#Forbidden Love

Richard (left) and Michael (right) Freedman with Tommy Berry after winning the Golden Slipper with Stay Inside. Pic: Getty Images. Golden Slipper winners Richard and Michael Freedman have enjoyed a golden autumn carnival and will kick off a Queensland carnival assault on Saturday with a young colt they think has the potential to emerge as a winter…

Champion sprinter Nature Strip remains a short-priced favourite to go back-to-back in The Everest (1200m) after Tuesday's spectacular barrier draw despite copping the widest gate. The Chris Waller-trained gelding drew barrier 12 for the $15m feature race at Randwick which is typically not ideal, however, there are some suggestions this will allow…

Inundation crushed his rivals to break the 1000m record at The Valley. Picture: Morgan Hancock/Racing Photos via Getty Images Inundation has emerged as a stakes horse in waiting with a blistering 1000m victory at The Valley in track record time. Rated supremely by Jamie Kah, the Mick Price and Michael Kent Jr-trained gelding stalked leader…

Ben and JD Hayes have put one of the most famous names in Australian racing back up in lights with Mr Brightside's fast-finishing win in the $3m Doncaster Mile (1600m) at Royal Randwick on Saturday. The brothers scored their first Group 1 win as a training partnership when Mr Brightside finished too strongly for I'm Thunderstruck to lead home a…

Spring is around the corner and Sydney will kick their carnival off a little early with the running of the Group 1 Winx Stakes at Royal Randwick on August 20th. Formerly known as the Warwick Stakes, the name was changed back in 2018 to honour the legendary career of 25-time Group 1 winner. It was also bumped up from Group 2 status in the same year,…

The barrier is the biggest obstacle for 5. Bandi's Boy. The Danny Williams-trained sprinter made his debut in the group 3 Kindergarten last preparation as a two-year-old, catching the eye late as an $81 chance, before backing that up with an impressive win at Randwick, getting the better of race favourite Zougotcha despite still doing plenty wrong.…

Royal Randwick is set to host three massive weekends of racing - and it will all start this Saturday with Day 1 of The Championships. With four massive Group 1 races including the Doncaster Mile and TJ Smith Stakes, fans will be keen to see their favourite horses in action. But the horses, jockeys and trainers will all have to contend with a heavy…

Daily Telegraph Racing Editor Ray Thomas and form analyst Shayne O'Cass give their best bets for Canterbury and Port Macquarie. 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! By Ray Thomas BEST BET Race 5, No.1: ITA Ita is a genuine mare…

March 18 (UPI) -- Oaklawn Park steps to the fore in weekend horse racing with a pair of competitive races on the Saturday program while the BMW Hong Kong Derby and the Golden Slipper in Australia headline the international action. Otherwise, there's no getting around the fact it's a relatively slow weekend. So we'll have a week-ahead look at…

Eduardo is on target for the Group 1 T.J Smith Stakes. Picture: Grant Guy Trainer Joe Pride's powerful presence for The Championships including stable stars Eduardo, Private Eye, Brutality and Shalatin, could provide him with a historic Group 1 treble at Royal Randwick on Saturday. Pride's done his job. His talented quartet are primed and ready but…

North Melbourne Premiership coach Denis Pagan has won the Victoria Derby with Johnny Get Angry - his first-ever Group 1 contender and the great AFL coach's first runner when he began his training career just six months ago. And, making things even sweeter, Pagan himself owns the gelding, having bought him for just $50000, meaning he will pocket the…

Sky Racing's form analyst Brad Davidson 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! RANDWICK Track: Heavy 9. Rail: True. R1: TAB HIGHWAY…

Hopefully I've found a few of these on Saturday. Another bottomless heavy track awaits punters at Randwick on Saturday and I've found some horse that should relish the conditions at good odds. Tips are listed in AEDT. It is a huge ask for a horse to win a race at this level on debut but when she was trialling up pre-Christmas I had her pegged as a…

Stay Inside can improve second-up in the Run To The Rose. Picture: Grant Guy Stay Inside can join champion Pierro as the only Golden Slipper winners to take out the Group 2 $200000 Run To The Rose (1200m) at Kembla Grange on Saturday. Pierro won the double in 2011, following on from his unbeaten juvenile season that included the coveted Sydney…

Kerrin McEvoy, winning The Everest on Redzel in its first year, insists the race should officially be a Group 1. Picture: AAP Champion jockey Kerrin McEvoy declared the $15m The TAB Everest should be given Group 1 status as he chases a record fourth win in the world's richest turf race on Shades Of Rose at Royal Randwick on Saturday. McEvoy, who…

Overpass clashes with a number of Everest rivals in Saturday's Premiere Stakes at Randwick. Picture: Grant Guy Overpass, the ninth confirmed starter for The TAB Everest, gets another opportunity to prove he can compete with the nation's elite sprinters in the Group 2 $1 million Premiere Stakes (1200m) at Royal Randwick on Saturday. The Bjorn…

Tommy Berry is expecting a different Mo'unga come race day Mo'unga's barrier trial mishap hasn't dented the confidence of his rider, Tommy Berry, ahead of a showdown with a star-studded field for the Group 1 $750000 Winx Stakes (1400m) at Royal Randwick on Saturday. The form guide won't make flattering reading for Mo'unga after he finished last of…

Racing's "Mr Reliable" Tim Clark is riding for a unique three-peat in the Group 1 $600000 Coolmore Classic (1500m) when he partners classy mare Vangelic at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday. Clark has won the last two Coolmores on Krone (2021) and Con Te Partiro (2020). No jockey has ridden a hat-trick of winners in the feature fillies and mares race…

GUN three-year-old Anamoe has firmed into favouritism for the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes after a stunning victory in the Group 1 Rosehill Guineas. The son of Street Boss ($1.70 fav) annihilated a quality field by six-and-a-half lengths, dashing clear to defeat Converge ($3.80), with Forgot You ($11) three-quarters-of-a-length away third. The…