Stradbroke Handicap

Think About It destroys top tier Stradbroke Handicap field

Posted on June 10, 2023
in Australian Horse Racing News

Joseph Pride and Sam Clipperton have combined with Think About It to take out the feature Group 1 race of the day, the Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm on Saturday afternoon. After stepping up to Group 1 grade for the first time last start in his Kingsford Smith Cup victory, this four-year-old gelding has now[...]

Posted on June 7, 2023
in Australian Horse Racing News

Matamata trainers Lance O'Sullivan and Andrew Scott are hoping to pick up a consolation prize this weekend with their two-pronged attack on the Listed Wayne Wilson (1600m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday. The stable presented quality gallopers Dragon Leap and Dark Destroyer in the Group 3 BRC Sprint (1350m) at Doomben last month, a ballot[...]

Posted on June 7, 2023
in Australian Horse Racing News

Think About It is on the verge of becoming a two-time Group 1 winner and can show his class while ticking off the achievement in the Stradbroke Handicap this Saturday at Eagle Farm.

Posted on June 3, 2023
in Australian Horse Racing News

In a throwback to his father Prince of Boom turned the tables on the field to take out the Group Two Moreton Cup at Eagle Farm on Saturday. The Rob Heathcote-trained gelding won the $300,000 feature by a dominant three-length display under hoop Tim Clark paying $3.60 with online bookmakers. His sire Spirit of Boom[...]

Posted on May 23, 2023
in Australian Horse Racing News

Matamata trainers Lance O'Sullivan and Andrew Scott were delighted with the efforts of their quality galloper Dragon Leap to finish runner-up in Saturday's Group 3 BRC Sprint (1350m) where the gelding was narrowly beaten by Surf Dancer. It was a good performance from the multiple Group Two winner, who started from barrier 15. Connections are[...]

Posted on May 20, 2023
in Australian Horse Racing News

The ‘win and you're in' race for the Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap has been taken out by a horse without a nomination, as Surf Dancer ($34) has produced a blowout for punters in the Group 3 BRC Sprint. It's taken a faultless 10 out of 10 steer from jockey Joshua Parr on the Gai Waterhouse[...]

Posted on April 15, 2023
in Australian Horse Racing News

It's been an ultra-impressive return by Vilana in the Group 3 Hall Mark Stakes, scoring a very strong win after a 126-day spell for Godolphin. It was a no panic steer from jockey Nash Rawiller aboard this improving four-year-old colt, after being cast wide throughout the 1200m. Rawiller was willing to take his medicine and[...]

Posted on April 8, 2023
in Australian Horse Racing News

The Grahame Begg-trained Cardinal Gem has run away with the Group 3 Victoria Handicap at Sandown in a truly dominant display. The four-year-old gelding was sent out as a $3 favourite with online bookmakers and on the back of a genuine tempo, relished the speed in the race and conditions to salute by 2.25 lengths.[...]

Posted on February 9, 2023
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Plans have been made for Asterix and Dragon Leap to cross the Tasman this year, but first the stablemates face ultra-competitive line-ups in their respective Group One engagements at Te Rapa. Trainers Lance O'Sullivan and Andrew Scott have been more than satisfied with the duo's most recent performances and both have trained on well ahead[...]

Posted on June 14, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Comeback horse Alligator Blood's Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) triumph has Cambridge trainer Tony Pike hoping that one of that horse's most notable rivals can have a similarly successful return to racing next spring. Alligator Blood's Stradbroke victory was his first trip to the winners circle since he took out the Group 1 Australian Guineas[...]

Posted on June 11, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

Nobody's perfect, including star sprinter Alligator Blood. But he's not far from perfect now. That was the message from the triumphant Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable after the five-year-old's classy one-length victory over quality galloper Private Eye in the $1.5 million Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) at Eagle Farm. Make no mistake, Alligator Blood – named Queensland's 2020[...]

Posted on June 6, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

While it might not seem it for Australian jockey-turned-trainer Chris Munce, it has been 25 years since he partnered champion mare Dane Ripper to victory in the Stradbroke Handicap.

Posted on May 28, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

It's better late than never. That was James Cummings' assessment after his three-year-old colt Vilana saluted by a length in the $250,000 Fred Best Classic (1400m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Cummings will now have to pay a late nomination for the $1.5 million Stradbroke Handicap on June 11 because this feature sprint over the same distance[...]

Posted on May 23, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

The weights have been released for the 2022 Stradbroke Handicap (1400m), with Kementari set to wear the number one saddlecloth on June 11.

Posted on May 9, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

Even though Streets Of Avalon was scratched from The Archer, trainer Shane Nichols said he had a ball in Rockhampton. His Group 1-winning gelding is still suffering the effects of a virus, so plans for the Brisbane Winter Carnival remain up in the air.

Posted on April 27, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Class New Zealand sprinter Babylon Berlin is joining Tony Pike's team for the next couple of months in order to take on some of Australia's best sprinters in Queensland. The All Too Hard mare returned to the track at Cambridge on Tuesday, winning a 950m open catchweight trial on the synthetic track in what was[...]

Posted on April 15, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News, New Zealand Horse Racing News

Tofane will be vying to finish her racing career on a high on Saturday when she lines-up in the Group 1 All Aged Stakes (1400m) at Randwick. The daughter of Ocean Park won the race two years ago in the hands of Kiwi jockey Opie Bosson, her first at elite level. She was set to[...]

Think About It destroys top tier Stradbroke Handicap field

Dragon Leap thriving ahead of Wayne Wilson

Think About It heads top field for Stradbroke Handicap

Prince Of Boom spaces rivals in Group 2 Moreton Cup

Group One target awaits Dragon Leap

Surf Dancer causes major upset in Group 3 BRC Sprint

Vilana impresses on resumption in Hall Mark Stakes

Cardinal Gem relishes the wet in Group 3 Victoria Handicap

Australia calling Te Rapa Group One contenders

Pike hoping Catalyst can find old zest

Alligator Blood salutes in the Stradbroke Handicap

Munce looks back on Dane Ripper’s 1997 Stradbroke Handicap win

Cummings delighted following Vilana’s victory in Fred Best Classic

Kementari top weight for 2022 Stradbroke Handicap

Streets of Avalon ‘definitely won’t run’ in Kingsford Smith Cup

Queensland campaign for Babylon Berlin

Swansong for Tofane

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