Untapped filly Joliestar (Zoustar) has emerged as a contender for The Everest (1200m) with her trainer Chris Waller revealing he is keen to give the mare an opportunity to audition for the $20 million feature.  The Thousand Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) winner was among a host of stars to step out at the Rosehill barrier... Read More

Spring stakes races are on the radar for lightly raced colt Mayfair (2 c Fastnet Rock ex Cicatrix, by Violence) after he broke his maiden in a 1200-metre contest at Rosehill on Saturday.  One of Newgate Farm-China Horse Club’s portfolio of colts, the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained juvenile  was able to cross from barrier... Read More

Colmar (Strasbourg) showed his toughness and his speed to become the first stakes winner for Rosemont Stud’s first-season sire Strasbourg (I Am Invincible) when the gelding landed Saturday’s South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes (Gr 3, 1400m) at Morphettville. Trained at Murray Bridge by Ron Daniel and Trish Stanbury and ridden by Samuel Payne, Colmar bounced... Read More

Arrowfield stallion Dundeel (High Chaparral) already looks to hold a strong hand for the first staying Classic of the season – the VRC Derby (Gr 1, 2500m) – after his sons ran the quinella in Saturday’s traditional early lead-up at Flemington. The Nick Ryan-trained Red Aces (Dundeel) and Danny O’Brien’s Politely Dun (Dundeel) fought out... Read More

Written Tycoon colt will be targeted at the Coolmore Stud Stakes this spring The Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained colt First Settler (Written Tycoon) lived up to his small odds and large price-tag when he added further trimmings to Written Tycoon’s (Iglesia) two-year-old sires’ title by taking Saturday’s Russell Dawson Plate (1000m) at Flemington.... Read More