Month: January 2022

Lindsay Park will be hoping to consolidate their position in the top three on the Victorian Metropolitan Trainers’ Premiership with a strong hand at Caulfield on Wednesday. Since taking over just prior to the commencement of the current season, Ben and JD Hayes sit third on both the Victorian Country and Metropolitan titles in their first season as a training partnership with father David in Hong Kong and cousin Tom Dabernig now training at Warrnambool. The Listed John Dillon Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield will see the trainers with two and…

It might have only been in existence for three years, but already the All-Star Mile has become the race where dreams have come true, ranging from the rags to riches tale of Mystic Journey (Needs Further) in the inaugural edition of the race, to the life changing experiences for the successful owner ambassadors, like single mother Tegan Abercrombie in 2020. This year’s All-Star Mile could be a significant chapter in the dream that Darcy Mangan and his father Tim are living with their exciting thoroughbred, I’m Thunderstruck (NZ) (Shocking). Racing…

First time racegoers to Ellerslie on Saturday evening could have been forgiven if they thought they had mistakenly turned up to a football match, such was the noise and atmosphere generated by a large group of racing enthusiasts in attendance under the unique moniker of Boys Get Paid. Karaka Million night at Ellerslie has become synonymous with the involvement of Boys Get Paid (BGP), a group that started off in 2011 as a bunch of mates who liked to back a winner and have plenty of fun talking about it…

After a luckless run for second in the Dunstan Feeds Stayers Championship Final (2400m) at Ellerslie on New Year’s day, promising mare Rapid Falls (NZ) (Sacred Falls) returned to the scene of the crime on Saturday to exact a measure of revenge in the Collinson Forex Karaka Cup (2200m). Prepared by Cambridge trainer Tony Pike, the five-year-old daughter of Sacred Falls had been held up for racing room on New Year’s day before storming home to get within half a length of eventual winner Dionysus (NZ) (Ocean Park). This time…

A purchase made while on a stint working overseas over twenty-five years ago paid off in spades for Windsor Park Stud’s Rodney Schick, when stylish colt Dynastic (NZ) (Almanzor) took out the $1 million Doubletree by Hilton Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) at Ellerslie on Saturday night. The Jamie Richards-trained son of Cambridge Stud stallion Almanzor is out of Volksraad mare Meir, a grand-daughter of Irish mare Guinevere, who Schick purchased for 32,000 guineas out of a Tattersalls sale while working in England in the mid 1990s. Bought for long-time clients…

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