Class and courage
Class was apparent in the $500,000 Magic Millions Classic (1600m) and despite not being a black-type race, it was a treat to see La Crique (Vadamos) achieve her maiden win in Australia at her second attempt. Expectations of La Crique were high when she lined up in the 2022 Empire Rose Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m)... Read More
Smashing Time vying for Group 1 glory in JJ Atkins
Brave Smash’s talented juvenile gelding will bid to become the Yarraman Park-based sire’s first elite-level winner Trainer Rob Price has a growing confidence that bolt-from-the-blue gelding Smashing Time (Brave Smash) can provide his sire’s first Group 1 and launch his stable’s union with Australian Bloodstock in stellar style in Saturday’s JJ Atkins (Gr 1, 1600m).... Read More
Socks Nation delivers knockout blow in shock Queensland Oaks win
Daughter of Sioux Nation becomes first elite-level winner for former shuttler as she scores at 100-1 Coolmore’s one-season shuttler Sioux Nation (Scat Daddy) sired his first Group 1 winner worldwide and it came ten thousand miles from his Ireland home, at Eagle Farm in Brisbane, and it started at 100-1. She may even have been... Read More
La Crique impresses in Magic Millions National Classic
Outstanding New Zealand mare La Crique (Vadamos) continued making up for lost time as she took her earnings past $1 million with an imperious victory in Saturday’s $500,000 Magic Millions National Classic (1600m) at Eagle Farm. The five-year-old has taken a circuitous route to seven figures. She was hailed a superstar after winning six of... Read More
Churchill’s Imperialist rules
Coolmore shuttler Churchill (Galileo) brought up his fourth Australian stakes winner – and his fourth this season – when smart two-year-old Imperialist took out Saturday’s The Phoenix (Listed, 1500m) at Eagle Farm. And the Chris Waller-trained colt shortened markedly in the betting to provide his sire with a second Australian elite-level winner in next Saturday’s... Read More
Purton slots three-timer as Copartner Prance makes it five in a row
Zac Purton’s relentless push towards a seventh Hong Kong jockeys’ championship continued at Sha Tin on Saturday when he snared a treble highlighted by a fifth successive victory on Copartner Prance (Epaulette) in the Class 2 Lung Mun Road Handicap (1200m). Purton (114 wins) increased his lead in the 2023/24 championship over Karis Teetan to... Read More