Mike Moroney knows he has a horse with great potential in Shelby Cobra but he isn't certain if he is a sprinter or a miler at this stage of his career.
Former German stayer Sound has been making a habit of finishing second and trainer Mike Moroney is hoping he can post an overdue win in the Zipping Classic.
Mike Moroney has scratched Aktau from the Caulfield Cup due to injury but he's upbeat his remaining runner Chapada can give him his first win in the race.
Aktau's most recent run was the first time he had been unplaced in Australia but trainer Mike Moroney said he was ready to bounce back in the Turnbull Stakes.
Next Monday will mark the farewell to one of the unsung promoters of the New Zealand racing and breeding industry with the funeral of Ronald Walter Ladd, QSM. Ladd, who died peacefully at the Cascades Rest Home in Hamilton last Monday at the age of 93, made a huge impression through his services to racing[...]
New Zealand mare Santa Catarina has joined the Mike Moroney stable and is set to race in Melbourne for the first time at The Valley. But how long the mare continues to race for remains to be seen, with the prospect of her potentially heading to the breeding barn this spring. Formerly prepared by Stephen[...]
Daniel Stackhouse has continued his successful season with an all-the-way win on She’s A Thief at the final Melbourne metropolitan meeting of the 2019-20 campaign at Caulfield. While Craig Williams has clinched his ninth Melbourne metropolitan jockeys’ premiership, Stackhouse and Jye McNeil are in a battle for the Victorian statewide jockeys’ premiership. McNeil led Stackhouse[...]
Trainer Mike Moroney’s Melbourne team for the spring has been bolstered by the arrival of Group Two winner Harlech from New Zealand. Harlech arrived on Wednesday morning, along with stakes-placed rising three-year-old Snapper, to continue preparations at Moroney’s Flemington stables towards their Australian spring campaigns. Harlech registered two wins and five placings from nine starts[...]
Narrowly beaten in the All Victorian Sprint Series Final a year ago, the Mike Moroney-trained Milwaukee will be striving to go one better in his second attempt at winning the straight-track Listed race at Flemington. Milwaukee was second to Malibu Style in last year’s edition and that pair are among a field of 10 for[...]
Mirimar has responded in the best possible way to a course of dressage and an intelligent ride to give trainer Mike Moroney a winning double at Caulfield. Mirimar took out Saturday’s Neds Money Back Handicap under apprentice Lewis German after the victory of stablemate She’s A Thief. While the Moroney stable was celebrating their success,[...]
Trainer Mike Moroney believes Hang Man is knocking on the door of a win this preparation and hopes he can achieve it at The Valley on Saturday. Hang Man is yet to win from four starts this preparation, registering two placings, but Moroney believes there was plenty of merit in the import’s most recent defeat[...]