A pre-Christmas juvenile winner for So You Think (High Chaparral) is a rarity, so if his two-year-old filly Almost An Angel can make it two from two in the Merson Cooper Stakes (Listed, 1000m) at Caulfield this Saturday it would deliver another posthumous accolade and further enhance the legacy of Coolmore’s late globetrotting trailblazer.  Almost... Read More

West Australian-based stallion Manhattan Rain (Encosta De Lago) sealed a feature double on the other side of the country when the born-again Jigsaw won the second edition of Cranbourne slot race The Meteorite (1200m) on Saturday. Geisel Park Stud will have been cheering loudly when emerging Manhattan Rain four-year-old Sabaj took the Cranbourne Cup at... Read More

Watch Me Rock (Awesome Rock) raised his West Australian–based sire’s first elite-level winner and gave jockey William Pike a huge decision to make on streaking to victory in the first top-tier feature of the Perth summer, the Railway Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m). Pike steered the Grant and Alana Williams trained five-year-old gelding to a clear-cut... Read More

Exciting three-year-old King Of Light confirmed himself the latest star of the west as he remained unbeaten with a breathtaking win in Saturday’s WA Guineas at Ascot. Sent out a raging $1.75 favourite in his fifth start, the Dan Morton-trained gelding had to show all his class to overcome some adversity early in the home... Read More

Mick Price hailed the emerging Sabaj (Manhattan Rain) as a likely star of the autumn after the lightly raced four-year-old claimed his black type breakthrough with an imposing win in Saturday’s Cranbourne Cup (Listed, 1600m). Starting a well-supported $3.30 favourite, Sabaj gave Price his fourth win in the race and jockey Beau Mertens his third... Read More