Gray’s Kranji days are over as Kiwi walks out on Singapore
Last of the ‘originals’ to return to New Zealand after 24 years training in Asia Accomplished trainer Stephen Gray has announced he will quit Singaporean racing imminently after walking out of a meeting with government officials last month feeling dismayed. His Singapore training peers, which included fellow Kiwi expatriate Donna Logan, also left with a... Read More
Shades of 1983
Same venue but a different race, Saturday’s Roy Higgins Quality (Gr 3, 2600m) brought to mind a longer race which is run on the first Tuesday of November. Replay the last 100 metres of the 1983 Melbourne Cup (Gr 1, 3200m) and there is Kiwi (Blarney Kiss), sprinting as if he had just joined in,... Read More
Group 1 winner Belclare to be offered at Magic Millions
Fresh from her historic second win in Saturday’s New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m), Belclare (Per Incanto) will be offered at the upcoming Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale at the Gold Coast. The stable star for premiership-winning trainer Lisa Latta, Belclare will go under the hammer as an exciting racing and breeding prospect... Read More
I Am Invincible just that in 2023-24
Champion sire closing in on breaking Australian prize-money record Australia’s twice reigning champion stallion I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit) could break the all-time general sires’ prize-money record as soon as this weekend – with almost four months of the racing season still to go. And if the record of $29,243,613, set in 2017-2018 by four-time... Read More
Flaming Rabbit bounces back with front-running demolition
Lyle Hewitson has always been a superb judge of pace and he produced a brilliant front-running ride aboard Flaming Rabbit (Time Test) to win the Class 2 United Alumni Handicap (1600m) at Sha Tin on Sunday. Outwitting his six rivals aboard the five-year-old in a time of 1m 35.15s (25.61, 23.88, 22.78, 22.88), Hewitson netted... Read More
Orchestral on song as she lands Vinery
NZ Derby winner draws comparisons to Anamoe after Rosehill success on Australian debut James McDonald compared Orchestral (Savabeel) to the champion Anamoe (Street Boss) after New Zealand’s latest female superstar was crowned the trans-Tasman queen of racing on taking the Vinery Stud Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m) in her Australian debut on Saturday. She was given... Read More