Crystal Mile

Prowess claims Group 2 Crystal Mile

Posted on October 28, 2023
in Australian Horse Racing News

Roger James & Robert Wellwood didn't get to see their star filly Prowess () in the Cox Plate, but after Mark Zahra produced a brilliant ride on the winner, the stable will be very happy to take home the Group 2 Crystal Mile instead. A small field of six runners took part in the 1600m[...]

Posted on October 27, 2023
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Andrew Forsman is stepping his stable star Mustang Valley back down in distance for her first Australian assignment of the season. Mustang Valley will contest Saturday's A$300,000 Group 2 Crystal Mile (1600m) at Moonee Valley, joining fellow Cambridge star Prowess to provide a strong New Zealand flavour among a six-horse field. Saturday's Group 1 Cox[...]

Posted on October 26, 2023
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Pre-race indicators all point to another high-class performance from Prowess in her delayed introduction to the Melbourne spring carnival. The multiple Group One winner suffered an early setback in her preparation, but the daughter of Proisir has bounced back and ready to shine in Saturday's Group 2 Crystal Mile (1600m) at The Valley. Prowess struck[...]

Posted on October 25, 2023
in Australian Horse Racing News

The Group 2 Crystal Mile has attracted a field of six runners for this Saturday afternoon at Moonee Valley, with two New Zealand raiders leading the charge.

Posted on October 9, 2023
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

“It's been a frustrating few months for Prowess and her connections,” shared trainers Roger James and Robert Wellwood. An abscess had kept the multiple Group One winner away from her initial target, the Group 1 Memsie Stakes (1400m) last month, and a stone bruise had led to her withdrawal from a trial at Taupo. However,[...]

Posted on October 22, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

Winning jockey John Allen said he probably should've been lining up in the Cox Plate and he's capable of going further than 1600m. But triumphant trainer Annabel Neasham was just ecstatic with My Oberon's victory in the Crystal Mile at Moonee Valley, and she believes he has a bright future in Australia. The Irish import[...]

Posted on October 21, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Trainer David Browne's big game expedition to Victoria with the talented duo of Elephant and Rhinoceros will take on a new look at the weekend. Browne is in charge of the venture with wife and training partner Emma-Lee back home looking after their Cambridge operation and the separation has been made somewhat easier by the[...]

Posted on October 23, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

The absence of an established star in the Cox Plate has given Kris Lees the confidence to test Mugatoo against the country's best middle-distance horses.

Posted on October 26, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Chief Ironside has continued the successful invasion of international raiders by taking out the Crystal Mile at The Valley. The victory of Chief Ironside, trained by French-born UK-based David Menuisier, on Saturday followed the success of Hunting Horn in the preceding race, the Moonee Valley Cup. Other winners to come from the Werribee quarantine centre[...]

Posted on October 25, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Sydney trainer John Thompson is happy to forget Dreamforce's Epsom Handicap failure and believes the well-performed gelding can bounce back in the Group Two Crystal Mile at The Valley. The seven-year-old was one of the market leaders in the Group One Epsom Handicap (1600m) at Randwick on October 5 but carrying top weight of 57kg[...]

Posted on October 24, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

With an eye on next year's autumn carnival, trainer John Thompson has brought promising three-year-old Battenburg from Sydney to Melbourne for a feature race and trip away to help season the colt. Battenburg is the early $2.60 favourite for Saturday's Group Two Vase at The Valley on the undercard to the $5 million Group One[...]

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