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Lightning strikes at Randwick for dynamic duo
The dynamic duo of trainer Peter Moody and owner-breeder Stuart Ramsey had a shot at the stumps and struck again when tough mare Chain Of Lightning (Fighting Sun) became her late sire’s first elite-level winner with a fighting – and very timely – victory in Saturday’s TJ Smith Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m). Moody and co-trainer... Read More
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Move To Strike scores in Sires’ Produce Stakes
Te Akau Racing produced the goods once again in a major two-year-old event when the highly touted Move To Strike (I Am Invincible) came with a powerful late burst to capture Saturday’s Sires’ Produce Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) at Trentham. The son of I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit), who was purchased by Te Akau Racing... Read More
Stefano Cherchi dies aged 23 after race fall in Canberra
Stefano Cherchi has died two weeks on from suffering serious injuries in a fall at Canberra. He was 23. Cherchi was placed in an induced coma after suffering head injuries and internal bleeding when his mount Hasime (Denman) fell during a race at Thoroughbred Park on March 20. He was one of three jockeys dislodged... Read More
Snowden’s hoping ‘under the radar’ Fearless can come of age at Randwick
Son of Yulong’s Pierata attempts to land first stakes win in this weekend’s Inglis Sires’ Forecasts of an autumn carnival-style Biblical deluge and a feeling that Fearless (Pierata) has slipped under the radar has co-trainer Peter Snowden increasingly hopeful the colt can spring an upset in Saturday’s Inglis Sires’ (Gr 1, 1400m). At first glance,... Read More
Al Quoz triumph for Hong Kong’s California Spangle
Tony Cruz’s prolific sprinter-miler California Spangle (6 g Starspangledbanner – Pearlitas Passion by High Chaparral) produced a stunning performance to record an all-the-way win in the Al Quoz Sprint (Gr 1, 1200m) on Saturday’s Dubai World Cup night at Meydan. Breaking the track record in the process with a time clocking 1:07.50, the high-class six-year-old... Read More
Belclare goes back-to-back in Breeders’ Stakes
Perennially under-rated mare Belclare (6 m Per Incanto – Miss Rhythmic by O’Reilly) had a richly deserved day in the Ellerslie sun on Saturday, bringing her high-class New Zealand racing career to a close with a successful defence of her title in the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m). The Lisa Latta-trained mare... Read More