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Day Eight – Newmarket Quarantine Inmates Take It Easy

After a stronger piece of work with fellow Melbourne Cup (Gr 1, 3200m) entrant Tiberian (Tiberius Caesar) yesterday, the Hughie Morrison-trained Marmelo (Duke Of Marmalade) was given a gentle canter around Side Hill yesterday and looked in good condition. The Willie Mullins-trained pair Wicklow Brave (Beat Hollow) and Riven Light (Raven’s Pass), were also given... Read More

Naantali (NZ)

O: Greenwich Stud T: Ciaron Maher B: C A & C C Chamberlain, H M & M J Moran S: New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale 2016: V: Windsor Park Stud $180,000 P: Ciaron Maher Racing W: Laming Racing Maiden Plate, 1200m, Cranbourne, 20 September Naantali broke well from her wide barrier 12 and was... Read More

The $10,000,000 The Everest Is Looming – So Too Is Chautauqua

Having his first start since his brilliant last-to-first victory in the T J Smith Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) at Randwick on 1 April, Chautauqua was again settled at the tail of the field on Saturday. In fact he was still last at the 200 metres mark, before Brenton Avdulla switched the grey deeper and in... Read More

Day Seven – Melbourne Cup Contenders Out On Side Hill

The Alain Couetil-trained and Australian Thoroughbred Bloodstock-raced Tiberian and the Hughie Morrison-trained Marmelo both arrived in quarantine having won their last appearances at Deauville, with the latter having taken out the Prix Kergorlay (Gr 2, 3000m) on 20 August and Tiberian the Grand Prix de Deauville (Gr 2, 2500m) a week later. Meanwhile, the Andreas... Read More

Heartache flies in the Childers

Two-Year-Olds The Clive Cox-trained Heartache (2 f Kyllachy – Place In My Heart by Compton Place) regained the winning thead when she stayed on powerfully to win the Flying Childers Stakes (Gr 2, 5f) at Doncaster on Friday. The two-year-old filly surrendered her unbeaten record at her penultimate start when she ran third in the... Read More

Day Six – Riven Light To Have A Few Entries In Melbourne

The Willie Mullins-trained pair Wicklow Brave (Beat Hollow) and Riven Light (Raven’s Pass), who arrived in quarantine on Thursday having won the Listowel Stakes (Listed, 1m1f) a week ago, were steadily cantered once round. Riven Light is in the Cox Plate (Gr 1, 2040m), but he will have a few other entries in Melbourne and... Read More