Since 2000, mares have won 16 of the 25 Australian Horse of the Year titles … and that will continue this year when Via Sistina takes her place among an honour roll that features Winx, Black Caviar, Makybe Diva and Sunline.
Via Sistina now sits alongside champion mare Winx in the history books with her victory in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes that will seal Horse of the Year honours.
Tips, inside mail, market movers and the latest track conditions … Ray Thomas gives you all the information you need to back a winner not just on Day 2 of The Championships at Royal Randwick, but right around Australia today.
English maestro William Haggas isn’t surprised by Dubai Honour’s form surge as the trainer closes in on a fourth win in five years in the Group 1 $5 million Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m) at Royal Randwick on Saturday.
Driven by the heartbreak of two narrow defeats aboard Hong Kong superstar Romantic Warrior, James McDonald is on a revenge mission with Via Sistina in Saturday’s Queen Elizabeth Stakes.
Globetrotting jockey Christophe Lemaire only needed a couple of minutes with Japanese raider Rousham Park to know he’s ready to be a key player in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes.
Trainer William Haggas changed tack with Dubai Honour in his lead-up to the Queen Elizabeth Stakes and jockey Tom Marquand feels it can still deliver a second win in the Group 1.
Form expert Shayne O’Cass dissects the 10-race card Day 2 of The Championships at Royal Randwick on Saturday, presenting his tips and race-by-race analysis.
Ceolwulf’s campaign has been littered with setbacks, but trainer Joe Pride couldn’t be more confident as Ceolwulf aims for the second leg of a royal double in Saturday’s Queen Elizabeth Stakes.
This is what the jockeys had to say after the running of the Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.
Three international contenders will give further star power to day two of The Championships at Royal Randwick this Saturday.
Superstar jockey Christophe Lemaire won the Melbourne Cup on his first visit to Australia and will be hoping to have a similar impact on day two of The Championships at Royal Randwick.
There will be no Queen Elizabeth Stakes defence for Pride Of Jenni, who will head towards the Queensland winter carnival instead.
The field has been declared and barrier draw completed for the $5 million Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.
A familiar nemesis is standing in the way of yet another Australian Horse of the Year-elect claiming a crowning glory in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes on Day 2 of The Championships at Royal Randwick.
Trainer Ciaron Maher has been rewarded for his patience with expensive import Light Infantry Man, who faces his biggest test against Via Sistina in Saturday’s Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Royal Randwick.
Saturday’s Queen Elizabeth Stakes is still an option for reigning champ Pride Of Jenni, with a crucial track gallop on Monday to determine her path ahead of a Queensland campaign.
Champion mare Via Sistina is racing to emulate the great Winx in the $5 million Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m) on Day Two of The Championships at Royal Randwick this Saturday.
Dubai Honour kept his unbeaten Australian record intact in the Group 1 Tancred Stakes and a clash with superstar mare Via Sistina now awaits in the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes.
Joe Pride concedes Ceolwulf will needs to improve to threaten Via Sistina in the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes after scrambling to a narrow victory in the Neville Sellwood Stakes at Rosehill.
The Tancred Stakes meeting has been rescheduled as trainer Joe Pride reveals what this means for Ceolwulf, and James McDonald has confirmed when he will leave for Dubai.
Jockey Chad Schofield is confident Ceolwulf is ready to lay down an emphatic Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes marker on the seven-day back-up at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday.
English maestro William Haggas says James McDonald’s reluctance to split Horse of the Year-elect Via Sistina and Hong Kong champion Romantic Warrior is the ultimate compliment to the mighty mare.
Ceolwulf, a narrow third in last Saturday’s Group 1 George Ryder Stakes, is poised to line up again at Rosehill Gardens this Saturday before his main target for The Championships.
English trainer William Haggas set for another strong hand during Sydney’s upcoming The Championships.
Rising superstar Ceolwulf will be restricted to a weight-for-age program aimed at a showdown with Via Sistina in the $5 million Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Royal Randwick during The Championships next autumn.
Smokin’ Romans scored his first win after 770 days in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes, and trainer Ciaron Maher is keen to continue his campaign.
Master trainer Chris Waller hopes his new import Kinesiology can ‘do a Soulcombe’ by winning the Group 3 Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2600m) before becoming a Melbourne Cup contender next year.
Trainer Dan O’Sullivan is already looking ahead to next year’s Melbourne Cup with Berkeley Square, which starts with Saturday’s Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Flemington.
The chief adviser on senate matters has made a big call on Lidia Thorpe’s eligibility, after the bombshell revelation she’d pledged allegiance to the Queen’s “hairs”.
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