Fownes joins elite club with 1,200th Hong Kong winner as double moves him level at top
Caspar Fownes became only the fourth trainer in Hong Kong racing history to reach 1,200 wins at Sha Tin on Saturday, a milestone achieved as he landed a double to move level at the top of the 2025/26 trainers’ championship. On the day Fownes joined an elite group of trainers to pass the 1,200 mark,... Read More
Breathtaking Tentyris storms home to strike in Lightning
Tentyris (Street Boss) stamped himself as the most exciting sprinter in Australia and took a large step towards living up to Anthony Freedman’s huge assessment of him with a breathtaking win in Saturday’s Black Caviar Lightning Stakes (Gr 1, 1000m) at Flemington. After the colt stormed to victory in last November’s Coolmore Stud Stakes (Gr... Read More
Autumn Glow stretches unbeaten run to nine
On the same day that the Flemington Group 1 named after Black Caviar was run, Autumn Glow (The Autumn Sun) showed herself to have the makings of another unbeaten superstar with an effortless first-up win at Randwick in the Apollo Stakes (Gr 2, 1400m). The Inglis Easter sale topper of 2023, bought by Arrowfield’s John... Read More
Ciaron’s Star shines in Pierro Plate
Ciaron’s Star (I Am Invincible) and Ciaron Maher go together like a rhyming couplet, and the presumably sizeable space the expensive filly occupies in her trainer’s heart grew only larger at Randwick on Saturday. Stepping out for her second start after a third over 1000 metres at the same course on January 24, Ciaron’s Star... Read More
Hard Kick lives up to his name in Talindert win
Hard Kick (All Too Hard) surged up the betting for the autumn’s two-year-old features and brought a welcome tonic for Lindsay Park with an impressive victory in Saturday’s Talindert Stakes (Listed, 1100m) at Flemington. The son of Vinery’s ultra consistent sire All Too Hard (Casino Prince) went in as a well supported $3 second favourite... Read More
Tulloch Lodge throw trio of Slipper hopefuls into Randwick’s Pierro Plate
Celebrated two-year-old trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott have a three-horse squadron taking their next steps towards the Golden Slipper (Gr 1, 1200m) in another Randwick two-year-old event dominated by fillies on Saturday. The Pierro Plate (1100m) somehow in this day and age manages to not have black type status but is invariably a strong... Read More