Harry Eustace has revealed that Saturday week’s Ebor Handicap (1m 6f) at York will determine whether Crystal Delight (New Approach) and Ziggy (Sixties Icon) will join their stablemate Docklands (Massaat) on the plane to the spring carnival.  Eustace told Racing.com that Crystal Delight shapes as a more likely traveller off the back of a winning... Read More

Michael Hawkes called Theblade (Toronado) “the real deal” after the colt made a hugely impressive debut at Randwick-Kensington on Wednesday. The son of Toronado (High Chaparral) is Black Caviar’s (Bel Esprit) nephew, being out of the champion sprinter’s unraced half-sister Brigite (Casino Prince), herself a sister to Team Hawkes’ former top-level racer turned successful sire... Read More

Exciting three-year-olds ready to step up to their respective stakes targets this weekend Trainer Tony McEvoy is confident Saturday’s Caulfield launch of three-year-old stakes racing will herald a powerful spring for two of his runners – both budding stable stars who go into the day off starkly different backstories. Blue Stratum (Blue Point) is surging... Read More

The Roger Varian-trained Charyn (4 c Dark Angel – Futoon by Kodiac) stamped home his claim to be considered Europe’s best miler with a thoroughly authoritative victory in Sunday’s Prix Jacques le Marois (Gr 1, 1600m) at Deauville. Having been a Group 2 winner as a juvenile, and placed at the highest level as a... Read More

Brisbane-based trainer Rob Heathcote declared Cosmo Centaurus (Cosmic Force) the most exciting young horse he has had in his care since Group 1 winner Rothfire (Rothesay) after the gelding became his second-season Newgate sire’s tenth winner in impressive style at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday. After wins in the past three of his four barrier... Read More