Month: January 2020

Freedman hopes filly is the winning Ticket

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Co-trainer Michael Freedman has high hopes for two-year-old Ticket To Ride at Randwick. Gimcrack Stakes placegetter Ticket To Ride is showing all the right signs on the training track but co-trainer Michael Freedman knows her ultimate test will come on race day. The filly resumes in Saturday’s $2 million Inglis Millennium in 14 Days Handicap (1000m) at Randwick, her first start since closing for third behind Every Rose in the Gimcrack. Freedman says Ticket To Ride has enjoyed a faultless build-up but her looming clash with blue blooded colts Mount…

Bricks And Mortar in Eclipse Awards sweep

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Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Bricks And Mortar (l) has been honoured as the best in the United States. Bricks And Mortar has had a perfect year, and the Eclipse Award voters have given his team an historic sweep of top honours. After going six for six – all on the turf – at six tracks last year, Bricks And Mortar and his connections swept all eligible categories on Thursday (Friday AEDT). He was the 2019 Horse of the Year with his rider Irad Ortiz jr the jockey Eclipse Award winner…

Southern raiders set to plunder more northern spoils

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Kiwi Ida winning the Group 2 Manawatu Challenge Stakes (1400m). Photo: Race Images John and Karen Parsons are becoming accustomed to plundering northern spoils of late and the Balcairn trainers will attempt to do the same at Ellerslie on Saturday. The Canterbury conditioners won the Group 3 Trentham Stakes (2100m) with Camino Rocoso a fortnight ago and the Group 2 Manawatu Challenge Stakes (1400m) with Kiwi Ida last month and will target the Group 2 Westbury Classic (1400m) with the latter this weekend. Karen Parsons has been delighted with the…

Fall mars Australia Stakes at The Valley

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Scales Of Justice has won the Group 2 Australia Stakes at The Valley marred by the fatal fall of Manuel. Dual Group One winner Scales Of Justice has made a winning return in the Group Two Australia Stakes at The Valley in a race marred by a fatal fall in the home straight. Last year’s Group One C F Orr Stakes winner Manuel, with Barend Vorster aboard, came down in Friday night’s 1200m weight-for-age race. Manuel had to be euthanised while Vorster was conscious and taken to Royal Melbourne Hospital…

Special arrangement for Chinese New Year Raceday on 27 January 2020

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Chinese New Year Raceday to go ahead The Hong Kong Jockey Club has been closely following the development of the novel coronavirus. We are also well aware of public concerns over the health risks associated with crowds and the potential impact on the upcoming Chinese New Year Raceday scheduled for 27 January 2020. With this in mind, the Club has carefully reviewed arrangements for Chinese New Year Raceday, taking account of community views as well as the interests of customers and employees. We are particularly aware that Chinese New Year…

Karaka First Crop Sire – Wrote

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Highview Stud stallion Wrote will be represented by his first crop of yearlings at Karaka next month. The Irish-bred Wrote won three of his nine starts for Aidan O’Brien including the Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (1609m). The only Group One-winning two-year-old son of High Chaparral was also placed at Group Two level in the Royal Lodge Stakes (1609m), the UAE Derby (1900m) at Meydan and in the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial (2012m) at Leopardstown in Ireland. BOOK 1 Yearlings 624 A53 Wrote (IRE) – Glitter Woman (AUS), Bay Colt Highview BOOK 2 Yearlings 767 A47…

Karaka First Crop Sire – Prince Of Brooklyn

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Jason Coutts and Charlotte Young made their first foray into the stallion business in 2017 when they began standing Prince of Brooklyn at their Otago property for a fee of $3,000+gst, and he will be represented by his first crop of yearlings at Karaka later this month. He is out of the Zabeel mare Tristabeel, whose seven foals all have been winners, including Princess Of Queens, a Group Three winner for Mick Price, and Duke of Brunswick, the stakes-placed winner of seven races. Unbeaten at two, Prince of Brooklyn won…

Karaka First Crop Sire – Rageese

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Rageese joined Vanbrugh and Turn Me Loose as new comers to Windsor Park Stud for the 2017 breeding season, and his first yearlings will be offered at Karaka next month. Owned in partnership with Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum the imposing son of Street Cry is a direct descendant of champion race mare Emancipation and is closely related to Group One winners Virage De Fortune and Stratum Star. He showed his quality early on as a two-year-old when runner-up in the Gr.1 Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) at Randwick behind…

Tornado heads west for Miata

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Tornado Tears will return to centre stage at Cannington on Saturday night as odds-on favourite in the opening heat of the Group 3 Miata (715m), named in honour of another champion stayer of the last decade. Tornado Tears is the $1.50 favourite with TAB from box five in the first of two heats of the Miata, with one of his main dangers former Group 1-winning kennelmate Barcali at $4.40. Champion trainer Robert Britton has won the past two editions of the Group 1 Bold Trease, held on Melbourne Cup night…

Simon Told Helen scratched from National Derby

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Simon Told Helen has been scratched from the Group 1 National Derby at Wentworth Park on Friday night. The David Burnett trained chaser was the $2.10 favourite with TAB in front of fellow Victorian Hard Style Rico. “Sometime during the last week, Simon Told Helen was bitten by a spider on his right back leg,” trainer David Burnett said. “The wound is healing very well and he is feeling terrific but the owners and myself wish to allow him plenty of time to recover to 100 percent.”