Month: August 2023

Aegon’s (NZ) (Sacred Falls) Moonee Valley credentials are set to be tested again after the Group One winner’s slashing return to the track in last Saturday’s G2 P.B. Lawrence Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield. Trainer Andrew Forsman said next month’s G2 Feehan Stakes (1600m) is the six-year-old’s likely next run after he reeled off the best final 600m, 400m and 200m to get within two lengths of Mr Brightside (NZ) (Bullbars). Forsman said that while Aegon’s Melbourne form is hard to fault, his only failure came at The Valley in this…

Trainer Liam Howley joins RSN’s Racing Pulse with an update on his runners after track gallops at Moonee Valley this morning. LISTEN

Donna Logan joins Steve Hewlett on Racing HQ, she remains hopeful that Singapore racing won’t be shut down in 2024 as turnover and crowds have increased since the announcement. LISTEN

Cambridge’s Stud Champion Two-Year-Old Sword Of State has ushered in the next phase of his career with the arrival of two well-bred colts. As a Group One-winning son of Snitzel, Sword Of State has natural appeal to the Australian market and the exciting young stallion’s first foal has arrived across the Tasman at famed Hunter Valley nursery Kia Ora Stud. “Needle And Thread had a belter of a Sword of State colt,” Kia Ora Stud’s Bloodstock and Breeding Manager Shane Wright said. “He’s genuinely as a good a maiden foal…

Discovery Bay (No Nay Never) achieved targets set for him by trainer Bruce Harvey last season and will take his first step toward higher honours this term when he resumes at Taupo on Wednesday. The well-related son of No Nay Never returns from a break to take on a competitive age group line-up in the Poverty Bay Turf Club 3YO C&G (1100m) and has made good progress ahead of his return. Discovery Bay split the stakes-winning duo of Sacred Satono (NZ) (Satono Aladdin) and Codigo (NZ) (Adrossan) when runner-up in…

Leading apprentice jockey Kelsey Hannan is heading across the Tasman this week to test the waters in Australia, where she will be on loan to Murray Bridge trainer Michael Hickmott. Indentured in New Zealand to Cambridge trainer Shaun Phelan, Hannan had a standout season last term, winning 66 races despite a lengthy injury enforced layoff, and was just one win shy of apprentice premiership winner Tayla Mitchell, who is now plying her trade across the Tasman. “I was really stoked overall with how the season went,” Hannan said. “I tried…

Stakes-winning filly Loch Katrine (NZ) (Ardrossan) will kick-off the new season for a new stable when she heads to Taupo on Wednesday. Formerly in the care of Matamata trainer Daniel Miller, the Adrossan filly placed in her first two starts as a juvenile before taking out the Listed Champagne Stakes (1600m) at Pukekohe in April. She has since transferred to Stephen Autridge’s barn and will have her first start for the Matamata horseman in the Taupo Pak N Save Fillies (1100m). “I have been lucky enough to be given her…