The Galaxy

Eduardo in the zone ahead of Group 1 clash

Posted on April 8, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

With the mantle of Sydney’s supreme sprinter up for grabs in the T J Smith Stakes, Eduardo’s trainer Joe Pride has cheekily declared arch rival Nature Strip “one-dimensional”. Eduardo already has a points decision over Nature Strip this campaign, getting the better of him in a stirring Challenge Stakes duel in course record time. Pride[...]

Posted on March 31, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

With travel from NSW to South Australia and then Queensland considered too much for Group 1 winning mare Bella Vella, her trainer Will Clarken has called an end to her racing career. Clarken issued a statement on Wednesday calling the career over for the daughter of Commands after finishing 11th to Eduardo in the Group[...]

Posted on March 28, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Chris Waller has revealed how close he came to giving Nature Strip a shot at history in The Galaxy before pulling the plug at the eleventh hour. The star sprinter was allotted top weight of 59.5kg, an impost no horse has carried to victory since the race was first run in 1972. Waller admitted he[...]

Posted on March 28, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Trainer Joe Pride was wondering what could go wrong in the lead up to the Group 1 Galaxy at Rosehill on Saturday. But he need not have worried as Eduardo gave his rivals a galloping lesson to take out the 1100m sprint under handicap conditions. Judging the pace perfectly, Nash Rawiller guided Eduardo () to[...]

Posted on March 26, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

The extra week has done little to diminish the confidence trainer Tony Gollan has in Isotope ahead of her delayed Sydney debut in Saturday’s Listed Darby Munro Stakes. Isotope faces what looks a tougher field compared to the original Darby Munro acceptors, with impressive first up winner Marboosha and Group 1 Thousand Guineas winner Odeum[...]

Posted on March 19, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

When Eduardo made a winning debut for the stable in a winter benchmark race eight months ago, Joe Pride’s thoughts immediately drifted towards The Galaxy as an ideal long-range target. That goal will come to fruition at Rosehill on Saturday, only not in the way Pride imagined. “I picked it out after he won the[...]

Posted on March 19, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

In-Form trainer Tony Gollan concedes heavy ground is always an unknown until a horse encounters it, but considers highly talented filly Isotope a good chance to cope. Queensland’s top ranked filly is scheduled to have her first run in the Listed Darby Munro Stakes this weekend, where early markets have her marked second elect behind[...]

Posted on March 19, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

The rain in Sydney has already claimed one high-profile casualty from the Golden Slipper meeting with Arcadia Queen scratched due to the wet track. Owner Bob Peters made an early call to withdraw the star mare from the Group One George Ryder Stakes and is expected to save her for Tancred Stakes day a week[...]

Posted on March 10, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Libertini will bypass a scheduled barrier trial in favour of a race day excursion as she prepares for her autumn return in The Galaxy on Saturday week. The top sprinter was given a quiet trial at Canterbury last month and was due to have another hitout at the Randwick trial session on Thursday, but trainer[...]

Posted on March 7, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Eduardo has upstaged Nature Strip in the Group 2 Challenge Stakes and in the process smashed the 1000m Randwick track record previously held by Redzel. Fresh off claiming the Group 1 Black Caviar Lightning Stakes (1000m) down the Flemington straight, it looked like business as normal for Nature Strip from the 400m as he swung[...]

Posted on February 13, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Godolphin's Tailleur has posted her first black-type win at Randwick and trainer James Cummings could set his sights even higher this autumn.

Posted on February 10, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

The Group One Galaxy will be the short-term goal for rejuvenated speedster Eduardo, who will continue his build up in a Rosehill barrier trial.

Posted on February 8, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Chris Meagher has his speedy mare Pippie primed for the Black Caviar Lightning where she will try to protect her undefeated first-up record.

Posted on March 21, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

I Am Excited has delivered David Pfieffer his first Group One win in a thrilling finish to The Galaxy at Rosehill. But the Warwick Farm trainer admitted there was also a strange feeling to the biggest victory of his career, with no crowds or owners allowed on course for Saturday’s Golden Slipper meeting because of[...]

Posted on March 20, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Greg Hickman has left no stone unturned in preparing Pierata for what is likely to be his final racing preparation before he is retired to stud. The top sprinter resumes in Saturday’s Group One Galaxy (1100m), a year after he was narrowly denied by Nature Strip in the corresponding race. Since then he has won[...]

Posted on March 19, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Trainer Mike Moroney reckons jockey Michael Dee will be out to make amends in the Group One Galaxy on Tofane after a luckless unplaced run in the Newmarket Handicap. Tofane finished seventh in the recent Group One Newmarket (1200m) but Moroney believes the mare should have finished closer after striking traffic issues and being shuffled[...]

Posted on March 18, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Champion trainer Chris Waller has thrown his support behind Kathy O’Hara who rides lightweight hope Madam Rouge in the Group One Galaxy. Madam Rouge, the winner of three of her past four starts, has 51kg and Waller says O’Hara can get the job done. “I thought long and hard about what jockey to put on[...]

Eduardo in the zone ahead of Group 1 clash

Time called on career of Bella Vella

Nature Strip to tune-up for TJ with trial

Eduardo A Star In The Galaxy

Isotope still ready to rumble

Weighty test for Eduardo in Galaxy

Isotope primed to continue Gollan’s winning Sydney run

Gollan on weather watch with Jonker

Libertini to skip Randwick barrier trials

Eduardo Breaks Randwick Track Record In Challenge

Cummings Considers Galaxy For Tailleur

Trial Tune-Up For Flying Sprinter Eduardo

Pippie Ready For Flying Flemington Finale

I Am Excited Wins Group 1 Galaxy Thriller

Star Sprinter Primed For Galaxy Challenge

Tofane Gets Another Group 1 Chance In Galaxy

Madam Rouge A Lightweight Chance In Galaxy

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