Sunshine Coast Guineas

Queensland Assignments For Ritchie Pair

Posted on May 3, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

With New Zealand heading into the colder winter months, many Kiwis are dreaming of a Gold Coast escape, but Cambridge trainer Shaune Ritchie is living that reality at the moment. Ritchie, who trains in partnership with Colm Murray, is campaigning Badgers Nuts and Swords Drawn over the Queensland Winter Carnival and he said the pair[...]

Posted on July 5, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Promising Star Of Michelin's liking for big racetracks will see him on a quick turnaround into the Group Three Winx Guineas. The Sunshine Coast Guineas (1600m) has been renamed after retired superstar Winx who won it in 2015. The race always attracts a strong field but trainer Stuart Kendrick believes Star Of Michelin will not[...]

Posted on December 3, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Winx will be celebrated with another race in her name with the Group Three Sunshine Coast Guineas to honour the champion who began her sequence of 33 wins in the Group Three race. The now-retired Winx won the 2015 Sunshine Coast Guineas (1600m), producing a devastating burst of speed from back in the field, a[...]

Posted on June 30, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

The Sunshine Coast Turf Club will push for a prize money increase and an upgrade to Group Two status for its Guineas next season. The Sunshine Coast Guineas has been a Group Three race since 2012 and carries $140,000 prize money which is $35,000 less than the Listed Caloundra Cup and Listed Glasshouse Handicap. The[...]

Posted on June 29, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Trainer David Vandyke admitted even he had nearly given up in the middle stages before his tough filly Baccarat Baby won the Group Three Sunshine Coast Guineas (1600m) on Saturday. Baccarat Bay ($3.70) was trapped deep in the middle of the field at the 800m but quickly had the field covered at the 300m. She[...]

Posted on June 27, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

The best guide to Blue Comet's chances in the Sunshine Coast Guineas is that his trainer Noel Doyle accepted with him in the Group Three race. Bookmakers have Blue Comet at 100-1 Doyle believes he will be far from disgraced in a Guineas which seems to be down in class on recent years. Doyle has[...]

Posted on June 27, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Michael Hellyer is confident he can deliver only the second hometown victory in the Group Three Sunshine Coast Guineas. Hellyer will ride Saturday's favourite Baccarat Baby who has been the best performed Queensland three-year-old this winter. The jockey's first stakes win was on Tuskegee Hawk for Len Treloar in the 2011 Guineas. It is the[...]

Posted on June 26, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Talented gelding Starkers has one of the cleverest names in racing and he can join some genuine big names if he wins the Sunshine Coast Guineas. A $15,000 yearling from the Magic Millions Sales, Starkers is by Love Conquers All out of Nude Model. While the Fred Best Classic and Queensland Guineas are proven future[...]

Posted on June 7, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Tony Pike believes he has found the recipe for three-year-old success in Queensland and he will begin to follow that formula at Eagle Farm on Saturday when Cyber Attack contests the Listed Daybreak Lover Stakes (1200m). Pike's dual Group 1 winner The Bostonian won the race last year before going on to win over 1350m[...]

Queensland Assignments For Ritchie Pair

Star Of Michelin To Back-Up In Group 3 Guineas

Sunshine Coast Guineas Renamed To Honour Winx

Upgrade Push For Sunshine Coast Guineas

Baccarat Baby Too Tough In Guineas

Blue Comet To Make Mockery Of Big Odds

Michael Hellyer After Another Guineas Win

Starkers To Join Elite Guineas Winners

Cyber Attack to follow winning recipe

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