Manikato Stakes

Maher Announces Retirement Of Loving Gaby

Posted on August 25, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace have been dealt a blow on the eve of the spring carnival with the retirement of top mare Loving Gaby due to a leg issue. A dual Group One winner, Loving Gaby was being touted as a possible contender for a slot in the $15 million The Everest. Maher[...]

Posted on August 19, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Jason Warren wasn’t surprised by the style of Brooklyn Hustle’s return to racing with her win at The Valley almost three weeks ago, but he was taken with how she recovered. Brooklyn Hustle will return to the track to run in the Listed Carlyon Stakes (1000m) on Saturday. Warren was worried her first up win[...]

Posted on August 7, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Trainer Julius Sandhu will use the Group Three Aurie’s Star Stakes at Flemington as a litmus test for his enigmatic stable recruit Trope. Sandhu, who has been training for only two years, is hoping the five-year-old can confirm his belief that he is a genuine Group One sprinter. Sandhu trains for Lofty Thoroughbreds, which purchased[...]

Posted on June 28, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Using Loving Gaby as a yardstick, trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace hope to follow a similar spring campaign with Magic Millions winner Away Game. Maher and Eustace prepared Loving Gaby to win the Manikato Stakes at The Valley as a spring three-year-old and they will try to get Away Game to the Group One[...]

Posted on October 25, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

The decision to run Loving Gaby in the Manikato Stakes has been rewarded with the exciting filly creating history in the Group One sprint at The Valley. Trained by Ciaron Maher and David Eustace, Loving Gaby became the first three-year-old filly to win the weight-for-age Manikato since its elevation to Group One status in 1989.[...]

Posted on October 24, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Everything has fallen into place for Cambridge trainer Tony Pike in the build-up to Friday’s Group 1 Manikato Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley, where his star sprinter The Bostonian will chase a third elite Australian victory in the last six months. The son of Jimmy Choux won the Group 1 Doomben 10,000 (1200m) and Group[...]

Posted on October 24, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

THE MANIKATO STAKES – WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW * Run at Moonee Valley as race seven on Friday, October 25, 9.30pm (AEDT) * Group One, $1 million, 1200m, weight-for-age HISTORY First held in September of 1968 as the Freeway Stakes, it was run over six furlongs and won by Winfreux Renamed in 1984 after[...]

Posted on October 24, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Champion trainer David Hayes believes the timing of this year’s Everest makes the $1 million Manikato Stakes at The Valley an attractive target for Faatinah who gets his latest chance at an elusive Group One win. Friday night’s Manikato is six days after the majority of the country’s top sprinters faced off in the $14[...]

Posted on October 23, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Jockey Damian Lane is convinced dual Group One winner The Bostonian will be better suited at The Valley in the Manikato Stakes than the last time the New Zealand sprinter raced there. The Tony Pike-trained The Bostonian made his first appearance at The Valley in the Group One Moir Stakes (1000m) last month and had[...]

Posted on October 22, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

After the Godolphin team opted not to run star colt Bivouac in The Everest, the three-year-old is poised to start a short-priced favourite in the Group One Manikato Stakes at The Valley. Godolphin decided to run five-year-old mare Alizee in its slot in Saturday’s $14 million Everest in Sydney, which was won by three-year-old colt[...]

Posted on October 22, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Favourite Bivouac has drawn the inside gate for the Group One Manikato Stakes at The Valley. The Godolphin-owned colt has fellow three-year-old Loving Gaby in the gate next to him in the field of 11. Bivouac has two recent wins against Yes Yes Yes who won the $14 million Everest on Saturday. The third of[...]

Posted on October 20, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Cambridge trainer Tony Pike has confirmed high-class three-year-old filly Kali will head straight to the Group 1 gavelhouse.com New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton next month after her impressive winning performance at Ashburton on Saturday. Pike spent time with the Darci Brahma filly on Sunday morning before flying home from Christchurch and was delighted[...]

Posted on September 26, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

The only thing left for the CV of multiple stakes winner Winter Bride is to land a Group One victory. Co-trainer Toby Edmonds said Friday night’s Moir Stakes (1000m) was always intended to be Winter Bride’s campaign opener although the Manikato Stakes (1200m) at The Valley on October 25 may prove to be a better[...]

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