Scary times ahead as emerging stayer aims high
Victoria Derby runner-up Scary will embark on an Australian Guineas and Derby mission when he resumes in Saturday’s Group 3 CS Hayes Stakes at Flemington.
Victoria Derby runner-up Scary will embark on an Australian Guineas and Derby mission when he resumes in Saturday’s Group 3 CS Hayes Stakes at Flemington.
The Apollo Stakes entries oozes star power including Cox Plate champion Via Sistina, emerging superstar Ceolwulf, and last year’s winner Fangirl.
An outstanding Sydney three-year-old is the early favourite to complete a great Australian sprinting double in Saturday’s Group 1 Black Caviar Lightning at Flemington.
Group 1 placegetter Kuroyanagi is back in work and has some black-type goals during the Adelaide autumn racing carnival.
An improved Autumn Capital showed he is the one to beat in the Group 1 Australian Guineas after a sensational return in the Group 2 Autumn Stakes at Caulfield.
Having to part with $55,000 was made a lot easier after unbeaten gelding Field Of Play won the Blue Diamond Prelude to grab favouritism for the $2m Group 1.
Bellazaine missed out on a start in the Inglis Millennium but her consolation win in the Lonhro Plate could still prove valuable.
Grant Buckley will have his first ride back almost eight months after a horse flipped on him, and reveals how close he came to being unable to walk again.
Trainer Robbie Griffiths has warned Rey Magnerio won’t be at his peak in the Rubiton Stakes with a pair of Group 1 targets on the radar.
It took 37 starts for South Australian mare Prairie Flower to claim a first stakes win and her trainers are optimistic she can secure another in the Group 2 Rubiton Stakes at Caulfield.
Racenet was first with the news of Alligator Blood’s stable switch to Chris Waller and now we can reveal a potential comeback race for the seven-time Group 1 winning superstar.
Jamie Melham has formed a winning combination with Another Wil and says victory in the Group 1 CF Orr Stakes will be “very special”.
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