Best Solution has confirmed a trip to Australia for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups with victory in Germany's most prestigious race, the Grosser Preis Von Baden at Baden-Baden. Having struck at the top level at Hoppegarten last month, the Godolphin-owned four-year-old produced another big performance to give trainer Saeed bin Suroor a third win in[...]

Victoria's premier trainer Darren Weir has already started spring in dominant fashion and budding star Nature Strip is waiting in the wings to make his first appearance of the season. A week after training five winners at Caulfield on Saturday, Weir will send Nature Strip to the Group Two McEwen Stakes (1000m) at Moonee Valley[...]

Trainer Tony McEvoy is changing tack with Sunlight with a view to a potential start in the Group One Golden Rose. The three-year-old will get the chance to press her claims when she runs in Saturday's Group Two Run To The Rose (1200m) at Rosehill. Sunlight has raced on nine occasions winning six times with[...]

While racegoers have now seen several Everest contenders in action, the focus turns to the return of Trapeze Artist, the favourite for the $13 million race. Trainer Gerald Ryan kept an eye on Saturday's sprint races at Randwick and Caulfield but is more than happy with his charge who will resume in the Group Two[...]

Multiple stakes winner Crack Me Up has trialled well in the lead-up to an attack on the Melbourne spring carnival. Crack Me Up won a trial at Deagon on Thursday over 1000m in handy time for the morning. The five-year-old is listed in the market for the Epsom Handicap at Randwick later this month but[...]

Too Darn Hot has been promoted to favouritism for the Epsom Derby and 2000 Guineas following his high-class display to win the Solario stakes at Sandown. An impressive seven-length winner on debut over a mile, the John Gosden-trained colt was stepping up in class but down in distance for the Group Three race over seven[...]

Sydney sprinter Ball Of Muscle has repelled the army of Darren Weir-trained sprinters in the Group Three Heath at Caulfield to claim a satisfying win for his trainer Joe Pride. Pride has enjoyed great success with some of the progeny of the late broodmare Parfore, highlighted by Group One wins with half-brothers Terravista and Tiger[...]

Trainer Peter Snowden has greeted the winning return of Pure Elation at Randwick with pure relief. The filly showed a brilliant turn of foot to win Saturday's Group Two Furious Stakes (1200m) at her first start since she suffered a bleeding attack shortly after her win in the Percy Sykes Stakes in the autumn, incurring[...]

Darren Weir says it takes a decent horse to be a three-time Group One winner. Humidor joined those ranks on Saturday taking out the Memsie Stakes at Caulfield to go with previous Group One victories in the Makybe Diva Stakes and Australian Cup. The gelding also pushed Winx in last year's Cox Plate with Weir[...]

Vastly improved gelding Tversky has set trainer Jack Duncan a poser by winning his third straight race at Caloundra on Saturday. Tversky ($3.70) had led at his two previous wins but was ridden off the pace before finishing strongly to beat Fiery Heights ($4.80) by a long neck in the Bloomhill Cancer Care Handicap. The[...]

Chris Waller holds Unforgotten in high esteem but he won't put the mare against stable star Winx again despite her dominant win in the Chelmsford Stakes. The winner of the Australian Oaks in the autumn, Unforgotten started the $3.80 favourite in Saturday's Group Two Chelmsford (1600m) at Randwick off the back of an eye-catching sixth[...]

Native Soldier has moved to the second line of Caulfield Guineas betting after trouncing his McNeil Stakes rivals in a win that surprised the colt's trainer Darren Weir. Weir rates Native Soldier highly but admitted he was not expecting the three-year-old to win Saturday's Group Three McNeil (1200m) in the manner in which he did[...]

The enigmatic but popular Tom Melbourne has again come close to a win but has been denied twice in the Tramway Stakes, once on the track and once in the stewards' room. His second to Comin' Through in Saturday's 1300m-Group Two race was his 11th from 32 starts, a record that has earned him a[...]

Redzel has made an emphatic statement by kicking off his defence of the $13 million Everest with victory in the Group Two Concorde Stakes at Randwick. His co-trainer Peter Snowden arrived with his lucky charm, grand-daughter Demi, but Redzel, the $2.30 favourite, needed little encouragement to first pick off Invincible Star ($2.35) and hold off[...]

The Lord Mayor has cemented his place as a spring carnival player for trainer Chris Waller with a benchmark victory at Randwick. Waller will now set him on a path to the Group One Metropolitan Handicap on September 29 after he beat stablemates Quick Defence and Brimham Rocks in a tight finish to Saturday's 2000m-race.[...]

Darren Weir has trained more than 3500 winners but landed a career-first when Mrs Gardenia and Bellaria dead-heated at Caulfield. The Weir-trained pair shared the spoils in Saturday's Hockingstuart Handicap, the first time the trainer has had two horses from his stable dead-heat a race. “It's a good way to keep the owners happy I[...]

Last year's Warrnambool Cup winner High Church has bounced back to winning form with a hard-fought victory in a staying race at Caulfield. The Darren Weir-trained gelding won the 2017 Warrnambool Cup and was later third in the Group Two PJ O'Shea Stakes in Brisbane last June before spending 11 months on the sidelines after[...]