Month: May 2020

Trainer John Sargent is hoping Elizabeel can close out her season with a city win at Randwick. Trainer John Sargent is convinced Elizabeel has a bright future and hopes the filly can secure a city win as a two-year-old before turning attention to her three-year-old season. Elizabeel is set for her third start in Saturday’s Central Coast Mariners 2YO Handicap (1200m) at Randwick having finished fifth on debut in a race at Warwick Farm before having excuses when second to Bellevue Star in a 1200m maiden at Canterbury against her…

Stuart Kendrick has trained his 900th winner with Superare successful at the Sunshine Coast. Caloundra trainer Stuart Kendrick wondered where the years had gone after he celebrated winning his 900th race. It was apt Kendrick reached the milestone at the Sunshine Coast because he has been the premier trainer at the beachside track for the past seven seasons. His gelding Superare ($5) scored an impressive win in the Butler McDermott Lawyers Handicap at his second race start. Kendrick started his career in Mackay as a 19-year-old when he took out…

Order Of Command continues to build on his stakes record, winning the Listed Wangoom Handicap. Order Of Command has added another stakes victory to his record with a fighting win in the Wangoom Handicap at Warrnambool. The Danny O’Brien-trained sprinter, under the urgings of Damien Oliver, fought back after being headed in the straight to claim Wednesday’s 1200m Listed race. To add merit to the victory, while allowing for a rise in the minimum weight due to coronavirus, Order Of Command lumped 62kg to victory, 3.5kg more than Storm Lover…

Too Close the Sun has won the Warrnambool Cup, giving trainer Lindsey Smith a treble at the meeting. Lindsey Smith has spent his first Warrnambool carnival in isolation having recently returned from Perth. But it has not stopped the trainer him being an influential figure at the famous meeting. The traditional three-day carnival was cut to two this year because of coronavirus with an all-jumps program on Tuesday followed by Wednesday’s all-Flat meeting. Smith did not have a runner on Tuesday but produced a winning treble on day two, including…

In-form Greyworm is an early favourite to win the Listed Takeover Target Stakes at Randwick. Five-year-old gelding Greyworm is the favourite to claim successive black-type victories at Randwick when he runs in the Listed Takeover Target Stakes. Saturday’s Takeover Target (1200m) is one of two stakes races on the Randwick program with Greyworm $3 favourite on Wednesday in a field of 10. The Hawkes Racing-trained Greyworm was a dominant 1-1/4-length winner of the Group Three Hall Mark Stakes over the same course and distance last start on April 18, defeating…

The Black Leopard winning at Sandown. Photo: Pat Scala/Racing Photos Group One winning trainer Henry Dwyer has fond memories of the Warrnambool Carnival and he is hoping to conjure some more when Kiwi import The Black Leopard (NZ) (Ekraar) contests one of Wednesday’s features, the Listed Warrnambool Cup (2350m). A young Dwyer would often follow his late father Mick on the annual pilgrimage to the ‘bool and watched as his father enjoyed one of his most satisfying moments just weeks before he died. “As kids we grew up going down…