Month: April 2020

White Moss will be given another chance to snare an autumn Group One win in the All Aged Stakes. The way White Moss has come through her Sapphire Stakes victory has paved the way for trainer Jason Coyle to run the mare for the third consecutive week in the All Aged Stakes. White Moss won the Group Two Sapphire (1200m) at Randwick last Saturday for the second-straight year having finished unplaced a week earlier as a $151 outsider in the Group One TJ Smith Stakes, won by Nature Strip. Coyle…

Trainer John Sargent will send out Get The Idea against ATC Australian Derby winner Quick Thinker. Australian Derby plans for Get The Idea had to be aborted, so trainer John Sargent has redirected the lightly raced stayer towards the Group Three Frank Packer Plate. Get The Idea was an acceptor for the Group One Australian Derby (2400m) at Randwick on April 4 but was scratched by Sargent the day before the Classic after the gelding had got cast in his box. The three-year-old recovered from the minor setback and finished…

Victorian-trained Rubisaki is an odds-on favourite to make it six wins on end at Randwick. Rubisaki is poised to start a short-priced favourite in the JHB Carr Stakes at Randwick when she bids to extend an unbeaten sequence this season. In what is expected to be the Patrick Payne-trained filly’s final start of her campaign, three-year-old Rubisaki is striving to make it six straight wins during the 2019/20 season in Saturday’s Group Three 1400m race against her own age and sex. “She’s definitely not at the end of her campaign…

Star sprinter, $16million earner Redzel, has been retired after a career including two Everest wins. Australia’s highest earning sprinter, dual Everest winner Redzel, has been retired. Michael and Chris Ward’s Triple Crown Syndications which managed the seven-year-old’s large ownership group, announced on Thursday the gelding had run his last race. Redzel retires with two Group One wins as well as his victories in the first two editions of The Everest and prize money of more than $16.4 million. In all he had 39 starts, winning 15 and being placed in…

Veteran Brocson appeals as one of the better chances in the Millers Swim School Handicap at Doomben. It is little wonder Deagon trainer Michael Lakey says he would love a stable full of horses as tough as Brocson. The nine-year-old gelding is getting better with age and will line up for his 79th start in the Millers Swim School Handicap (2200m) at Doomben on Saturday. Brocson has won eight races and been placed 19 times but it is in recent times he has come to the fore. A son of…

Prince Of Arran is among a host of northern hemisphere horses unlikely to race during the spring. The chances of having international runners at this year’s Melbourne’s spring carnival are unlikely, but Racing Victoria says it hasn’t given up trying to attract overseas talent. Racing Victoria’s international scout Paul Bloodworth has been keeping in contact with overseas trainers, but as the COVID-19 situation sits he doubts there will be any internationally trained horses in 2020. “The interesting thing is the horses could potentially fly, but IRT, our shipper, would not…

Dreamforce will try to parlay his George Ryder Stakes win into more Group One success at Randwick. A month after breaking through for his first Group One win, a refreshed Dreamforce will be out to add another against a star-studded field in the All Aged Stakes at Randwick. The John Thompson-trained multiple stakes winner had placed at Group One level three times in the previous year before upstaging The Bostonian and Te Akau Shark to win the George Ryder Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill on March 21. “I thought it was…

Visiting English jockey Tom Marquand has been fined $2000 for breaching raceday COVID-19 protocols. Jockey-of-the-moment Tom Marquand has been fined for a breach of the protocols surrounding coronavirus. The visiting English rider won his second Sydney Group One race on Addeybb in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick on Saturday. With racing continuing in the absence of spectators, Marquand celebrated by embracing Addeybb’s groom Safid Alam when he returned to the enclosure. Racing NSW stewards hit Marquand with a $2000 fine and penalised Alam $500 after both pleaded guilty to…