Stradbroke Handicap

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

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[...]

Posted on April 6, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

With the Brisbane Winter Carnival officially set to start on April 30, online bookmakers have released pre-nomination markets for four of the seven Group 1 races on the schedule.

Posted on January 25, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Speedy New Zealand mare Babylon Berlin may be given a chance to extend her distance range in next month’s Group 1 BCD Sprint (1400m) at Te Rapa. Babylon Berlin showed her customary speed and determination when winning the Group 3 Concorde Handicap (1200m) at Ellerslie on Saturday, leading all the way and holding out Festivity[...]

Posted on January 17, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Despite a dogged effort when second behind the unbeaten Shamus in Saturday’s Group 2 Wellington Guineas (1600m) at Trentham, the immediate future for promising three-year-old Pareanui Bay is in the spelling paddock for the next month. Unbeaten in his first three starts, including the Group 2 James & Annie Sarten Memorial Stakes (1400m) at Te[...]

Posted on August 10, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Triple Group One winner Tofane was back in action at the Flemington jump-outs on Monday after a brief break from her winter exertions. The Michael Moroney-trained daughter of Ocean Park enjoyed a hit-out over 800m on the outside of the course proper, with Craig Williams aboard, who partnered the mare to victory in both the[...]

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[...]

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

Queensland campaign for Babylon Berlin

Swansong for Tofane

Tofane, Isotope fancied in Brisbane Winter Carnival pre-noms

Options aplenty for Babylon Berlin

Holiday for Pareanui Bay

Quick turnaround for Memsie-bound Tofane

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

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