Mike Moroney hopes to have two runners in the Australian Guineas but fears Japanese Emperor (NZ) (Satono Aladdin) may miss out on the Group One race at Flemington. Japanese Emperor and Elkington Road (All Too Hard) have been entered for the 1600m contest on Saturday. Elkington Road is safely in
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Champion galloper Golden Sixty (Medaglia d'Oro) overhauled Romantic Warrior in a gripping duel in the HK$12 million Gr.1 Hong Kong Gold Cup (2000m) at Sha Tin on Sunday. Jockey Vincent Ho stalked the pace aboard Golden Sixty before stoking Hong Kong’s champion up at the
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Lindsay Park trainers Ben and JD Hayes are back at Sandown chasing a Group One win having thought they had won a race at the top level two weeks ago. The Hayes brothers were left gutted when Gentleman Roy (So You Think) had the Gr.1 C F Orr Stakes
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Luke Currie is expecting an improved effort from Sweet Encounter (NZ) when the Toronado gelding lines up in Sunday’s HK$12 million Hong Kong Classic Cup (1800m). Slow away at the start before fading to a dead-heat eighth in the Hong Kong Classic Mile (1600m) at the end of
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Trainer Darryn Weatherley admits he isn't sure how New Zealand Group One winner Pier (NZ) (Proisir) will measure up against some of Australia's most promising three-year-olds in the Hobartville Stakes, but he is happy to roll the dice and find out. Racing is a family affair
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Trainer Matthew Williams does not want to upset the hand that feeds him. When Jamie Kah elected to ride the Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr -trained Annavisto (NZ) (Reliable Man) in the Gr.3 Tony Bourke Memorial (1400m) at Flemington on Saturday, Williams was not about to argue. Williams
Jamie Mott's opportunity aboard Roch 'N' Horse (NZ) (Per Incanto) came about due to a fellow rider being suspended, but he is hoping to cement his position in the saddle aboard the mare who could be bound for England later in the year. Mott will partner
A trip to Sandown for the Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr pair of I'm Thunderstruck (NZ) (Shocking) and Jacquinot (Rubick) has rounded out their preparations for the C F Orr Stakes. The Group One race over 1400m on Saturday kicks off Melbourne's Festival Of Racing
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Crowning a perfect week for veteran trainer Manfred Man, rising star Lucky Sweynesse’s (NZ) (Sweynesse) redemptive victory in the HK$12 million Gr.1 Centenary Sprint Cup (1200m) at Sha Tin on Sunday also provided Novara Park stallion Sweynesse with his first Group 1 winner. Devastated for Man after
Top galloper Lim’s Kosciuszko (Kermadec) passed his first test on the Polytrack with flying colours after he put his rivals to the sword in the Listed Merlion Trophy over 1200m at Kranji on Saturday. It was a remarkable effort given that the five-year-old son of Kermadec won the highlight
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Manfred Man is optimistic Lucky Sweynesse can secure G1 Centenary Sprint Cup (1200m) triumph at Sha Tin on Sunday (5 February) to further erase memories of the star speedster’s frustrating G1 LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint (1200m) experience. Sent off a short-priced favourite in the LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint on
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Excellent Peers (NZ) (Jimmy Choux) will be chanced with snaring first position in this season’s DBS x Manulife Million Challenge when he contests the first section of Wednesday’s Class 3 Tin Lok Handicap (1200m) at Happy Valley. The DBS x Manulife Million Challenge will conclude next Wednesday night