Manfred win tinged with sadness for Begg
Royal Insignia provided trainer Grahame Begg with a timely win in the Manfred Stakes at Sandown a day after a tragedy for the stable.
Royal Insignia provided trainer Grahame Begg with a timely win in the Manfred Stakes at Sandown a day after a tragedy for the stable.
Disappointed one of his horses missed out on an opportunity in a stakes race, the win of Cosmonova at Randwick was a just result for Joe Pride and Proven Thoroughbreds.
Philosopher, an $800,000 yearling who was later sold for $18,000, continued to repay his connections with his first stakes victory at Sandown.
Clear Thinking remained unbeaten at Randwick but her comeback victory in the Highway has created a predicament.
James Cummings says if Stradbroke Handicap favourite Vilana isn’t in contention in the final stages, his gaze will switch to a rival runner ridden by a young jockey who he says rides with great bravery.
Ray Thomas and Ron Dufficy analyse all 10 races at Rosehill on Saturday, plus they cast their eyes over the Stradbroke Handicap and JJ Atkins at Eagle Farm.
Socially Sassy has Mornington Peninsula retirement villages, Frankston RSL and even tax men in raptures for her Sandown test on Saturday.
Still a teenager and not taking to schooling, the French-born now Australian horse trainer found himself riding trackwork on the beaches of Normandy.
Racing Victoria has endorsed a “short trial” of Saturday night summer racing at Cranbourne.
Archie Alexander would love to have a stable of Crackerjack Princes, especially if the consistent galloper can post a third-up win at Sandown on Saturday.
Things are transpiring against Bella Nipotina in Saturday’s Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap, however her jockey says he’d rather be on no other course as he looks to break all kinds of records in the race.
Trainers Tony and Calvin McEvoy will follow the lead of one of Australia’s training immortals with imported galloper Concorde, who makes his local debut at Sandown on Saturday
A couple of Cranbourne trainer Grahame Begg’s previous stars have gone close to winning the Stradbroke Handicap but Magic Time might be the one to break the drought.
A winner of two of her eight starts in Ireland, Ha Ha Ha, hasn’t raced for 20 months but Adrian Bott says the rising six-year-old is ready to return to competition.
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