Schwarz’s time to aim up in Missile
Rosemont Alliance colt to step out in Group 2 as Group 1 precursor Twenty-four hours after parading Rosemont Alliance’s first colts syndicate stallion Doull (Snitzel) at Geelong races on Friday, studmaster Anthony Mithen will be transfixed to the Missile Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) watching another stallion prospect in the making. The Randwick Group 2 will... Read More
Hadouken takes to the Top End in style with Darwin Cup victory
Dirt track revelation Hadouken (6 g Real Impact ex Any Other Day, by Redoute’s Choice) kept his perfect Northern Territory record intact by claiming the local industry’s biggest race, the Darwin Cup (2050m), on Monday. The well-travelled gelding, who started his career in Sydney with now retired Warwick Farm-based trainer Gabrielle Ellis before joining the... Read More
Coolmore awaiting a spring Storm in comeback Kensington trial
Fellow three-year-old Switzerland to have his first new season hit-out at Rosehill The first tentative steps in Coolmore’s hopes of having an Australian-bred Group 1-winning colt in its possession for the fourth time in five years will be taken at Sydney barrier trials this week. Three-time stakes winner and Golden Slipper (Gr 1, 1200m) placed... Read More
Detroit City on path to spring glory
Leading Victorian stallion Toronado (High Chaparral) may have an early spring Classics contender after Detroit City stepped up to city class to make it two wins in two starts on Saturday at Flemington. Following an impressive four-length victory on a Heavy 10 surface in a 1200-metre Wodonga two-year-old handicap, the gelding handled metro level with... Read More
I Am Famous continues progressive ways
Two million dollar yearling I Am Famous (I Am Invincible) made it a day for emerging grey mares in showing she was ready to serve justice to her price tag – and a renowned relative – by winning at Rosehill on Saturday. On the same day that Right To Party took Flemington’s Aurie’s Star Handicap... Read More
Right To Party has straight track Aura
Pinecliff’s Zoustar mare brings up hat-trick in Flemington Group 3 Winter revelation Right To Party (Zoustar) gave her surging sire the earliest honours of the new season by sealing a Flemington straight track hat-trick in Saturday’s Aurie’s Star Handicap (Gr 3, 1200m). Fresh from matching his key rival I Am Invincible’s (Invincible Spirit) Australian winners... Read More