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Momentum builds for Alabama Express
Image: Alabama Express (Credit: Yulong) With a fresh stakes winner, the fifth from his first crop, and a huge boost in numbers among his rising two-year-old crop, Alabama Express (Redoute’s Choice) has been tipped by Yulong to launch into his first Hunter Valley season in irrepressible style in the coming spring. The nine-year-old’s black type... Read More
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Justify gelding Ndola breaks through in Santa Ana Lane Final
Image: Ndola (Credit: Racing Photos) Another Coolmore stallion on the stakes scoresheet during Flemington’s Finals Day was Justify (Scat Daddy), whose gelded son Ndola rewarded connections’ long-held belief with a maiden black type win in the Santa Ana Lane Sprint Series Final (Listed, 1200m). Resuming from a spell, the four-year-old made every post a winning... Read More
Marwooba steps up to land Taj Rossi Final
Image: Marwooba (Credit: Racing Photos) Wootton Bassett (Iffraaj) colt Marwooba continued his rapid rise through the juvenile ranks when claiming his first black-type success in Saturday’s Taj Rossi Series Final (Listed, 1600m) at Flemington, providing the Hawkes stable with another promising spring prospect. Purchased by Hawkes Racing for $400,000 out of Yarraman Park at the... Read More
Cellarmaster toughs it out to land Winx Guineas breakthrough
Image: Cellarmaster (Credit: Grant Peters) The Tom Charlton-trained gelding Cellarmaster (Bivouac) was all-heart in Saturday’s Winx Guineas (Gr 3, 1600m), bursting from well back in the field to land a stakes breakthrough in the Group 3 feature at the Sunshine Coast. From the immediate family of champion New Zealand mare Melody Belle (Commands), the three-year-old... Read More
Winx within reach for Lucky Vega filly
Image: Within The Law (Credit: Racing Photos) Trainer Bjorn Baker is confident former outstanding two-year-old Within The Law (Lucky Vega) can go close to breaking a lengthy winning drought on a quick back-up into Saturday’s Winx Guineas (Gr 3, 1600m) at the Sunshine Coast. Another shrewd yearling purchase by Baker’s highly successful associate Darby Racing... Read More
Winx Stakes set to provide big clue to second season sires’ table question
Image: Bivouac and Wootton Bassett (Credit: Darley/Coolmore) A gelding and a colt with strong links to outstanding New Zealand racemares will contest an intriguing edition of the race named after Australia’s finest one in Saturday’s Winx Guineas (Gr 3, 1600m) at the Sunshine Coast. And at stake could be the first place honours on the... Read More