Wet tracks and big weights have forced trainer Gillian Heinrich to abandon Military Rose’s campaign aimed at next month’s $1 million Group One 2010 Golden Rose at Rosehill. The Magic Millions winner will instead head to Melbourne for the Group One 2010 Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200m) at Flemington on Derby Day, October 30. Heinrich was [...]
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Glen Boss has been engaged by master trainer Bart Cummings to ride reigning 2010 Melbourne Cup favourite Faint Perfume throughout her spring campaign. Boss said he was impressed with the rising four-year-old mare’s effort in defeat when runner-up to Once Were Wild in the AJC Australian Oaks at Randwick at her latest outing in April. [...]
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There was a welcome sight at Canterbury on Wednesday as legendary trainer Bart Cummings returned to the races for the first time in more than three months. Cummings hadn’t been seen on a Sydney racetrack since Golden Slipper day on April 3 but he didn’t waste time training a winner on his return. The master [...]
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Bart Cummings is set to win a record third Fred Hoysted Medal after being named as one of five finalists for Victoria’s highest training honour. The racing legend was the nation’s leading Group One trainer for the season and earned his nomination from the Australian Trainers’ Association after four of his seven winners at the [...]
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Chase The Sun, who last campaign got within a length of Caulfield Cup placegetter Vigor, is on the verge of recapturing his best form. Trainer Mike Moroney said it would be D-day for the six-year-old when he contests Saturday’s Don Abell Cup (2500m) at Moonee Valley. Chase The Sun is on the comeback trail after [...]
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Gai Waterhouse has a number of smart rising three-year-olds headed towards the Group One Golden Rose next month and one of them will push his case for inclusion in the $1 million race at Randwick on Saturday. Impressive debut winner Squamosa will have his first test in Saturday company in the Schweppes Handicap (1400m). The [...]
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Australia’s most famous race is back on Gai Waterhouse’s spring radar for the first time in five years. Waterhouse revealed during a busy barrier trial session at Randwick on Monday that her recent absence from the Melbourne Cup limelight was an unwanted glitch on an otherwise outstanding training career. “I sat there and watched the [...]
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Champion jockey Craig Williams has returned from a successful stint in Japan and will ride at Sandown on Wednesday and Moonee Valley on Saturday. Williams, who hasn’t ridden in Melbourne since Anzac Day, rode 12 winners in Japan over two months including the Group One Tenno Sho aboard Jaguar Mail at Kyoto in May on [...]
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Horse of the Year elect Typhoon Tracy will take a different path through the early spring to her 2009 campaign. Typhoon Tracy, who has won 10 of her 14 starts including five Group One races, will resume in the Group Two Memsie Stakes (1400m) on her home track at Caulfield on August 28. “She’s going [...]
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Blake Shinn has snared the ride on talented colt Hinchinbrook who ramps up his spring preparation with a barrier trial this week. Since splitting with the Gai Waterhouse stable earlier this year to become a free agent, Shinn has developed a successful association with Hinchinbrook’s trainer Gerald Ryan, including a Group One victory on Melito [...]
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