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Behemoth Carries Big Weight To Group 1 Victory

Posted on September 19, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

South Australian Behemoth made it successive Group One wins when he took out the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes, prompting connections to hope for an Everest call-up.

Posted on August 29, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Giant galloper Behemoth gave South Australian trainer David Jolly his second Group One winner and his budget ownership group Grand Syndications their first when he took out the Memsie Stakes at Caulfield. Champion jockey Craig Williams positioned the gelding, who weighs 600 kilograms and stands 17 hands, behind the leaders Begood Toya Mother and Streets[...]

Posted on August 28, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

West Australians Grant and Alana Williams will be out to raid the Caulfield coffers with a quintet of runners, including two Group One Memsie Stakes contenders and a pair of Golden Eagle hopefuls. The husband and wife training partners prepare the quality string raced by prominent Perth owner-breeder Bob Peters, who sent his best horses[...]

Posted on August 28, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Adam Trinder knew he would be kept well informed on the progress of Mystic Journey by his stable foreman Steff Waugh but he didn't expect their host Peter Moody to also be giving him regular updates. Trinder stayed at his Tasmanian stables to supervise the rest of his team and sent Waugh across with Mystic[...]

Posted on August 27, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

James Cummings has assessed the Memsie Stakes as Savatiano's best opportunity to break her maiden status at Group One level. Cummings said he had often thought Savatiano had the potential to win in elite grade and referred to her as “a bottled-up talent”. “Now she has the chance to live up to that assessment. Not[...]

Posted on August 26, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

David Jolly is hoping a win in the Group One Memsie Stakes will prove more than adequate compensation for missing the Queensland winter with his giant galloper Behemoth. Behemoth had two starts during the Adelaide racing carnival for a win in the McKay Stakes and a fourth in The Goodwood in May. Jolly had planned[...]

Posted on August 24, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Peter Moody will make his return to Group One racing in the Memsie Stakes at Caulfield where he is planning to have two runners in Gatting and Glenfiddich. Moody was successful the last time he had a runner in a Group One, which was in March 2016 when he won the William Reid Stakes at[...]

Posted on August 7, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Co-trainer Tom Dabernig acknowledges that entering cult galloper So Si Bon for the Cox Plate is ambitious but if ever he is going to run in the race, this could be the year to do it. “The Cox Plate may not be as strong due to the travel restrictions,” Dabernig said. “If he's going well[...]

Posted on July 20, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Streets Of Avalon is scheduled to begin his latest campaign in the Bletchingly Stakes at Caulfield on a path to Group One targets at the same track later in his preparation. The five-year-old became a Group One winner with an upset victory in the Futurity Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield last preparation and trainer Shane Nichols[...]

Posted on July 7, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Mystic Journey's racing return has been delayed with the PB Lawrence Stakes on August 15 now pencilled in for the Group One-winning mare. Trainer Adam Trinder had planned to run the rising five-year-old in the Group Three Bletchingly Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield on July 25, but opted against it. “We've pushed that back, and probably[...]

Posted on June 30, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Melbourne's flagship spring races including the Melbourne Cup will retain their rich purses while minimum prize money in Victoria will return to pre-COVID levels from the start of the new season. But 12 stakes races during this year's Victorian spring carnival, including three Group Ones, will have a prize money reduction. Prize money for all[...]

Posted on June 11, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Travel restrictions could force trainer Adam Trinder to watch on from Tasmania when his Group One winner Mystic Journey next campaigns on the mainland. Mystic Journey is scheduled to commence her spring campaign in the Bletchingly Stakes at Caulfield late next month. Under orders from owner Wayne Roser, Mystic Journey's autumn campaign was aborted after[...]

Posted on August 31, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Trainer Lindsey Smith will savour the win of Scales Of Justice in the Memsie Stakes at Caulfield before confirming spring plans. Scales Of Justice landed the first Melbourne Group One race of the spring on Saturday under a perfectly judged ride from Dean Yendall. Backed from $4 into $3.70 second favourite, Scales Of Justice held[...]

Posted on August 31, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Scales Of Justice has won his second Group One race in beating a star-studded field in the $1 million Memsie Stakes at Caulfield. Winner of the Railway Stakes in Perth in 2016, Scales Of Justice is on a comeback trail after a string of ailments. Jockey Dean Yendall had Scales Of Justice ($3.70) in fifth[...]

Posted on August 30, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Alizee faces a potential campaign-defining race in Melbourne's first Group One event of the season, with the star Godolphin-owned mare to put her Everest credentials on show in the Memsie Stakes at Caulfield. She is favourite to claim her fourth Group One win on Saturday and a comprehensive victory in the 1400m weight-for-age race could[...]

Posted on August 29, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

THE GROUP ONE MEMSIE STAKES Caulfield, 1400m, weight-for-age HISTORY: First run in 1899 at one mile (1600m) and won by Veneda. 1900-1970 run over nine furlongs (1800m). 1971-79 run over 1600m shortening to 1400m since and given Group One status in 2013. In 2017 given a significant prize money increase to $1 million NOTABLE WINNERS[...]

Posted on August 29, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Tony McEvoy is methodical in the preparation of his horses heading towards feature races. So it was with surprise that Despatch, who runs in Saturday's Group One Memsie Stakes at Caulfield, got under the trainer's guard at his first-up run in Adelaide. Despatch finished fourth in the Group Three Spring Stakes at Morphettville on August[...]

Behemoth Carries Big Weight To Group 1 Victory

Giant Galloper Behemoth Wins Memsie Stakes

Perth Stars Step Out In Force At Caulfield

Mystic Journey Ready For Memsie Challenge

Savatiano Gets Group One Chance In Memsie

Behemoth Chasing Biggest Win In Memsie

Moody Eyeing Off Memsie With New Recruits

So Si Bon Looms As A Cox Plate Wildcard

Streets Of Avalon Entered For Bletchingly

Mystic Journey Set To Bypass Bletchingly

Minimum Prize Money Restored For Vic Races

Mystic Journey Readies For Spring Return

Scales Of Justice Claims Group 1 Memsie Stakes

Scales Of Justice Wins The Memsie Stakes

Alizee Can Press Everest Claims In Memsie

Facts And Figures On The Group 1 Memsie Stakes

Mcevoy With Two Chances In Memsie Stakes

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