Golden Slipper

McDonald celebrates milestone on Anamoe

Posted on April 10, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

James Cummings was left wondering what might have been after Anamoe’s slashing second from a wide draw in the Golden Slipper, but the colt has swept that disappointment aside with a breathtaking performance at Randwick. The Godolphin head trainer admitted he was crushed when the youngster came up with the outside gate in the Slipper,[...]

Posted on April 9, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

After a brace of placings in Australia’s most prestigious two-year-old races, Godolphin believes the stage is set for Anamoe to finally snare a juvenile feature. The youngster flashed home for third in the Blue Diamond Stakes three starts ago and again closed strongly when runner-up to Stay Inside in the Golden Slipper. Sandwiched in between[...]

Posted on April 8, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Having plundered the Golden Slipper with Stay Inside, Michael and Richard Freedman will turn their attention to capturing the second leg of the juvenile triple crown, this time with Tiger Of Malay. Like Stay Inside, Tiger Of Malay is by fertility-challenged sire Extreme Choice and showed early talent to win the Kirkham Plate on debut[...]

Posted on March 28, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Stay Inside has added the latest chapter to the Freedman family’s Golden Slipper dynasty with a breathtaking win in the world’s richest two-year-old race. Under the leadership of Lee Freedman, the brothers claimed four Slippers in a row starting with Bint Marscay in 1993 and on Saturday at Rosehill, it was Michael and Richard’s turn[...]

Posted on March 26, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

John O’Shea is hoping it will be a case of like father, like son when Lion’s Roar chases a Group One, 2000 metre target on Golden Slipper day. The three-year-old will bid to add Saturday’s Rosehill Guineas to his victory in the Randwick classic, six years after his sire Contributer – who O’Shea also trained[...]

Posted on March 26, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Tulloch Lodge will rely on improving filly Swift Witness in its quest for successive Golden Slipper wins and co-trainer Adrian Bott is hoping her barrier draw is an omen. Farnan proved too brilliant for his rivals last year from barrier 12 to give Gai Waterhouse a record seventh Golden Slipper and Bott his first. Swift[...]

Posted on March 26, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

The rain delay has been a blessing and a burden for trainers Peter and Paul Snowden as they prepare to saddle up Golden Slipper runners Kalashnikov and Captivant. Peter Snowden believes the seven-day postponement will be beneficial for Kalashnikov, who has improved his racing manners to win his past two starts, the latest when successful[...]

Posted on March 26, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Tommy Berry has tuned up for the postponed Golden Slipper meeting with a juvenile double on the Kensington track, although it wasn’t enough to peg back the premiership lead of arch rival James Mcdonald. Berry made a clean sweep of the two-year-old races, taking out the opening event aboard Chris Waller-trained debutant Kalino and snaring[...]

Posted on March 26, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Eight months after taking out her trainers’ licence, Annabel Neasham is pinching herself at the prospect of having two Group One runners on one of the biggest race days of the Sydney autumn carnival. Neasham will saddle up Queen Of Wizardry in the $3.5 million Golden Slipper (1200m) and Mo’Unga in the Rosehill Guineas (2000m).[...]

Posted on March 25, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

James Cummings admits the belated running of the Golden Slipper is not ideal for Todman Stakes winner Anamoe, who already faces a tough task from the outside draw. The Godolphin youngster is a chance for the $3.5 million showcase, which has been pushed back to this Saturday after last weekend’s wash-out. Cummings said he would[...]

Posted on March 24, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Sam Freedman is unsure what the wait of an extra week will do to the chances of Artorius in the Group 1 Golden Slipper at Rosehill. But one thing Freedman does know, is that he and his father Anthony, who co-trains Artorius, are not alone. Heavy rain in Sydney last week caused the postponement of[...]

Posted on March 24, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Leading trainer Chris Waller’s hopes of claiming a first Golden Slipper success have been reduced with O’President being withdrawn with an elevated temperature. O’President, a winner of two starts this preparation leading into Saturday’s delayed Golden Slipper (1200m) at Rosehill, was an chance with TAB at the time of his scratching. The two-year-old was found[...]

Posted on March 23, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

A change in the Sydney Autumn Carnival dates has brought about a change in races for Group 1 Melbourne-trained filly Odeum. With Saturday’s Golden Slipper meeting a washout, which in turn has pushed the whole autumn carnival back a week, Odeum is now likely to run in the Group 3 Birthday Card Stakes (1200m) at[...]

Posted on March 22, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Michael Kent Jr says it will be interesting to see how the week unfolds in Sydney after the big wet pushed back the Golden Slipper meeting by a week. The entire Golden Slipper meeting will be run this coming Saturday after the Rosehill track was deluged with rain last Friday night. Kent Jr prepares Slipper[...]

Posted on March 20, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

While most Sydney trainers were restricted to putting their Golden Slipper contenders through some last-minute pace work on Saturday, bush trainer Scott Spackman found himself in the enviable position of giving Rocket Tiger a course proper gallop. Spackman is based in Wagga Wagga, which missed the worst of the weather event that forced racing officials[...]

Posted on March 20, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Trainer John Sargent is hoping the decision to postpone the Golden Slipper meeting by seven days is an omen for third favourite Four Moves Ahead. Racing officials made the call to shift the entire Sydney autumn carnival back a week when heavy rain washed out Saturday’s nine-race Slipper program. The last time a feature autumn[...]

Posted on March 20, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Racing NSW and the Australian Turf Club have determined that all race meetings forming part of the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival will be run seven days later than originally scheduled. This was necessary after the postponement of today’s Longines Golden Slipper meeting at Rosehill Gardens due to continued heavy rain and following a track inspection[...]

McDonald celebrates milestone on Anamoe

Cummings bullish about Anamoe in Sires’

Freedmans hunting another Group 1 with Tiger

Stay Inside romps home in Golden Slipper

O’Shea hoping lightning can strike twice

Swift Witness flying under the Slipper radar

Varying fortunes for Snowdens’ Golden pair

Berry warms up for Slipper with juvenile double

Group One breakthrough beckons for Neasham

Slipper delay another hurdle for Anamoe

Extra week no problem for Artorius

Raised temperature forces O’President out of Slipper

Meeting Washout Brings About Plan Change For Odeum

Balancing act for two-year-olds in delayed Slipper

Wagga trainer gets a leg-up on Slipper rivals

Sargent Banks On Slipper Delay Proving A Lucky Move

Golden Slipper and Sydney Autumn Carnival back a week

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