Month: April 2020

VRC St Leger winner Sacramento (l) is a candidate for the South Australian Derby. The Group One South Australian Derby shapes as the next likely target for VRC St Leger winner Sacramento. The gelding’s nose victory over Saint Eustace in Saturday’s Listed 2800m race for three-year-olds at Flemington gave co-trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott their third-straight St Leger and Waterhouse her fifth in the past eight years. Two of the stable’s previous four St Leger winners progressed to the Group One South Australian Derby at their next starts, including…

Tamworth trainer Cody Morgan has had to watch Ligulate win his home town Cup from a hospital bed. Tamworth trainer Cody Morgan has had to celebrate his home town Cup win from his hospital bed after breaking his leg in two places. Morgan was injured in a trackwork fall on Saturday, a day before Ligulate flashed home to beat Zaunkonig in the $160,000 Cup (1400m). The trainer has had a rod and a plate inserted in his tibia and fibula respectively. Morgan won the 2019 Cup with Unbiased who this…

Two-year-old Away Game will take on older fillies and mares in the Robert Sangster Stakes. Away Game’s already memorable juvenile season could reach new heights if the bold plan to run her in the weight-for-age Group One Robert Sangster Stakes is successful. After Away Game won the Group Two Percy Sykes Stakes at Randwick on April 11, trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace revealed plans to pit the filly against older opposition in Saturday’s Group One Sangster (1200m). Eustace said Away Game had returned from Sydney to their Ballarat base…

Sacramento (left) and Saint Eustace have fought out a thrilling VRC St Leger at Flemington. Sacramento has survived a protest to give Gai Waterhouse a fifth VRC St Leger win in the past eight years at Flemington. The victory also has given the Waterhouse and Adrian Bott training partnership their third successive win in the 2800m Listed race for three-year-olds. Waterhouse started the streak with Hippopus (2013) and Order Of The Sun (2014) and since teaming with Bott in 2016 has been successful with Runaway (2018) and Transact last year.…

Jockey Tommy Berry has redeemed himself on Amangiri with a Group Three Hawkesbury Gold Cup victory. Tommy Berry is hoping he has done enough to square the ledger with the Hawkes family after lifting family horse Amangiri to victory in the Group Three Hawkesbury Gold Cup. The mare is raced by Jenny and Clare Hawkes, the wives of father and son co-trainers John and Michael, and Berry says he owed them for his narrow defeat on her in last year’s Adrian Knox Stakes. “It’s a family horse and I’m not…

Oakfield Missile (left) has snatched victory from the favourite True Detective at Rosehill. Damien Lane admits he was left deflated after Oakfield Missile finished fourth for the second-straight year in the recent $400,000 Provincial Championships Final at Randwick. But it was a different story for the Wyong trainer after Oakfield Missile wore down favourite True Detective to win The Gallipoli Benchmark 78 Handicap (1300m) at Rosehill on Saturday. Five-year-old Oakfield Missile won a Provincial Championship Qualifier at Newcastle in the first start of her current campaign before her fourth to…