Metropolitan Handicap

Newnham, Dolan Chase Metrop Dream

Posted on October 5, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

It has been almost 20 years since a mare won the Group One Metropolitan Handicap and trainer Mark Newnham believes Scarlet Dream is capable of breaking the drought. The Gai Waterhouse-trained Coco Cobanna was the last mare to win the Group One staying feature in 2001 and like Scarlet Dream, contested the race as a[...]

Posted on October 3, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Just over a year after Attention Run suffered such severe travel sickness it was feared she would never race in Australia, the German import will line up as a live chance in one of Sydney's most prestigious Group One staying races. The Kris Lees-trained five-year-old is $19 for Saturday's Metropolitan Handicap (2400m) at Randwick and[...]

Posted on October 1, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Gai Waterhouse has prepared more winners of the Metropolitan Handicap than anyone else with her training partner Adrian Bott looking for his first. Waterhouse has eight wins in the Group One staying feature, her first in 1992 with Te Akau Nick and her most recent Glencadam Gold in 2012. She and Bott will send out[...]

Posted on September 23, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Brimham Rocks has escaped a Caulfield Cup penalty for his Naturalism Stakes win but the victory has earned him an extra two kilograms for the Metropolitan Handicap. Hush Writer, winner of Friday's Newcastle Cup, received the same penalty and the two are both on 52.5kg for the Group One Metropolitan (2400m) at Randwick on October[...]

Posted on September 20, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Australian Oaks runner-up Scarlet Dream will take the next step towards her Metropolitan Handicap goal when she lines up against a tough field of seasoned stayers in the Kingston Town Stakes at Randwick. Keen to get some more miles in her legs, trainer Mark Newnham confirmed Scarlet Dream would take her place on Saturday despite[...]

Posted on September 10, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

New Zealander Te Akau Shark remains favourite for the Epsom Handicap with 83 nominations taken for the famous Randwick mile. Te Akau Shark is at $5 after finishing second to Doncaster Mile runner-up Dreamforce in Saturday's Tramway Stakes. Dreamforce is at $6 with the TAB for the Epsom (1600m) with Samadoubt at $8 following his[...]

Posted on August 16, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Former Tasmanian Eastender is poised to begin a campaign aimed at the Group One Metropolitan Handicap and nobody is more surprised than Denise Martin. The boss of syndication company Star Thoroughbreds, Martin has enjoyed decades of success at the highest level but admits she has a soft spot for the horse who has defied his[...]

Posted on August 15, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News, New Zealand Horse Racing News

Lance O'Sullivan, who trains in partnership with Andrew Scott, has little expectation of his talented stayer Charles Road as he lights a fuse on another Group 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) campaign in Sydney on Saturday. The Matamata trainer is delighted with Charles Road's progress ahead of the Spring Preview Handicap (1400m) at Randwick's Kensington track[...]

Newnham, Dolan Chase Metrop Dream

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Eastender Kicks Off Mainland Campaign

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