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20 for Smart Missile
Yao Dash (4 g Smart Missile x Rahy Storm by Rahy) skipped away with the Doncaster Prelude (Gr 3, 1500m) to secure his place in the Doncaster Mile (Gr 1, 1600m) as he became the 20th individual stakes winner for his sire Smart Missile (Fastnet Rock). The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott- trained four-year-old found […]
[ Read More ]20th Stakes-Winner for Smart Missile
Newhaven Park bred and sold Yao Dash became the 20th stakes-winner for his Twin Hills based sire Smart Missile when scoring a resounding victory in the Group III ATC Doncaster Prelude (1500m) at Rosehill on Saturday. Yao Dash wins the G3 Doncaster Prelude – image Steve Hart. Prepared by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, Yao […]
[ Read More ]Star Trio for Twin Hills Inglis Easter Debut
Twin Hills Stud have made a great impression at Australian yearling sales in the past couple of years and Olly Tait believes the three yearlings selected for the farm’s first foray into the elite Inglis Easter market will continue the trend. “We have two really good colts by Shalaa and Lonhro that we have bred […]
[ Read More ]Debut win for No Nay Never filly at Ballarat
Two graduates from the breeze-up sales at Sydney and Karaka in 2020 have made quick progression to the winner’s stall with victories in the two 2-year-old races at Ballarat on Sunday. The Patrick Payne-trained filly Douceur (No Nay Never {USA}) finished powerfully to win the Bartlett Blinds 2YO Mdn Plate over 1110 metres on the Heavy 8 […]
[ Read More ]Chipping Norton clash of star mares looms as something special
Since being elevated to Group 1 status in 1986, the G1 Chipping Norton S. has been won by some of Australia’s greatest horses, the likes of Super Impose, Octagonal (NZ), Lonhro and of course the two horses which won the race on four occasions, Tie The Knot (Nassipour {USA}) and Winx (Street Cry {Ire}). On […]
[ Read More ]Colette – What a Little Star She Is
The signs were positive for the high-class Hallowed Crown mare Colette in Saturday’s $250,000 Group II Yulong Apollo Stakes when the skies opened in Sydney on Saturday morning. Colette in a breeze (Steve Hart) Still, few punters could look past the 6-time Group 1 winner Verry Elleeegant who was sent off the $2.50 favourite. But […]
[ Read More ]Colette on track to be Cummings’s autumn Queen
Colette had trainer James Cummings rethinking his autumn carnival plans for the talented mare after a brilliant return to racing at Royal Randwick on Saturday. “I was thinking of aiming her at the Sydney Cup but I don’t know if we will go that way now,’’ Cummings said. “She has just been going so well […]
[ Read More ]One To Watch – Randwick
Can the Hallowed Crown filly Flexible do a Colette and win the ATC Australian Oaks? You wouldn’t bet against it the way she powered to the line over 1400m at Randwick-Kensington on Wednesday. Settled back in last place by Rachel King, the James Cummings-trained filly came with a barnstorming finish down the outside rail to […]
[ Read More ]Denman gets his Group 1 feather
The long-awaited and deserved maiden Group 1 success for Hot King Prawn in the G1 Centenary Sprint Cup at Sha Tin on Sunday also provided a breakthrough for his sire Denman, who has been rewarded for his own consistency with elevated status as a Group 1-producing stallion. Denman’s progeny had come close on several occasions […]
[ Read More ]Hot King Prawn lands elusive G1 with Centenary Sprint Cup triumph
Hot King Prawn (Denman) washed away months of frustration and doubt with an emphatic performance to claim his first Group 1 title with victory in yesterday’s Centenary Sprint Cup (Gr 1, 1200m). Placed three times at elite level, the enigmatic grey delivered in copybook style for Joao Moreira to provide trainer John Sjze with his […]
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