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The Master’s mighty mare vies with Winx for top billing
It's been a big week with the late Bart Cummings again vying for top spot with the budding champion Winx.
It's been a big week with the late Bart Cummings again vying for top spot with the budding champion Winx.
Tommy Berry has been a thorn in English's side, beating her twice in group 1s, but he knows how scintillating her sprint can be from in the saddle and from chasing her.
Respect is the only word that can be used to describe the dynamic between Godolphin's trainer John O'Shea and Chris Waller ahead of a couple of heavyweight preliminaries at Randwick on Saturday.
Most people remember it as the Naturalism Stakes. Nowadays it might be best known as the "golden ticket" stakes
As the footy finals move into their second weeks thoughts turn towards the big one, and Brenton Avdulla will experience a similar feeling as he goes to Randwick on Saturday, knowing the grand finals for his chargers are a couple of weeks away.
French jockey Johan Victoire has been entrusted by Gai Waterhouse with her Metropolitan hope Dee I Cee in Friday's Newcastle Cup.
The world's best stallion, Galileo, has had his 2016 book released by Weatherbys. It consisted of 158 mares, of which 73 were group winners.
Peter and Paul Snowden are plotting a course towards the Coolmore Stud Stakes with the unbeaten Russian Revolution.
Trainer Chris Waller has mighty mare Winx in great shape as she chases an 11th consecutive win in the Colgate Optic White Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.
Hugh Bowman started the day by taking Winx for a spin, rode a winning double at Warwick Farm but ended up suspended for seven meetings which will see him miss Sydney's biggest day of the spring, the Epsom.
Two foreign raiders will definitely challenge hot favourite Winx for the wfa championship of Australasian racing, Moonee Valley's Cox Plate.
There's not much master trainer Lee Freedman does not know about preparing Caulfield and Melbourne Cup winners.
Order of St George, part-owned by Lloyd Williams, and the 2014 Melbourne Cup winner Protectionist head the weights for this year's Melbourne Cup, both having been set to carry 58 kilograms by RVL handicapper Greg Carpenter in this year's Cup.
Sydney's champion trainer Chris Waller is brimming with confidence that his champion mare Winx will be in top share for this weekend's George Main Stakes at Randwick, despite the fact that she missed a lead up run in the Chelmsford Stakes earlier in September.
Gunning trainer wins third Canberra Cup, confident it won't be the race's last run.
She may be Queen of the Turf, but that is no guarantee Michelle Payne can produce a fairytale every time she takes to the track.
Jamie Lovett might not even get to Randwick on Saturday to watch Japanese import Tosen Stardom take on Winx in the Australian Bloodstock silks because Friday could be "a bigger day".
James McDonald labelled Astern "a freak" after his Golden Rose win on Saturday and international rating outfit, Timeform, agrees putting it alongsides Frankel's only run at 1400m as a three-year-old.
Imagine you are an apprentice carpenter, hairdresser or a trainee in an office occupation and your employer suddenly goes out of business.
Leading Irish trainers Aidan O'Brien and Willie Mullins saw some of their potential Melbourne spring carnival contenders fail to advertise their prospects in major races in Ireland and England over the weekend.
The Darren Weir juggernaut continues to roll on, the champion trainer landing a one two in the Makybe Diva Stakes at Flemington to make it two out of two for the stable in Group One races run in Victoria so far this season
Flemington's famous "straight six" can be a trap for young horses, inexperienced youngsters used to running round a bend and taking a lead from a rail.
The Darren Weir juggernaut continues to roll on, the champion trainer landing a one two in the Group One Makybe Diva Stakes at Flemington to make it two out of two for the stable in Group One races run in Victoria so far this season
Chris Waller left Rosehill with a winning treble and a series of group 1 contenders on Saturday. He had supplied a winning double for Hong Kong jockey Joao Moreira, who answered his Australian critics politely and with a smile.
Astern is a horse that intimidates his rivals before the race then destroys them in it.
Plenty of chances in what could an historic final running of the Canberra Cup.
In a period of jockey baking, Astern will require a Jim Cassidy special from James McDonald in Saturday's Golden Rose at Rosehill Gardens.
Wagga trainer Todd Smart is hoping to produce the next Fell Swoop or Single Gaze in Canberra.
For David Morrow work comes first as rugby league reaches the pointy end of the season, so he will have to watch talented mare Savoureux on television in the Sheraco Stakes on Saturday.
Good horses teach trainers but in turn a trainer often has to teach a good horse how to show its best.
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