10YO Wins Stakes Staphanos Classic

The successful roll Hawke's Bay owned and trained horses have had since the start of the new year continued last weekend with four winners in the space of two days. Cutadeel completed a winning hat-trick when successful in the last race at Pukekohe on Friday while on Saturday King Louis took out a $70000 3-year-old race at Ellerslie and Hugo The…

Uareastar winning the 2022 Auckland Cup. Photo / Trish Dunell Whether talented mare Roccia is the horse to beat in today's Marton Cup depends on what version of her turns up. The enigmatic stayer is the $6 equal favourite for the $80000 Cup at Hastings, the biggest race on a weekend that could be described as the calm between two storms after the…

Lakota Sioux proved a talented juvenile last year, following up a good third in the Listed Chesham Stakes at Royal Ascot with victory in Newmarket's Group 3 Sweet Solera Stakes. The daughter of Sioux Nation has been limited to two appearances so far in 2023, both in 10-furlong Listed races. After finishing sixth in Ayr's Doonside Cup in September,…

Hawke's Bay racehorse owner Greg Miller and his wife Donna are hoping their horse Psyclone can provide them with a silver lining after their business was put out of commission by February's Cyclone Gabrielle. TheMillers own Valley d'Vine Restaurant, which is part of Linden Estate Winery in the Esk Valley. The winery and most of the surrounding…

Race reports and quotes by Graham Clark Both Derry Lad and Blow Your Horn came up short in their bid to win a third Sky Bet Sunday Series contest of the current series and the lucrative £100000 bonus as this year's well-received programme concluded at Sandown Park.

Jerome Reynier will target Qipco British Champions Day with Facteur Cheval after finishing best of the rest behind Paddington in the Qatar Sussex Stakes at Goodwood. The French raider had been kept fresh since finishing a close-up third behind the Owen Burrows-trained Anmaat in the Prix d'Ispahan at the end of May. Given a patient ride by Maxime…

Warm Heart brought up a hat-trick when storming to an impressive Ribblesdale Stakes success at Royal Ascot. Trained by Aidan O'Brien, the daughter of Galileo arrived at the meeting having won her previous two outings, scooping Listed honours at Newbury last month. This time, she took her form to the next level in the hands of Ryan Moore as she won…

Oisin Murphy is confident Hi Royal can put up another good showing as the Newmarket second takes on 10 rivals in Saturday's Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas. The Kevin Ryan-trained colt outran odds of 125-1 to chase home Chaldean for the silver medal in the 2000 Guineas earlier this month and will now bid to confirm form over the supplemented Royal…

Oisin Murphy is confident Hi Royal can put up another good showing as the Newmarket second takes on 10 rivals in Saturday's Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas. The Kevin Ryan-trained Hi Royal outran odds of 125-1 to chase home Chaldean for the silver medal in the 2000 Guineas earlier this month and will now bid to confirm form over the supplemented…

Oisin Murphy is confident Hi Royal can put up another good showing as the Newmarket second takes on 10 rivals in Saturday's Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas. The Kevin Ryan-trained colt outran odds of 125-1 to chase home Chaldean for the silver medal in the 2000 Guineas earlier this month and will now bid to confirm form over the supplemented Royal…

New Zealand harness racing's best early-season juvenile fillies will do battle on Friday night (Mar. 23) in the $63000 G2 Delightful Lady Classic at Alexandra Park. The race memorialises one of the truly great race mares ever produced down under, with the dual Auckland Cup winner and 1981 NZ Harness Horse of the Year a prominent figure and cult…

Nature Strip turned in a trademark performance at Monday's Warwick Farm trials, but there was no shortage of connections happy with what they saw behind the world champion sprinter. Annabel Neasham was particularly buoyant after seeing Zaaki cruise into fourth position in the star-studded 824-metre trial on Good ground. The four-time Group 1 winner…

Star jockey Tommy Berry makes his return to race riding with a full book of mounts including brilliant mare I Am Me in the Listed $160000 Canterbury Sprint (1200m) at Canterbury on Sunday. Berry has taken most of December off after he was hit with five charges by Racing NSW stewards relating to his association with an owner-punter. But Berry is…

Letzbeglam won her 1050m trial at Rotorua this month and is one to watch at Pukekohe. Photo / Trish Dunell Leith Innes looks the man to follow as Pukekohe starts its new role as the home of Auckland Thoroughbred Racing. With Ellerslie closed for what could be 18 months to install the new StrathAyr track, their partners in the new club of ATR will…

Herald Sun form analyst Brad Waters takes an early look at Saturday's huge Turnbull Stakes card at Flemington. BEST BET YEARNING (Race 4, No.1) Yearning charged home when close-up in the Let's Elope Stakes first-up. She'll only be fitter and is well in at the weights. VALUE BET VOW AND DECLARE (Race 6, No.2) Vow And declare showed he was on the way…

A patient approach has helped Pam Gerard get Cork to a position where she is a force in stakes company. The improving five-year-old mare will have her second go at securing a black type victory when she contests the Group 3 Boehringer Ingelheim Metric Mile (1550m) at Awapuni on Saturday. The five-year-old first went after black type three starts…

The Manawatū Mustangs enforcer shattered the glass ceiling back in 2019 when she made history as the first female to be selected and race for a team at the ENZED SuperStock Teams Champs. Now it's just about smashing the opposition in the most brutal and entertaining form of speedway on the planet. "I show people at work some videos and stuff and…

Clear Vision wins Saturday's Tropical Turf at Gulfstream Park. Photo by Ryan Thompson, courtesy of Gulfstream Park Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Clear Vision upset the feature at Gulfstream Park, Under the Stars was a popular winner at Santa Anita and South African trainer Justin Snaith qualified two horses for November's Breeders' Cup races at Keeneland, all…

Matt Hulmes breaks down day three at the Royal Ascot including the Gold Cup, which Stradivarius is looking to win for a fourth time 20:05, 16 Jun 2021 Gold Cup Day at Royal Ascot and history is in the making with superstar stayer Stradivarius bidding to emulate Yeats and win the race for a fourth time and a fifth victory at the meeting. I'd…

Stradivarius: won his fourth successive Goodwood Cup this season Stradivarius will face five rivals in the Qatar Prix Foy at Longchamp on Sunday (4.10) before a potential tilt at the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. The six-year-old, who has been a dominant force over staying trips for the last four years, lines up against last year's Derby winner…

The 1000 Guineas is the first fillies' Classic of the season and is run over a mile on Newmarket's Rowley Mile course. The race is sponsored by Qipco and is exclusive to three-year-olds. Aidan O'Brien has trained two of the last three winners of the 1000 Guineas courtesy of top-class fillies Winter and Minding, and Billesdon Brook sprung a 66-1…

In a thrilling finish to the Listed Phils Electrical & Gipsy Caravans Ryder Stakes (1200m), Cambridge visitor and race favourite Itza Charmdeel got in the deciding stride at the winning post to claim the two-year-old feature at Otaki. The Roger James and Robert Wellwood-trained son of Charm Spirit went into the race as an impressive last-start…