Horse Racing

Safeguard has claimed the first race on ATC Australian Derby Day upon winning the 2013 Kindergarten Stakes.

The Exceed And Excel colt has now won both his career starts after claiming the $80,000 Christmas Season Plate at Flemington last December.

Safeguard was paying odds of $3.30 to win the Group 3 Kindergarten Stakes at behind favouriteIl Cavallo.

Il Cavallo failed to run on…

After failing to beat the ballot for the Golden Slipper last Saturday, the up-and-coming Peter Moody-trained juvenile Il Cavallo will jump as the first odds-on favourite on the Australian Derby Day program this weekend in the 2013 Kindergarten Stakes.

The opening race on a bumper nine-event program at Royal Randwick on Saturday, the $125,000 Group 3 Ticketek Kindergarten Stakes (1100m)…

Peter Moody’s exciting juvenile Il Cavallo may have missed a start in last Saturday’s Golden Slipper despite connections paying the hefty $150,000 late entry but they get their chance for a consolation prize this weekend in the Kindergarten Stakes 2013 at Randwick.

The Choisir colt debuted at Sandown on March 27 and ran record time over the 900m to win,…

While all the pre-race hype for this Saturday’s ATC Sires Produce Stakes 2013 is on Golden Slipper winner Overreach, connections of Gerald Ryan’s young colt Charlie Boy are hoping for improvement as they too back up from a run in the world’s richest two-year-olds race.

Last Saturday Myboycharlie colt Charlie Boy went out as a $20 chance in the $3.5…

Odds-on favourite Ichihara has been upset by Gerald Ryan-trained colt Dances On Stars in the first race of the day at Randwick in the Group 3 2012 Kindergarten Stakes (1100m).

Ichihara was backed into prior to the race but after jumping poorly for the first time in her career, nothing went right for the Magic Night Stakes winner.

Dances On…

This is it the start of the Royal Randwick Autumn Racing Carnival happens on Saturday with an excellent nine-race, all-Group program planned for 2012 Australian Derby Day, the Races.com.au best bets for the meeting listed below.

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Betting markets have opened for the Group 3 Kindergarten Stakes, which will be the first race of the day at Royal Randwick Racecourse this Saturday April 14, 2012.

Six two-year-olds will feature in the 2012 Kindergarten Stakes, including race favourite Ichihara.

Ichihara is presently paying odds of $2.15 to win the 2012 Kindergarten Stakes at after winning her previous three…

Unbeaten filly Ichihara is the horse to beat in the Group 3 2012 Kindergarten Stakes at Sydney’s Rosehill Gardens this Saturday.

Run over 1100 metres, the Kindergarten Stakes will see a six-horse field of two-year-old horses compete for the top share of $125,000.

Trained by Allan Denham, Ichihara is coming off a win in the Golden Slipper qualifier the Magic…

Unbeaten filly Ichihara heads a small field of two-year-old horses nominated to contest the 2012 Kindergarten Stakes at Sydney’s Royal Randwick Racecourse this Saturday.

Just seven juveniles were nominated for the $175,000 Group 3 event which stands as a support act to the day’s feature races including the TJ Smith Stakes and the Australian Derby.

On form alone, Ichihara looks…

The first of the three major Sydney Autumn Carnival meetings held at Royal Randwick took place today with an action packed afternoon of racing lightning up the track for the 2011 David Jones AJC Australian Derby Day.

As expected, Sydneysiders were treated to some champagne moments including the impressive interstate debut from the world’s best horse, Black Caviar.

Today the…