Month: May 2020

Georgina Cartwright ended a profitable Adelaide stint with a winning double at Morphettville. Apprentice Georgina Cartwright is looking forward to her return to Victoria where she expects to increase her workload. Cartwright has spent the past six weeks riding in Adelaide, basing herself in the South Australian capital for the May carnival. The coronavirus pandemic and associated restrictions forced Cartwright to spend two weeks in quarantine in South Australia. Cartwright was the first of six Victorian jockeys to cross the border, heading over in early April and she will isolate…

Hanseatic, one of the stars of the juvenile season, will be kept to sprint races in the spring. Sprint races will be the likely targets for impressive colt Hanseatic as a spring three-year-old. The Anthony Freedman-trained, Godolphin-owned two-year-old made a big impression during his juvenile season when winning the Merson Cooper Stakes, Blue Diamond Preview and Blue Diamond Prelude in his first three starts. But a Group One win eluded him. Hanseatic finished second to Tagaloa when a short-priced favourite in the Group One Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield…

Gai Waterhouse and training partner Adrian Bott will have a small but select Queensland winter team. Opportunities to parlay autumn carnival success into the Brisbane winter will be limited for Tulloch Lodge this year but they still plan to have a presence, led by dual Guineas winner Dawn Passage. Training partners Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott enjoyed a Sydney carnival to remember, the highlight their Golden Slipper win with exciting colt Farnan. But with cuts to the traditional Queensland schedule and logistical challenges with interstate travel due to the coronavirus,…

Vega Magic has ended a long absence from the winners’ list with a Perth weight-for-age success. Vega Magic, rated among the upper echelon of Australia’s best sprinters in his prime, has emerged from racing’s wilderness to win for the first time in almost two years. A rising eight-year-old and back under the watchful eye of his first trainer Sean Casey, Vega Magic rallied to recapture some former glory in the Roma Stakes at Ascot on Saturday. It was the two-time Group One winner’s first success in 658 days, bringing with…

Promising two-year-old Thunder Mania is heading the right way for a start in the JJ Atkins. Co-trainers John Symons and Sheila Laxon are keeping a close eye on the ballot order as they plot the Group One JJ Atkins course for their smart two-year-old Thunder Mania. Thunder Mania showed he was up to top company when he dispatched several other JJ Atkins hopefuls at the Sunshine Coast on Friday night. Thunder Mania finished too strongly to win over 1400m in a major lead-up to the JJ Atkins at Eagle Farm…

Jockey Robbie Fradd says Ken Russell Memorial Classic winner Wisdom Of Water is a serious colt. International jockey Robbie Fradd has given his stamp of approval on new Group One JJ Atkins favourite Wisdom Of Water. Bookmakers shortened Wisdom Of Water from $8 to $4 after he won the Ken Russell Memorial Classic (1200m) at the Gold Coast on Saturday. Wisdom of Water was the major mover in JJ Atkins markets with his main rivals in Isotope and Rothfire to run in the Group Two Champagne Classic at Eagle Farm…

Godolphin’s Group 1 winning sprinter Trekking is one of the early market movers for the Group 1 $400,000 The Furphy Goodwood (1200m) at Morphettville today. Trekking, above, is one of the top chances in the 2020 The Goodwood at Morphettville. Photo by Ultimate Racing Photos. Trekking was quoted at $9 with Ladbrokes.com.au when the final field for the Goodwood was released on Tuesday and on race morning the James Cummings trained five year old is sharing the second line of betting at $7.50 with the topweight Santa Ana Lane. The…