Exciting gelding Legacy Bound (Ole Kirk) showed he belonged in the top echelon of Australia’s three-year-olds and brought up a first black-type success of 2025-26 for last term’s champion first season sire Ole Kirk (Written Tycoon) with a stirring victory in Saturday’s Poseidon Stakes (Listed, 1100m). Ahead of Legacy Bound’s resumption following 1200-metre wins in... Read More

Flying filly Tempted (Street Boss) showed her rare class with a dominant victory over a field of males in Saturday’s Run To The Rose (Gr 2, 1200m) at Rosehill, extending Godolphin’s extraordinary record in the race and also put herself in calculations for The Everest (Gr 1, 1200m). Despite being the only female among the... Read More

Mr Brightside (Bullbars) enhanced his reputation as a people’s horse when he benefitted from a Craig Williams riding lesson to secure a tenth elite-level success in Saturday’s Makybe Diva Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m). Williams gave his five rival jockeys a clinic in the Flemington feature, being allowed to set a crawling pace on the eight-year-old... Read More

Ole Kirk (Written Tycoon) has made a strong start in 2025-26 as he looks to kick on from his first season sires’ title, and his top ranked offspring will try to boost the stallion’s stocks further when he resumes for the spring on Saturday. Legacy Bound, the homebred for Ole Kirk’s farm Vinery Stud who’s... Read More

The Cox Plate (Gr 1, 2040m) at The Valley will have no overseas runners in 2025, but there could be as many as four international contenders in the Caulfield Cup (Gr 1, 2400m). Following the release of first declarations for both races on Tuesday, the number of Caulfield Cup hopefuls fell from the original 142... Read More