Breeding barn beckons if Frankel mare doesn’t fire at Rosehill for her new trainer Pride Regally-bred stakes-winning mare Argentia (Frankel) could be on her last chance to forestall a second scheduled retirement to the breeding barn in Sydney’s first black type race of the season for new trainer Joe Pride today. John Camilleri’s five-year-old, a... Read More

Star juveniles make early season reappearance at Sydney barrier trial session An imposing array of three-year-old talent from Coolmore was on show at Canterbury’s barrier trials yesterday, as a quartet headed by Golden Slipper (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Shinzo (Snitzel) and $3 million stablemate Kandinsky Abstract (Zoustar) returned for their spring campaigns on the first... Read More

The five-day Glorious Goodwood meeting kicks off in West Sussex today, it’s a week famous for panama hats, linen suits and of course a host of top-class racing. With three Group 1s throughout the week, kicking off with the Goodwood Cup (Gr 1, 2m) today, the Sussex Stakes (Gr 1, 1m) tomorrow, while the Nassau... Read More

Owen Burrows’ stable flagbearer Hukum (6 h Sea The Stars – Aghareed by Kingmambo) answered all potential doubters in emphatic fashion yesterday as he bravely battled to deliver a historic success in the King George and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (Gr 1, 1m 4f) at Ascot. Having registered a breakthrough victory at flat racing’s top table... Read More

Cliff Brown’s three-year-old opens her stakes account with Exploring scratched at the barrier on veterinary advice In the literal French translation that reads ‘The Red Dancer’, La Danseuse Rouge (Manhattan Rain) showed plenty of moves to etch her name on the illustrious roll of honour in yesterday’s Lightning Stakes (Listed, 1050m) at Morphettville. The final... Read More