Breathtaking Attica bags Spring Champion
Attica (Lonhro) capped a golden day for Godolphin colts and his departed stallion while stamping himself a stud-bound star of the future with a breathtaking victory in Saturday’s Spring Champion Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m) at Randwick. Sent out a $4 second-favourite at the fourth start of his first preparation, the Joe Pride-trained colt faced an... Read More
Napoleonic marches to Red Anchor glory
Outstanding stallion Wootton Bassett (Iffraaj) may be gone but he might have left a potential stallion in the making in Napoleonic if Saturday’s Red Anchor Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) is any indication. After wins at Wyong and Warwick Farm for his trainers John O’Shea and Tom Charlton, the three-year-old colt took his Sydney form to... Read More
Bargain buy Salty Pearl lands Fillies Classic
After waiting more than a year for his first Group winner, Yulong Stud stallion Tagaloa (Lord Kanaloa) now has two in the space of a week after bargain buy Salty Pearl won Saturday’s Fillies Classic (Gr 2, 1600m) at Moonee Valley. A week after two-year-old Listed winner Spicy Lu scored Tagaloa’s Group breakthrough in Caulfield’s... Read More
History maker
Via Sistina lands titanic Cox Plate as Waller and McDonald rewrite record books Via Sistina (Fastnet Rock) became the oldest mare to land the Cox Plate (Gr 1, 2040m) when she joined an elite list of dual winners in a fittingly classic edition of the race in its last staging at Moonee Valley before its... Read More
Onesmoothoperator books his Melbourne Cup ticket
The Brian Ellison-trained Onesmoothoperator (Dialed In) punched his ticket for the Melbourne Cup (Gr 1, 3200m) at Flemington a week on Tuesday with an ultra impressive win under the lights in Friday’s Moonee Valley Gold Cup (Gr 2, 2500m). The seven-year-old was ruled out of the defence of his Geelong Cup (Gr 3, 2400m) on... Read More
Tulloch Lodge hoping Shangri La Boy can shine in Spring Champion
Gai Waterhouse is confident she can repeat a sibling trick 23 years on when she and Adrian Bott send favourite Shangri La Boy (Pierro) into Saturday’s Spring Champion Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m) at Randwick. In 2002, Waterhouse won the three-year-old feature with the younger sibling of a shorter-course star, when Redoute’s Choice’s (Danehill) little brother... Read More