Spring plans for stakes winner Fituese will become clearer after the promising filly faces what is expected to be her final test for this season at Rosehill. Fituese has won five of her seven starts including two from two this preparation. A last-start 1-3/4-length winner of the Listed Denise's Joy Stakes (1100m) at Rosehill, Fituese[...]
Promising filly Fituese has continued a rise through the grades to claim her first stakes win in dominant fashion at Rosehill. The three-year-old could now be in line for a Queensland campaign after taking out Saturday's Listed Denise's Joy Stakes (1100m) against her own age and sex. Well-supported to start the $1.75 favourite, the John[...]
John Thompson was still crafting his skills as a horseman when he first crossed paths with Joe O'Neill. O'Neill was in the early stages of establishing syndication company Prime Thoroughbreds while Thompson had just taken on the role of foreman for trainer Bill Mitchell. More than two decades later Thompson, now a leading trainer in[...]