With the Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival over for another year, there are still plenty of top class Listed races left to take place in Queensland over the next few weeks to keep racing fans excited in the lead-up to the coveted Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival….
Premier Irish trainer Dermot Weld’s pre-nomination Melbourne Cup favourite Profound Beauty suffered a slight setback when beaten on Saturday in the Group 3 Curragh Cup (2816m) by Tactic.
The Danehill mare is Weld’s leading contender for this year’s 150th Melbourne Cup at Flemington on the…
Gerald Ryan’s classy filly Melito finally put an end to her frustrating succession of minor placings this winter with a powerful win in the final Group 1 feature of the 2009/10 Australian racing season, the $500,000 Winter Stakes (1400m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday.
Melito…
Bill and Symon Wilde’s improving galloper Hissing Sid has had his winter racing campaign cut short, but will return in the spring with the illustrious 150th Melbourne Cup to be his major target.
Five-year-old Golden Snake gelding Hissing Sid is a dual winner of the…
This Saturday Queensland’s final Group 1 race of the season will take place when the esteemed Eagle Farm Racecourse hosts the $500,000 Group 1 Winter Stakes (1400m).
The 2010 Sky Racing Winter Stakes has attracted a top quality field of 13 fillies and mares including…
Classy Danehill mare Profound Beauty, trained by leading Irish mentor Dermot Weld, is likely to run at Curragh this Sunday in the lead up to her Melbourne Cup campaign in the spring.
The six-year-old returned to racing at the end of last month and was…
With the coveted 150th Melbourne Cup less than six months away, punters are eagerly watching the winter staying races hoping to spot this year’s Melbourne Cup winner. On Saturday one such race took place in Queensland when the $200,000 Listed Channel 7 Ipswich Cup (2150m)….
Premier Irish horse trainer Dermot Weld could possibly have uncovered this year’s Melbourne Cup winner when his galloper Rite Of Passage won the Group 1 Ascot Gold Cup in record breaking time on Thursday.
Rival trainer Aidan O’Brien had previously enjoyed a four year winning…
Although the action of the Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival came to a close with a massive Stradbroke Handicap Day last Saturday, there are still plenty of excellent races happening at courses around the country this weekend.
The next Group status event on the calendar doesn’t…
On Saturday Black Piranha awarded his trainer, Con Karakatsanis’s patience when he made it back-to-back success in Queensland’s richest sprint, the $1 million Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) at Eagle Farm.
Black Piranha had not won a race since his success in the Stradbroke last…
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