stakes at Flemington. The victory of Lunar Fox in Saturday's Group Two race brought back memories of the pair's triumph with Winestock in the 2003. Prebble rose high in the irons as Lunar[...]

Apprentice Aiden Thompson continued his great association with in-form The Kingdom and maintained his terrific run of overall success at Eagle Farm. Thompson rode his first metropolitan Saturday winner on The Kingdom at Eagle Farm on January 18 and has now added another 15 city wins to his record. Despite a slow early pace The[...]

Champion trainer David Hayes has Golden Slipper ambitions for unbeaten Minhaaj. Minhaaj ($3.20) backed up an easy debut win at Bendigo with another dominant performance at Flemington on Saturday, winning the Group Three TBV Thoroughbred Breeders Stakes (1200m) for two-year-old fillies by 4-/1-2-lengths. Favourite Muntaseera ($2), who had finished fifth in the Group One Blue[...]

Trainer Joe Pride was a nervous wreck but he was feeling a lot better after Fasika raced away with her maiden Group success. The promising mare justified her $2.30 favouritism, bounding clear to take out Saturday's Wenona Girl Quality (1200m) at Randwick by a length over I Am Excited ($10) , who closed late with[...]

Fiona McIntyre's work in re-training and re-homing retired racehorses, including two of the late Bart Cummings' former stars, has been recognised with the Lady Of Racing Award. The annual award announced on Friday in Melbourne is run by The Victorian Wakeful Club in partnership with Racing Victoria. McIntyre retains several ex-racehorses and the horses in[...]

Kris Lees has not ruled out a Doncaster Mile tilt for Special Reward after he led home a trifecta for the local trainers in the Group Three Newcastle Newmarket. Brenton Avdulla settled the $3.40 favourite behind the two leaders and he cruised up to them before sprinting clear to win Friday's feature by 1-1/2 lengths[...]

Deprive will put his unbeaten record at Randwick on the line when he takes on some of Australia's best sprinters in the Challenge Stakes at Randwick. The five-year-old has enjoyed an incredible affinity with the track, racing at Randwick six times for as many wins, highlighted by a brace of Group Three victories in the[...]

Joe Pride is feeling the butterflies ahead of Fasika's return at Randwick and he has learned from past experience that is a good sign. The trainer of retired dual Group One winner Terravista, Pride becomes anxious every time his high-class horses race and Fasika, who resumes in the Group Three Wenona Girl Quality (1200m) at[...]

Greysful Glamour is the Sydney mare with the knack for winning in Melbourne. And her trainer Mark Newnham believes the four-year-old shapes as a strong winning hope again when she tackles the Group Three Schweppervescence Trophy (1600m) for fillies and mares at Flemington on Saturday. Greysful Glamour has won four of her 22 starts, with[...]