Month: January 2020

Trainer Tony Gollan will be strongly represented in Magic Millions races at the Gold Coast. Vega One will miss the southern autumn carnivals no matter how well he runs in the $1 million Magic Millions Cup at the Gold Coast. Trainer Tony Gollan has already inked in the $1.5 million Group One Stradbroke Handicap on June as Vega One’s main target in 2020. “He has already beaten the ballot for the Stradbroke with his last-start win in The Gateway,” Gollan said. “It means he can have a good spell after…

Cradle Mountain (blue/white) resumes at Randwick in a tricky race in which tactis will play a part, Clare Cunningham is preparing to nut out a game plan for Cradle Mountain ahead of his Randwick return in a race where tactics appear vital. A field of seven will line up in the Bisley Workwear Handicap (1200m) on Saturday with up to five of the runners, including Cradle Mountain, likely to be seeking forward positions. Cunningham admits she is concerned where Cradle Mountain will settle from his awkward draw of five and…

Group One winner Microphone (left) has tuned up for his return with a win in a Flemington jump-put. Group One-winning colt Microphone has won a jump-out at Flemington as he prepares for his return to the races. In a heat featuring Caulfield Guineas winner Super Seth on Friday morning, Microphone led most of the way over 800m to beat Highland Beat with Super Seth third. Microphone was second in last year’s Golden Slipper before winning the Group One Sires’ Produce Stakes. He was third in the Roman Consul Stakes in…

Dubbo trainer Kody Nestor is bringing Toulon Brook to Randwick to begin his Country C’ship quest. Progressive Dubbo gelding Toulon Brook will take the first step in a campaign geared towards the Country Championship when he resumes in the Highway Handicap at Randwick. The lightly raced son of Hinchinbrook has shown promise winning three of his seven starts, rounding out his most recent preparation with a Highway Handicap victory on the Kensington track in August. Trainer Kody Nestor is hopeful Toulon Brook can earn his way into the Country Championships…

Invincibella is one of two Chris Waller runners trying to win the same Magic Millions race 3 times. Champion trainer Chris Waller does not have a runner in either of the main races but still has a chance to write Magic Millions history at the Good Coast. No horse has won the same Magic Millions race three years in a row but Waller will have Invincibella in the Magic Millions Fillies and Mares (1300m) and Tumultuous in the Magic Millions Trophy (2400m) trying to achieve the feat. Invincibella showed she…

Trainer Gerald Ryan has three chances at Randwick including Omar who is returning from surgery. Gerald Ryan has been active at the opening days of the Magic Millions sale at the Gold Coast but his attention is turning to Sydney where he has three runners at Randwick. At what has been a buoyant sale, Ryan bought a Snitzel colt out of two-time winner Asinara for $200,000 and secured another Snitzel youngster out of El Laoob, for the same price. He has also been confirmed as the trainer for a $1.1…

If Chapter And Verse can defend the MM QTIS at the Gold Coast he will take his earnings past $1m. Defending champion Chapter and Verse needs only a touch of luck in the $1 million Magic Millions QTIS at the Gold Coast to become trainer Desleigh Forster’s first million dollar earner. Chapter and Verse showed he was on course for back-to- back Millions QTIS wins after he won the Group Three George Moore Stakes and ran third in the Listed Lough Neagh Stakes in the lead-up to Saturday’s 1300m-race. Forster…

Blazejowski will be back trying to pick up where he left off at Flemington after a long break. Blazejowski was able to rise through the grades during his previous racing campaign and trainer Greg Eurell believes the signs are positive he can take another step up this time around. The five-year-old gelding runs for the first time since June in Saturday’s Furlong Bar Handicap (1100m) at Flemington, with Eurell bullish about how the gelding has been going in the lead-up. “It will be very interesting to see what he does…

Diamond Thunder will wear blinkers when he attempts to upset Alligator Blood in the MM Guineas. Sydney three-year-old Diamond Thunder will wear blinkers for the first time in his attempt to cause an upset over Alligator Blood at the Gold Coast. Diamond Thunder is one of the few runners given any chance against short-priced favourite Alligator Blood in Saturday’s $2 million Magic Millions Guineas (1400m). Trained by Mark Newnham, Diamond Thunder won the Magic Millions 3 and 4YO at Wyong on December 12 and was then fourth to Alligator Blood…