McDonald the Key for Pontiana to Wear Tiara

This season’s leading jockey in New Zealand, the talented young James McDonald, is being tipped as the key to unlocking the potential of the John Hawkes-trained filly Pontiana when she...

Brown Has Work to do on Temple Without Boom Draw

Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Corey Brown will certainly earn his riding fee aboard Tony Gollan’s courageous Toowoomba galloper Temple Of Boom on Saturday, the four-year-old coming up with the ‘visitor’s draw’...

Tiara Day Delays Kiwi Hoop’s 200 Home Runs

Gun New Zealand jockey James McDonald has opted to put his attempt at riding 200 winners at home on hold to honour his four rides at Eagle Farm’s Tattersall’s Tiara...

Tiara Not the Only Jewel Wood’s Eyeing Off

Classy Stradbroke Handicap third-placegetter Zero Rock may be Kelso Wood’s sole runner at Eagle Farm this Saturday, but the top local trainer has a number of other promising runners getting...

No Returning Tiara to Sender if Moody Wins

Premier Victorian trainer Peter Moody has enjoyed a year packed-full of success thanks to his stable star Black Caviar and this weekend he will attempt to take his elite level...

Dire Draw and Zero Luck for Wood’s Tiara Bid

Top local trainer Kelso Wood is likely to be shaking his head after his consistent five-year-old mare Zero Rock drew her fourth double-digit barrier in as many races for this...

Time is Right for O’Shea to Step into Tiara

Randwick horseman John O’Shea is confident the time is right for his last-start Eagle Farm winning filly Steps In Time to score a big Group 1 win when she lines...

Little Doubt in Beaded Tiara as Favourite Draws Three

There is now even less doubt that this year’s Tattersall’s Tiara won’t belong to Beaded come the end of Group 1 racing this Saturday after Peter Snowden’s wonderfully consistent mare...

Sargent Keen for Kiwi to be Keeper of Tiara

New Zealand’s Matamata-based trainer John Sargent is hoping his smart Keeper mare St Germaine can continue her promising for down under and give the favourites a run for their money...

Stradbroke Miss Could Give Varenna the Tiara

Mornington trainer Tony Noonan and connections are confident that their decision to bypass the $1 million Stradbroke Handicap showdown a fortnight ago with in-form mare Varenna Miss will be the...

Brown Seeks Back-to-Back Winter Stakes Wins With Beaded

Champion, former Melbourne Cup-winning hoop Corey Brown will this Saturday vie for successive wins in the season’s final Group 1 race as he prepares to take the mount on Tattersall’s...

Yosei Ready for Winter Stakes Payne

Cranbourne-based horseman Stuart Webb is convinced his dual Group 1 winning filly Yosei can return to form at Eagle Farm this Saturday in time to snare the final elite level...