#Breeders' Plate

Bjorn Baker believes there is improvement left in Infatuation for the Magic Millions Classic in a fortnight and is also toying with the addition of some headgear on the Gold Coast after she scored her first win at Randwick on Saturday. Infatuation ($4.40) confirmed her top prizemoney seeding for the Magic Millions by breaking her maiden with a…

Daily Telegraph form analyst Shayne O'Cass runs the rule over every race, including suggested bets, for the Randwick meeting 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 5. Rail: Out 9m. Overview: The Magic…

Breeding authority Peter Wharton presents all the harness racing news on breeding from Australia, New Zealand and North America every week brought to you by Garrard's Horse & Hound. Chicago Gangster, the season's latest two-year-old classic winner, in beating a useful field in the $$30600 Tatlow Stakes at Menangle, gives the impression that he…

Daily Telegraph form analyst Shayne O'Cass gives his best bets and runs the rule over every race for Warwick Farm. 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! BEST BET Race 6, No.6: DE AN ANDRETTI Won on debut like a good horse then had…

Platinum Jubilee was a sensational winner of the Gimcrack Stakes. Picture: Mark Evans-Getty Images Sydney punters will get an early Christmas gift when unbeaten juveniles Empire Of Japan, Godfather and Platinum Jubilee face off in a mouth-watering Magic Millions dress rehearsal at Randwick this Saturday. In what shapes as an absorbing showdown on…

The James Cummings-trained Mr Wallace looks hard to beat at Wyong on Wednesday. Picture: Michael Klein News Corp form analyst Mitch Cohen gives his best bets and runs the rule over Wednesday's Wyong Magic Millions meeting. The Form: Complete NSW Racing thoroughbred form, including video replays and all you need to know about every horse, jockey and…

Jason Collett rides El Padrino (right) to victory in the Inglis Nursery at Randwick. Picture: Getty Images Trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace are aiming El Padrino and the luckless Boldinho at the Golden Slipper - but they still have to catch brilliant stablemate Coolangatta. The Maher-Eustace stable claimed their second successive…

The finish of the Premiere Stakes proved champion Nature Strip will have some real competition for the $15m The TAB Everest in a fortnight. Lost And Running narrowly defeated Mazu and Masked Crusader with the trio showing they will be worthy rivals to Nature Strip in the world's richest turf race at Royal Randwick on October 15. Throw spectacular…

Trainer Gerald Ryan is hoping to secure a Golden Slipper berth on Saturday. Picture: Getty Images Trainer Gerald Ryan will launch a double-pronged assault at Saturday's Todman Stakes (1200m) in hopes of securing a Golden Slipper berth. Psychiatrist and Boyfriend have shown good ability in their two respective starts and will look to stamp a spot in…

Tommy Berry had a big few days with a two-state feature double taking out the VRC Oaks and the Five Diamonds. Picture: Daniel Pockett-Getty Images Star jockey Tommy Berry's VRC Oaks-Five Diamonds feature race two-state double last week is a sign of the changing times in Australian racing. Sydney's extended spring carnival has encroached on…

Gary Portelli's sliding doors moment came as Clarry Conners was singing "New York, New York" on the dance floor. Conners had just won his fourth Golden Slipper with Belle Du Jour and invited Portelli to join the celebrations that night. The year was 2000 and as Conners was doing his best Frank Sinatra impersonation, Portelli realised what he needed…

Trainers Peter and Paul Snowden are keen for Cythera to enhance her reputation and Ebhaar to restore hers when they clash in the Group 2 $250000 Silver Slipper Stakes (1100m) at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday. Cythera is out to prove she is a legitimate Golden Slipper contender after making a winning start to her race career with a tough effort to…

Trainer Gary Portelli says there is a bit of "deja vu with She Will Reign" about brilliant colt Sejardan going into the $5m Golden Slipper in two weeks. "When you've got one of the best two-year-olds, you can do different things with those horses,'' Portelli said. "What Sejardan has done today shows me he is the real deal. He is still a bit…

For a race that seems to be run and won in a blink of an eye, the first Golden Slipper Chris Waller ever attended left a lasting impression. It was 1996 and Waller was then an unknown 23-year-old from New Zealand and was asked to lead a horse for the nation's dominant big-race trainer, Lee Freedman. "I can't remember who asked me but I can…

Leaders dominated last week at Eagle Farm and with rail going out to four metres much of the same can be expected. Once again, there are southern raiders coming up in search of good ground but previous experience on the track is advantageous. The talented 3kg claimer Angela Jones is currently leading the Queensland Metro Jockeys premiership and I…

Leading form analysts Dean Watling (The Barrier Attendant) and Mick Gannon (The Great Tip Off) have assessed the fields at Randwick and Flemington this Saturday. They have looked over some of the key races on a big day of Group 1 and Group 2 racing. Read their assessment of the Flight Stakes, Premiere Stakes, Epsom Handicap, Breeders' Plate, The…

There is a push from within the Sydney training ranks to have the season's first juvenile races, the Breeders' Plate and Gimcrack Stakes, moved to Everest Day from next year. The proposal suggests delaying the start of the two-year-old season by two weeks will bolster the prestigious The TAB Everest meeting at Royal Randwick. Under the existing…

Gary Portelli's unbeaten colt Sejardan is favourite for the $2 million Inglis Millennium at Randwick on Saturday. Picture: Grant Guy Trainer Lauri Parker's penchant for producing upset results provides hope for her bolter Russian Assassin in the $2 million Inglis Millennium (1100m) at Royal Randwick on Saturday. Russian Assassin is going to the…