#Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap

Ayrton returned to the winners' list after saluting in the Gunsynd Classic. Picture: Trackside Photography It wasn't quite the Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap they had dreamt of, but boom horse Ayrton is back on track after a dominant win in Saturday's Group 3 Gunsynd Classic, prompting trainer Mick Price to put the super rich Golden Eagle on the…

Apache Chase had no trouble winning the Nudgee Old Boys' Cup at Eagle Farm. Picture: Trackside Photography Desleigh Forster and Jim Byrne will consider braving 14 days in hotel quarantine to take top Queensland galloper Apache Chase to the super-rich Golden Eagle in Sydney later this month after asserting himself as one of the state's best at Eagle…

The Magic Millions Cup will feature a full field of 15 runners with five emergencies accepting for the $1 million race over 1425m. The 2023 Magic Millions field is littered with Group and Listed race winners as well as the top weight, Vega One, who is trying to win his second in four years. The winner of the Magic Millions Cup will take home…

Far north Queensland sensation Paniagua has been strongly backed to continue his winning roll as new trainer Glen Baker declared him ready to rumble in the $250000 The Gateway at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Shooting for his ninth consecutive win in his biggest test to date, Paniagua opened as long as $16 in some places and was as short as $6 on…

Within six months Apache Chase has morphed from the hunter to the hunted. The speed machine made his name upstaging boom horse Ayrton to book a last-minute ticket into the Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap during the winter carnival, now trainer Desleigh Forster has the best part of six months to plot her way to the race after securing a spot by winning…

Far north Queensland sensation Paniagua has been strongly backed to continue his winning roll as new trainer Glen Baker declared him ready to rumble in the $250000 The Gateway at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Shooting for his ninth consecutive win in his biggest test to date, Paniagua opened as long as $16 in some places and was as short as $6 on…

Queensland's Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap could be the big 2022 goal for slashing Gold Coast Magic Millions 3YO Guineas runner-up Me Me Legarde which will also have some big fish to fry in the Sydney autumn carnival. Me Me Legarde will trial on her home Gold Coast track on Monday in her first public outing since storming home from the back to finish…

Gypsy Goddess storms to victory in the Group 1 Queensland Oaks under jockey William Pike. Picture: Grant Peters - Trackside Photography. Better than Yankee Rose, better than Alligator Blood. And a hell of a lot better than the dark days when he was in the depths of a drug addiction spiral and sleeping in his car in Sydney. Gypsy Goddess' remarkable…

AS one The Everest champion prepares to take on the world, another is about to resume trackwork after injury. Nature Strip, winner of The Everest last year and the number one ranked sprinter in the world, has arrived in England to prepare for the Group 1 King's Stand Stakes (1000m) at Royal Ascot on June 14. But back in Sydney, the "grey flash"…