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Williams Puts Soul Into Australian Guineas

Posted on February 27, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Premier Melbourne jockey Craig Williams is after bragging rights in the Australian Guineas, a race he says has a state of origin feel about it. Runners representing Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and New Zealand line up in the Group One race over 1600m at Flemington on Saturday. Williams rides the Ken Keys-trained Soul[...]

Posted on February 10, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Trainer Ken Keys is under no illusion about the task confronting Soul Patch when he resumes in the C S Hayes Stakes at Flemington. There have been 14 entries taken for Saturday's Group Three 1400m-race including the Caulfield Guineas quinella of Super Seth and Alligator Blood. The talented Dalasan and star New Zealander Catalyst are[...]

Posted on October 30, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Trainer Ken Keys may not have had too many opportunities at the highest level but saddles two chances in a bid for an elusive Group One victory. Keys has been training for more than 30 years and from 40 starters in Group One races the closest he has come was in the 2014 Caulfield Guineas[...]

Posted on October 26, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Trainer Ken Keys is keeping his feet firmly planted after Soul Patch raced his way into Victoria Derby contention with an impressive win at The Valley. Soul Patch won Saturday's Drummond Golf Vase (2040m) and had his price slashed from $11 into $5 for next Saturday's Derby over 2500m at Flemington. The addition of blinkers[...]

Posted on October 17, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Trainer Ken Keys will ask jockey Dwayne Dunn to adopt different tactics aboard Presently when they reunite at Caulfield. Presently runs in Saturday's Group Three Ethereal Stakes (2000m), a lead-up race to the VRC Oaks (2500m) at Flemington on November 7. Keys has had the Oaks in mind for Presently from the time she commenced[...]

Posted on October 16, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Trainer Ken Keys has adopted a different spring campaign with Spanish Reef who returned to winning form in the Ladies' Day Vase at Caulfield. In the past two years Keys has tried winning his hometown Cranbourne Cup with the mare, but this campaign he has altered his sights to the Group One Empire Rose Stakes[...]

Posted on August 30, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

One of the trainers who played a major part in apprentice jockey Mikaela Claridge's emerging career has remembered the 22-year-old as a “great kid” who always had a smile on her face. Claridge died after a trackwork accident at Cranbourne on Friday morning, with the news leaving the Australian racing industry shocked and saddened, including[...]

Posted on July 18, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

A long neck has been the difference between maiden filly Presently spending time in the paddock and racing at Flemington. Presently runs for the fourth time in Saturday's Byerley Handicap, a race that affords the winner ballot exemption in the Victoria Derby and/or VRC Oaks. Saturday's 1800m race was not on trainer Ken Keys' radar,[...]

Williams Puts Soul Into Australian Guineas

Derby Placegetter To Resume In C S Hayes

Keys With Two Group 1 Contenders On Derby Day

Soul Patch On Derby Path After Valley Win

Presently Continues Oaks Path At Caulfield

Spanish Reef Returns To Form At Caulfield

Gaskin Remembers Apprentice Claridge

Presently Goes One More Time At Flemington

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