Private trainer Goldman keen to honour late owner as he ponders his own racing future
Sprinter Irish Songs to carry Cardy’s maroon and white silks down the Flemington straight Of all the races being run around Australia on Saturday, a Benchmark 84 (1200m) at Flemington is not the first that will spring to mind, not when one of the best runnings of the Black Caviar Lightning Stakes (Gr 1, 1000m)... Read More
Golden Sixty seeks to atone for shock defeat
The eyes of the racing world will again be on Golden Sixty (Medaglia D’Oro) and Vincent Ho in Sunday’s Hong Kong Gold Cup (Gr 1, 2000m) at Sha Tin. The star duo will attempt to make it back-to-back wins in the feature, and atone for his shock defeat by Waikuku (Harbour Watch) in last month’s... Read More
Vancouver to make Victoria home as Hirsch buys Golden Slipper winner
Group 1-winning son of Medaglia d’Oro to stand at Woodside Park Stud in 2022 Golden Slipper (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Vancouver (Medaglia d’Oro) will relocate to Victoria next season. Eddie Hirsch has struck a deal with Coolmore to buy the champion racehorse, an unbeaten juvenile and sire of eight stakes winners from three crops of... Read More
First for Churchill
New winners Churchill (pictured above) – Coolmore’s 2,000 Guineas (Gr 1, 1m)-winning shuttler Churchill (Galileo) produced his first southern hemisphere-bred winner when the Chris Waller-trained Robusto (2 c ex She’s Clean by Redoute’s Choice) cantered away with the Two-Year-Old Plate (1300m) at Warwick Farm om Tuesday. Ridden by James McDonald in the cerise silks of... Read More
‘When life gives you lemons, make lemonade’
‘When life gives you lemons, make lemonade,’ is the old adage which encourages a positive outlook on a potentially negative situation. That scenario may be in play regarding New Zealand Bloodstock’s annual sales series which were pushed back to the second week of March due to government restrictions over the coronavirus pandemic. Immediately after NZB’s... Read More
Sandhu staying out of any Lofty stallion negotiations for his unbeaten Snitzel colt
Cranbourne trainer focused on Blue Diamond, leaves ‘financial landscape’ to Lofitis Studmasters are circling unbeaten juvenile Lofty Strike (Snitzel), a colt with a rich two-year-old pedigree, but if a stallion deal is reached before next week’s Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) the man overseeing the horse’s preparation, Julius Sandhu, is unlikely to know about... Read More