Sydney riches could lure Coolangatta

Broadcaster works home for third behind Arctic Glamour at Randwick on Everest Day. Picture: Supplied Each week, our Breeding Blackbook analyses the form through a pedigree lens to pinpoint future winners. - BROADCASTER Breeding: 3yo filly by Written Tycoon from Bel Selene (Bel Esprit) Trainer: Ciaron Maher and David Eustace Sales information: Was…

There's still 175 days to the $5 million Golden Slipper and this season's juveniles haven't even started racing yet but already punters can start betting on who will win the world's richest two-year-old race. TAB Fixed Odds has released the first market on next year's Golden Slipper with Scampi at the top of betting at $17. The Ciaron Maher and…

MELBOURNE, Vic,-The nominees for the prestigious 2022/2023 Australian Racehorse of the Year awards have been announced today by Racing & Wagering Western Australia in association with Racing Australia. This year's awards will be held at Optus Stadium in Perth on 23 November, in what will be a spectacular double header with the Australian Racing…

The nominees for the prestigious 2022/2023 Australian Racehorse of the Year awards have been announced today by Racing and Wagering Western Australia (RWWA) in association with Racing Australia. This year's awards will be held at Optus Stadium in Perth on 23 November, in what will be a spectacular double header with the Australian Racing Hall of…

Passeggiata means "slow stroll" in Italian. The irony is not lost on owner Brae Sokolski. "She is the fastest horse I've had anything to do with," Sokolski declared. This is some statement as Sokolski also races the brilliant Coolangatta, a dual Group 1 winner at 1000m of the Moir Stakes and Lightning Stakes this season. Coolangatta left for…

Ciaron Maher, trainer of Kundalini, isn't about to concede unbeaten filly Learning To Fly has a mortgage on the Group 2 $300000 Reisling Stakes (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday. "Kundalini is great, she had an easy week after her run the other day then did a piece of work last Saturday,'' Maher said. "Obviously Annabel's filly (Learning To Fly) is…

Mark Smith - Saturday February 18 The odds-on favourite Nature Strip finished unplaced, while the three-year-old Written Tycoon filly Coolangatta claimed a second Group 1, which was the wash-up from a thrilling $1000000 Group 1 Black Caviar Lightning Stakes (1000m) at Flemington on Saturday. Ridden by Jamie Kah for Ciaron Maher and David Eustace,…

Taking on Nature Strip is one of the ultimate challenges in racing, but Ciaron Maher and David Eustace believe they have three genuine challengers for the Black Caviar Lightning at Flemington on Saturday. Bella Nipotina, Coolangatta and Marabi are all first-up and ready to pick up where they left off from their last preparations. Coolangatta is the…

Rebel Dane walked through the front gate at Widden Stud'just five-minutes ago,' and already he's the Australian Champion Sire of 2YOs for this 2021-2022 season. With his juvenile filly Fireburn winning the $5m Longines Golden Slipper Stakes and $1m Inglis Sires' Produce Stakes as his only season winner, he's finishing with $3.91m in progeny…

Victoria's leading trainer Ciaron Maher has won 29 group one races at the elite level including a Cox Plate, Manikato Stakes, Caulfield Cup and VRC Oaks but he thinks imported galloper Light Infantry might be the best of the lot. Light Infantry runs in Saturday's $10 million Golden Eagle at Rosehill, under a unique training arrangement and his hit…

IF it's not the greatest day there is since days were invented, it'll do us till Tuesday. That most glorious of race meetings - VRC Derby Day - is upon us once again. A smorgasbord wrapped in an extravaganza of an afternoon, as steeped in history as in prestige, kicking off Australia's grandest week of racing - Flemington's four-day Melbourne Cup…

Star filly Coolangatta can't seem to get away from loud noises at the moment. Coolangatta was spooked when a crack of thunder split the night sky while she was heading on to the track before Friday's aborted Manikato Stakes at The Valley. Jockey Craig Williams reported the three-year-old also took fright before trackwork at Cranbourne on Tuesday…

Coolangatta dominated on speed in the Moir Stakes. Picture: Pat Scala-Racing Photos via Getty Images Coolangatta burned off a quality field to win the $1m Group 1 Moir Stakes at The Valley, holding out the gutsy stablemate Bella Nipotina in a pulsating finish. Given a pearl of a steer from star jockey Jamie Kah the electric three-year-old, with…

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…

Blake Shinn makes his return to Sydney racing when he rides Paris Dior for Peter and Paul Snowden in the Group 1 Golden Rose at Rosehill on Saturday. Picture: Getty Images Champion jockey Blake Shinn will ride in Sydney for the first time in nearly three years when he partners talented filly Paris Dior in the Group 1 $1m Chandon Golden Rose (1400m)…

Sydney's Rosehill Racecourse will host the only card in the southern hemisphere with five Group One races, when a stellar program gets underway at 9:10 p.m. EST Friday. In a season (which began last August) that has seen fillies ranked slightly above their male counterparts, favoritism will be shouldered by the undefeated Coolangatta (4/1). Named…

Unbeaten filly Coolangatta can give owners Brae Sokolski and Ozzie Kheir their first Golden Slipper win. Picture: Getty Images Brae Sokolski, the owner with the Midas touch, can secure racing's version of the "Golden Slam" with Coolangatta at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday. In the last three years, Sokolski and his friend, Ozzie Kheir, have shared…

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…

James McDonald believes Coolangatta's lack of recent racing will prove a benefit heading into Saturday's Golden Slipper. Picture: Getty Images Champion jockey James McDonald is convinced Coolangatta's lack of recent racing will actually prove a "blessing" when she contests the $5m Longines Golden Slipper (1200m) at Rosehill Gardens on…

Five horses who could star in the Sydney Autumn The Autumn Carnival is Sydney is almost upon us with the Golden Slipper, Doncaster Handicap and Queen Elizabeth Stakes among the features in store over the coming months. Who are the horses to follow and what are the horse racing tips predicting? Which unknown quantities could emerge as stars of the…

Verry Elleegant and Nature Strip, the nation's best racehorses, are defying time - but for how much longer? Since the retirement of all-time great Winx three years ago, the Chris Waller-trained duo have reigned supreme. Nature Strip inherited the Horse of the Year title from his former stablemate in 2019-20 before Verry Elleegant claimed the honour…

Brilliant filly Coolangatta can collect one of the biggest paydays in Australian racing history by completing the "Slipper Slam" culminating with the $5 million Longines Golden Slipper next autumn. Coolangatta confirmed favouritism for the Magic Millions Classic and Golden Slipper with a comfortable comeback win in Sunday's BJ McLachlan Stakes at…

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…

A tilt at the inaugural running of The Quokka remains on the agenda for the Ciaron Maher and David Eustace -trained Bella Nipotina. With prize money of $4 million, The Quokka (1200m) at Ascot on April 15 is part of the Western Triology which sees slot races run in Perth for the gallops, greyhounds and harness racing. The Sandgroper for greyhounds…