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Tufilli looking for Placid Ark success with homebred filly
Daughter of Deep Field bids to upset the boys as feature races turn to Perth Black–type racing in Perth begins to heat up today, with a showpiece three-year-old event in the Placid Ark Stakes (Listed, 1200m) shaping as a story of Deep Field (Northern Meteor), two fillies and Nino Tufilli. Newgate Farm’s surging stallion Deep... Read More
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Silent Sovereign
Emotions ran high, amid remembrances of people and horses past, when Silent Sovereign (Dalakhani) stormed home to take Saturday’s Queen Of The South Stakes (Gr 2, 1600m) at Morphettville. And they’ll run even higher if she can win the Caulfield Cup (Gr 1, 2400m) this spring. The five-year-old mare owes her existence to a giant... Read More
Trelawney Train
Between last Thursday and Saturday, 22 stakes races were scheduled to be run in Australasia. Weather intervened in Queensland reducing the count to 20 and what a mixed bag they were. On Saturday, New Zealand was represented by two stakes winners at Caulfield and one at Rosehill. However, of the three stakes run at home,... Read More
Hilal (AUS)
There can be few more potent pedigrees in Australian racing at present than that of Hilal, who broke through for black-type success with a slashing win in Saturday’s Stan Fox Stakes (Gr 2, 1500m) at Randwick. The Team Hawkes-trained colt is from one of Emirates Park’s strongest female families – one which has spawned such... Read More
Cheong not going down without a fight
Sio Cheong signaled a warning to Stanley Chin that the Trainers’ Championship is by no means over with a double on the weekend taking him within four winners of Chin, with the score now reading 41 to 37. With just six racedays remaining, Chin is still in a strong position and it will not be... Read More