Black Caviar colt unplaced on debut

It is home to Australia's most prestigious sprint race, the Newmarket Handicap, Australia's premier speed test, the Black Caviar Lightning, along with the country's most significant race for three-year-olds, the Coolmore Stud Stakes. It has hosted all of our greatest sprinters and has been the scene of some of our most iconic performances. Given…

Craig Williams has already upended champion sprinter Nature Strip on a three-year-old in a feature race this season and he will be looking to do it again next weekend. Williams will partner the Matthew Smith-trained Buenos Noches in the $1 million Group 1 Black Caviar Lightning at Flemington. The son of Supido was beaten a nose by Giga Kick in the…

Black Caviar ridden by jockey Luke Nolen winning her first TJ Smith Stakes at Royal Randwick from Hay List in 2011. Trainer Peter Moody might wish he had the unbeatable Black Caviar for the $20 million The TAB Everest but he's hoping I Wish I Win will be all he needs to win the world's richest turf race. I Wish I Win is Moody's first Everest runner…

Unbeaten entering Saturday's G2 Juddmonte Royal Lodge S. at Newmarket but untried in black-type company, Jeff Smith's Ghostwriter (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) came through the test with flying colours to count himself among the 2024 Classic contenders. Always travelling easily in the wake of Ballydoyle's front-running G2 Champions Juvenile S.…

The Irish Champions Festival began with a renewal of Leopardstown's Listed Ballylinch Stud Irish EBF Ingabelle S. which may prove better than its status in time as two class acts dominated proceedings throughout. While Ballydoyle's 13-8 favourite Content (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) did her thing by going fast in front and keeping at it, Natalia…

Smart stablemates Tiz Invincible and Griff are primed to give leading trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace an early stakes double at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday. Maher and Eustace kicked off the new season with a bang when I Am Me took out last week's Group 2 Missile Stakes and will chase consecutive stakes-winning weekends in Saturday's Listed…

The mile maiden (6.45) on tonight's Sandown card has a reputation for producing a future star, with Too Darn Hot, Westover and Arrest featuring among the race's recent winners. Here, we run through the main protagonists in this year's field. . . T&C's apply18+begambleaware.org Trainer: Charlie Appleby Jockey: William Buick Forecast SP: 11-4 From…

It's looking increasingly doubtful that we will ever see Minding's first foal Victorium, a daughter of Deep Impact, on the racecourse, but her second foal Henry Longfellow made his debut for Aidan O'Brien at the Curragh on Saturday and won in the manner of one who'll go a long way towards living up to his illustrious pedigree. The high-class…

Daily Telegraph form analyst Shayne O'Cass runs the rule over every race, including suggested bets, for Saturday's Hobartville Stakes meeting at Rosehill on Saturday. The Form: Complete NSW Racing thoroughbred form, including video replays and all you need to know about every horse, jockey and trainer. Find a winner here. Track: Soft 6. Rail: Out…

On Thursday, two fascinating divisions of the Ladbrokes Blue Diamond Previews at Sandown-Hillside take place, with numerous first starters adding to the intrigue. Seven of the ten acceptors for the colts and gelding preview will be making their career debuts. The likely favourite is the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained The Instructor. The son…

All Parfait (Jpn) (Real Steel {Jpn}) made it back-to-back victories with a half-length triumph in the 1600-metre G2 Daily Hai Nisai S. at Hanshin on Saturday. Second was race favourite Danon Touchdown (Jpn) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}), who left the gates at 5-2. The first stakes-winner for his 2016 G1 Dubai Turf-winning sire, the 2-year-old colt broke in…

News Corp tipster Gilbert Gardiner runs the rule over Friday night's Pakenham meeting. BEST BET LIFE LESSONS (R3 No.10 - $2.50) First-up in six months but debut performance, second at Sandown last April, good enough to be winning here. NEXT BEST BEDFORD ESTATE (R1 No.1 - $3.30) Great return at Mornington, third beaten less than half a length,…

Godolphin pulled a little bit of a surprise on Monday by naming Ingratiating, a horse that traces his roots to the same family as Black Caviar, to complete The Everest field for 2022. The four-year-old son of Frosted has this season returned to his brilliant juvenile form, where he was a Blue Diamond runner-up and third in a Golden Slipper, and his…

Invincible Caviar, who trainer Peter Moody says most resembles her dam, the unbeaten champion Black Caviar, has made a winning return to racing at Sale. By I Am Invincible, Invincible Caviar is one of seven foals of Black Caviar and registered her second career win with a first-up victory in the Carlton Draught Handicap (1208m) on Wednesday. Moody,…

Since the introduction of Group racing in Australia, only four horses have won six or more Group 1s in a single season. Three of those are legends of the sport - Kingston Town, Black Caviar and Winx - the other is the underrated superstar Weekend Hussler. The 2008 Australian Champion Racehorse of the Year put together one of the most extraordinary…

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The most anticipated debut of the week ended in plugging defeat but Peter Moody has not given up on I Am Caviar. Black Caviar's seventh foal began his racing career as a raging $1.28 favourite in a 1000m maiden at Moe today. He seemed to gallop comfortably outside the leader before flailing in the soft ground to finish fifth. I Am Caviar was as…

Click on Planet Sport's Live Race Centre for the ideal online companion to the action at Ascot, including race cards. Here's a quick list of Planet Sport's picks for the ITV Racing heats at Royal Ascot on Saturday, June 18. Alfred Munnings (14.30 Royal Ascot) Samburu (15.05 Royal Ascot) Hurricane Lane (15.40 Royal Ascot) Home Affairs (16.20 Royal…

Baaeed can live up to his banker status and get punters off to a perfect start in the Queen Anne Stakes, the opening event of Royal Ascot 2022. William Haggas' charge will be no price at all in the mile heat, but he is the only logical option as he bids to extend his unbeaten record to eight following a hugely impressive return in last month's…

Good Morning Bloodstock is Martin Stevens' daily morning email and presented online as a sample. Here he reflects on the sudden and way too premature death of the Classic heroine Billesdon Brook, who leaves behind just the one foal - All you need do is click on the link above, sign up and then read at your leisure each weekday morning from…

Shadwell and John Gosden combined to huge success with the great Taghrooda and the same team could have another exciting prospect on their hands with Israr, a son of the Oaks and King George-winning daughter of Sea The Stars. Having swerved markedly right on leaving the stalls in the mile British Stallion Studs EBF Maiden Stakes at Doncaster on…

The two-year-olds take centre stage at Rosehill Gardens with the big race for the juveniles, the Group One Longines Golden Slipper carrying a purse of $3.5 million. We've had to wait an extra week for Slipper day, after Sydney was hit with heavy rainfall causing the abandonment of the races last Saturday. Given the amount of rain, we're likely to…

Camelot so bestrides the Investec Derby that some bookmakers now offer odds that would qualify him as the hottest favourite since Tudor Minstrel was beaten at 4-7 in 1947. Only 11 other colts were left in the race yesterday, four of them from the same stables in Co Tipperary, and he is just 8-13 with Betfred to win on Saturday. With the sport's…

Jarred Magnabosco knew it was a bold play going as hard as he did for Steel City, but he did so confident that a reward like the one that beckons this Saturday was realistic. The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained filly is in line to present Magnabosco with his biggest win since launching Best Bloodstock around two years ago in the $2 million…

Jarred Magnabosco knew it was a bold play going as hard as he did for Steel City, but he did so confident that a reward like the one that beckons this Saturday was realistic. The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained filly is in line to present Magnabosco with his biggest win since launching Best Bloodstock around two years ago in the $2 million…