Stallions
Trainer Mitchell Freedman’s impressive stable of three-year-olds, which includes Classic hopefuls Moonlight Maid and Southern Moon, grew by one at Moonee Valley on Saturday when the Smart Missile filly Broadwayandfourth powered home to earn her first stakes win in Saturday’s Listed Crockett Stakes (1200m). Punters let out a cheer when short-priced favourite Villami kick-clear rounding […]
[ Read More ]Group III placed twice previously, progressive Smart Missile mare Smart Coupe finally scored a well-deserved first Black Type success when resuming from a spell to win the $140,000 Listed The Breeze Retirement Stakes at Geelong on Wednesday. Trained by Matt Ellerton and Simon Zahra, Smart Coupe charged home from off the pace to score a […]
[ Read More ]Two stakes-winners from last weekend highlighted the power of very successful nick involving a Golden Slipper winner and a champion racehorse and sire. Canny Lad has long been regarded as an outstanding broodmare sire and two of his daughters delivered stakes-winners on Saturday in Gamay and Deprive, both of them sired by sons of Lonhro […]
[ Read More ]Saturday’s Alinghi Stakes (Listed, 1100m) winner Humma Humma (Denman) will likely have her next engagement in the Begonia Belle Stakes (Gr3, 1100m) at Flemington on November 2. John McArdle is impressed with the way the mare has pulled up after Saturday’s victory and will now press on to Flemington. Saturday’s victory took the four-year-old’s record […]
[ Read More ]Shortly after the Denman mare Humma Humma came from the tail of the field to win the Listed Alinghi Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield, (read that story here) Godolphin’s 5yo Denman gelding Deprive repeated the dose in the $500,000 Group III Sydney Stakes (1200m) at Randwick. Deprive has yet to be beaten in six starts at Randwick but […]
[ Read More ]Mornington trainer John McArdle and a big team of owners have already had a lot of fun with talented Denman mare Humma Humma, who produced a personal best performance to win the Listed MRC Alinghi Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield on Saturday. Humma Humma wins Alinghi Stakes – image Grant Courtney Stakes-placed five times and a […]
[ Read More ]The Breeders’ Plate might only carry Group 3 status but to champion trainer Gai Waterhouse it’s one of the most important races on the calendar. Trainer Gai Waterhouse (Pic: Bradley Photos) Two-year-old racing is a passion, almost an obsession, for Waterhouse that was sparked by a few words from her legendary father, TJ Smith, just […]
[ Read More ]Yao Dash. Photo: Steve Hart. Tulloch Lodge are trusting their judgement for differing reasons with Golden Rose duo Yao Dash and Dawn Passage as they prepare to launch in the $1 million Rosehill feature on Saturday. Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott are backing themselves that Yao Dash is up to cracking a Group I at start three while they’re also […]
[ Read More ]Lightly-raced gelding bidding to preserve his unbeaten record in Saturday’s Group 1 contest – By Tim Rowe By his own admission, the speed in which Yao Dash (Smart Missile) has emerged as a genuine Golden Rose Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) contender has taken Dynamic Syndications’ Adam Watt by surprise, but the reports from Nash Rawiller […]
[ Read More ]Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott have some thinking to do after Yao Dash beat a field of budding stars in the Strawberry Hills Stud 3YO Benchmark 72 Handicap (1300m) at Randwick on Saturday. Yao Dash had plenty of support in pre-race betting, firming on-course from $3.60 to jump the $3.30 favourite and he led throughout to defeat Funstar […]
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