Stradbroke Handicap

Plenty of spring options for Tofane

Posted on July 22, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Triple Group One winner Tofane has plenty of options open to her this spring. Trainer Michael Moroney was initially planning to extend the daughter of Ocean Park over 1600m for the first time, but a A$2 million carrot is now being dangled in front of the Flemington trainer in the form of the newly announced[...]

Posted on June 28, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Despite COVID-19 restrictions creating ongoing logistical headaches and isolating him from his family and friends in New Zealand, trans-Tasman trainer Michael Moroney has taken special satisfaction from the last couple of weeks. Moroney watched on from his Melbourne base as his high-class Kiwi-bred mare Tofane became just the third mare in history to complete Brisbane’s[...]

Posted on June 25, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

A third Group One scalp is in the offing for New Zealand-bred mare Tofane this weekend when she lines-up in the Group 1 Tattersall’s Tiara (1400m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday. The daughter of Ocean Park won the Group 1 All-Aged Stakes (1400m) last year, and on the cusp of being sold as a broodmare[...]

Posted on June 16, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Australian based NZ trainer Mike Moroney has given the green light for Tofane to have a crack at securing her third elite-level victory at Eagle Farm next week. The daughter of Ocean Park doubled her Group One tally when taking out the Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) at the Brisbane track last week, continuing her purple patch[...]

Posted on June 11, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

There was a time when New Zealand trainer John Wheeler was an unmissable fixture of the Queensland winter carnival, but these days he’s content to watch from afar. From the late 1980s the New Plymouth-based trainer became a regular in the Kiwi raiding party to the Sunshine State. He quickly achieved legendary status with a[...]

Posted on June 11, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Australian cult figure The Harrovian is "spot on" ahead of Saturday’s Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm according to his co-trainer Trent Edmonds.

Posted on June 9, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

When So Si Bon steps out in the Stradbroke Handicap on Saturday afternoon at Eagle Farm, it will be the last time Australian trainer Tom Dabernig has a Group 1 runner for the Lindsay Park stable.

Posted on June 9, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Stradbroke Handicap favourite Vega One is now at the top of his game heading into the Group 1 feature at Eagle Farm this Saturday according to his trainer, Tony Gollan.

Posted on June 4, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Opie Bosson is in danger of catching a chill from the amount of times he is dipping in-between New Zealand’s cold winter and Queensland’s summer-like conditions. The New Zealand hoop will once again make the trek across the Tasman to ride in Queensland’s Winter Carnival this weekend, his third trip in the last month. In[...]

Posted on June 3, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Australian trainer Michael Moroney will have to watch his Queensland contenders over the next week on a screen at home after being caught up in Melbourne’s COVID-19 enforced lockdown. The Flemington trainer will contest the Group 1 Queensland Oaks (2200m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday with New Zealand-bred filly Yatton, and he said she is[...]

Posted on June 3, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

New Zealand Group One performer Coventina Bay made the best possible start to her Queensland campaign on Tuesday. Under regular rider Samantha Collett, she won her 1200m trial at the Sunshine Coast by 3.5 lengths. Trainer Robbie Patterson was pleased with her hit-out ahead of her Group targets in the coming month. “She trialled nicely,”[...]

Posted on June 1, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Craig Williams has opted to remain in Queensland amid the ongoing COVID-19 crisis happening in Victoria, Australia.

Posted on May 26, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Australian three-year-old star Ayrton had his first look around Eagle Farm on Tuesday morning before the Fred Best Classic, which he needs to win to ensure a start in next month’s Stradbroke Handicap.

Posted on May 18, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

New Zealand trainer Tony Pike got his attack on the Queensland Winter carnival off to a good start with exciting three-year-old Not An Option resuming in fine style from a lengthy layoff with a fast finishing fourth over 1350m at Doomben on Saturday. A Group Two winner as a juvenile, the Not A Single Doubt[...]

Posted on May 15, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

The Collett-McKay household will be a bit empty over the coming month. While Shaun McKay will be plying his trade in Melbourne over winter, his partner and fellow jockey Samantha Collett will head to the warmer climate of Queensland to partner a couple of familiar mounts. “I am fortunate enough that (New Zealand trainer) Robbie[...]

Posted on May 3, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Tony Pike knows how to make an impact at the Queensland Winter Carnival, having saddled the likes of The Bostonian, Sacred Elixir and Provocative to Group One success in the Sunshine State. The New Zealand horseman is again plotting a raid in search of Aussie dollars, with four young members of his team venturing across[...]

Posted on May 3, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Promising New Zealand three-year-old Puntura confirmed his place in a squad bound for Brisbane later this month when he stormed home from near last at Te Rapa on Saturday to record his fourth successive victory. The Robbie Patterson-trained son of Group One winning two-year-old Vespa will join stablemates Coventina Bay and an unnamed Shamexpress two-year-old[...]

Plenty of spring options for Tofane

Moroney savours Tofane’s special double

Tiara tilt for Tofane

Tattersall’s Tiara confirmed for Tofane

Wheeler content to watch Stradbroke day from afar

The Harrovian ready and raring for Stradbroke Handicap

Can So Si Bon give Dabernig one last Group 1 with Lindsay Park?

Vega One in ‘great shape’ for Stradbroke, says Gollan

New Zealand jockey Opie Bosson racking up frequent flyer points

Michael Moroney watching Queensland raiders from home

New Zealand mare Coventina Bay basking in the Sunshine State

Craig Williams set for extended stay in Queensland

Ayrton prepping well for Fred Best Classic at Eagle Farm

Pike buoyed by positive start to Queensland campaign

Queensland sojourn for New Zealand jockey Samantha Collett

Pike quartet Australia bound

Puntura books trip to Australia with Te Rapa victory

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