By Jonny Turner Belle’s Boy took his turn in the limelight while he could when bolting in by six lengths at Wingatui yesterday for Eastern Southland trainer Bruce Wallace. The pacer finally lived up to the faith his trainer has had in him when powering up the rising Wingatui straight to win race 1. The win rounded out a perfect three days for Wallace after Leer scored an effortless debut win at Winton on Saturday. Under normal circumstances, Belle’s Boy might take top billing in the popularity stakes at Wallace’s…
Month: March 2021
Golden Slipper Day 2021 Postponed: Revised Sydney Autumn Carnival Dates
Dangerous track conditions and heavy rainfall have forced today’s Longines Golden Slipper Day 2021 meeting at Rosehill Gardens to be postponed and rescheduled for Saturday the 27th of March, 2021. Profiteer remains favourite in markets for the postponed 2021 Golden Slipper Stakes. Photo: Steve Hart. Over 25mm of rain fell on the Rosehill track overnight and with the deluge forecast to continue across the day, Racing NSW stewards and the Australian Turf Club have rescheduled the major race meeting. All subsequent major race dates over the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival…
Blue Diamond Winner Among 16 Golden Slipper Stakes 2021 Final Acceptors
Anthony & Sam Freedman’s returning Neds Blue Diamond Stakes champion Artorius is one of two late entries in Saturday’s Group 1 $3.5 million Golden Slipper Stakes (1200m) field at Rosehill Gardens. Artorius looks to complete the Blue Diamond – Golden Slipper double this weekend in Sydney. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos. The world’s richest race for two-year-old drew 16 final acceptors including Rocket Tiger and Artorius as the late entries at a cost of $150,000 to connections. Flying Artie colt Artorius is yet to race outside of Melbourne and hasn’t run…
Balancing act for two-year-olds in delayed Slipper
Profiteer after winning the #LovetheHorse at Flemington. (Natasha Morello/Racing Photos) Michael Kent Jr says it will be interesting to see how the week unfolds in Sydney after the big wet pushed back the Golden Slipper meeting by a week. The entire Golden Slipper meeting will be run this coming Saturday after the Rosehill track was deluged with rain last Friday night. Kent Jr prepares Slipper favourite Profiteer in partnership with Mick Price and said while it is not an ideal scenario, especially with two-year-olds, every other stable was in the…
Caspar Fownes and Joao Moreira lift the Hong Kong Derby with Sky Darci
Sky Darci (left) staves off Russian Emperor. An inspired Caspar Fownes’ training performance, crowned by a supreme Joao Moreira ride, has allowed Sky Darci to overcome serious stamina doubts while delivering dramatic Hong Kong Derby (2000m) success at Sha Tin on Sunday (21 March). The Darci Brahma gelding was plucked from New Zealand as a PPG (Privately Purchased Griffin), joining the Fownes stable as a raw, unraced gelding in 2019. Less than two years later, he is part of Hong Kong racing folklore. Eleven starts after debuting in Hong Kong…
Winter plans for another rising star
Mick Price and training Mick Kent Junior have another potential Group One horse waiting patiently at home. Ayrton (NZ) (Iffraaj), who in two runs over the summer lived up to his namesake in showing a need for speed, is back in work and likely headed to Brisbane for, potentially, a Stradbroke Handicap. “If he gets his rating up and he’s right time, right place, he’ll certainly be entered for those sort of races,” Price told the Moody On The Mic podcast. Ayrton, who like stablemate Profiteer is owned by Roll…
Eddie & Mary Lieshout: Against all odds
Greyhound racing fans and industry insiders, particularly around the Gippsland region, will be more than familiar with the surname – Lieshout. For several decades, Eddie and Mary Lieshout’s Parumba Stud was at the forefront of greyhound breeding in Australia. And, with good reason, given the couple’s vanguard approach, and quest to broaden Australian bloodlines, frequently importing greyhounds from the United States. The Lieshout’s picturesque property in Drouin, west Gippsland, is where their prominent greyhound sire Shining Chariot (Chariot Supreme x Shining Light) stood, commencing his stud life in the late…
Biggest movers from Launching Pad heats
There’s a certain charm about a three week series. Most group races are run over two weeks where there is no margin for error – you win your heat or you go home. But in a three week series like the Launching Pad, one of the few three week series remaining on the group race calendar, the first four runners in each heat progress to week two. So while five of the eight favourites in the heats were beaten, eight of the 10 leading chances won through to the semi-finals.…
RUN HE WILL
Matt Lanigan’s exciting sprinter Run And Carry has won 10 of his 18 starts to date, and The Watchdog believes he has the potential to break the magical 25 seconds at Shepparton tonight. The Watchdog’s Daily Mail is in great form at present, returning $15 for $10 invested over the past five days. Be sure to check out his best ‘WIN’ and ‘PLACE’ bets for today, with two greyhounds at opposing ends of their careers in the spotlight. Meanwhile, The Watchdog was in great tipping form in Saturday night’s Shepparton…
Cheaperthandivorce to take a break
The Roger James and Robert Wellwood-trained Cheaperthandivorce (NZ) (Savabeel) will head to the spelling paddock and won’t be seen again this season despite finding the line well for fourth in the Gr.1 New Zealand Oaks (2400m) last Saturday. “She is a little frail filly that is still getting there. She is still learning how to race and was checking her way out of gaps rather than taking them,” James said. “It is just a matter of maturity and she is going out until next season. “She was going to run…