#Tancred Stakes

Colette confirmed herself as Australia's latest weight-for-age star by dominating the Apollo Stakes at Randwick on Saturday. The Apollo Stakes is a good horse's race with a winners list including Emancipation, Beau Zam, Red Anchor, Naturalism, Sunline, Lonhro and the mighty Winx. While not in that category yet, she proved she wasn't just a flash in…

Champion sprinter Nature Strip will attempt to win a fourth win consecutive TJ Smith Stakes during The Championships in the autumn. Picture: Getty Images Champion sprinter Nature Strip and Caulfield Cup winner Durston will spearhead trainer Chris Waller's all-star team for the Sydney autumn carnival. Reigning Horse of the Year Nature Strip is a…

Dehorned Unicorn ran one of the fastest 1200m at Royal Randwick in history last start - and didn't win! The Joe Pride-trained Dehorned Unicorn recorded a flying 1m 7.97s but was when beaten just over a length by brilliant mare I Am Me two weeks ago. Both sprinters are racing again this weekend but they won't be clashing this time with Dehorned…

After horrific weather at Rosehill on Saturday caused the meeting to be abandoned after three races, the remainder of the Stakes Day has been moved to Newcastle on Monday March 28th. Stakes Day will be highlighted by the $1.5 million Group 1 Tancred Stakes and $500000 Group 1 Vinery Stud Stakes. Here's everything you need to know ahead of Stakes…

Edward Cummings has Melbourne Cup plans for 2021 Queensland Oaks winner Duais. Picture: Racing Photos His famous grandfather won the Melbourne Cup 12 times and now Ed Cummings has his eyes firmly focused on one. A year ago Ed Cummings became the latest member of his family to score a Group 1 when then relatively unknown filly Duais ventured to the…

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…

The VRC Oaks is the first fillies-only staying Group 1 of the season and, therefore, every runner in the field is unknown over the 2500 metres. Below is a look at their breeding and whether they are likely to run out the trip strongly. 1 MONTEFILIA - Kermadec x Bana Wu (Shirocco) $1.80 favourite with Sportsbet With Kermadec's oldest progeny just…

Pre-race favourite Duais has bolted in to win the $1.5 million Tancred Stakes, claiming its third Group 1 in the process. The four-year-old mare, trained by Edward Cummings, proved far too good for the rest of the field, with jockey Josh Parr biding his time before allowing her to let rip down the straight to win by 3.4 lengths. Stockman finished…

The Melbourne Cup has rolled around again and that means it's time for a nation to have a punt. This year's race resembles an old school race with the field mostly made up by locally-trained gallopers with a few international raiders thrown in and heading up the market. The favourite is a horse called Deauville Legend and it's trained by a young…

James Cummings covets the Golden Slipper with a zeal that borders on religious fervour. The Godolphin trainer gave an insight into just what this race means to him by revealing a telling conversation he had with one of his stable staff earlier this week. "My foreman said to me the other day this is just a race,'' Cummings said. "I said it is not…

Daily Telegraph form analyst Matt Jones runs the rule over every race, including suggested bets, for the Golden Slipper 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! ROSEHILL Track: Soft 7. Rail: +5m…

Duais is at the top of the markets for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups. Picture: Vince Caligiuri/Getty Images The Melbourne Cup won't be the only multimillion-dollar target for Duais in the spring. The mare's trainer Ed Cummings also has the Japan Cup on the triple Group 1 winner's agenda. Duais is high in betting for the Caulfield and Melbourne…

On the first of November, a field of talented stayers from all over the world will enter the stall at Flemington racecourse ahead of the 2022 Melbourne Cup. There are now less than four days to go before "the race that stops a nation" hits our screens and the betting is beginning to hot up. Let's take a look through the latest Melbourne Cup odds…

Trainer Pat Carey will have crack at Saturday's $1m Australian Oaks with longshot filly Commando Drift. Picture: AAP Pat Carey thinks it's about time he headed north to take some more of the Sydney autumn carnival cash. Carey launched a successful Tancred Stakes raid in 2011 with Cedarberg before returning two years later to win the Australian…

Race-by-race preview and tips for Randwick on Saturday We're sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We're working to restore it. Please try again later. 5. Voldemort won a Scone maiden over 1000m on debut as a $6 pop. Not the most conventional lead in to be competitive in a group 3 on day one of The Championships, but it was no ordinary win.…

Gilbert Gardiner and Clinton Payne Four-time Cox Plate-winning jockey Hugh Bowman is set to be reunited with Duais in the $8m Group 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m). Josh Parr has been Duais's regular pilot this year, following early success winning the Australian Cup and Tancred Stakes in back-to-back Group 1 autumn starts. Duais ran eighth at Caulfield on…

Roger James has successfully plundered some of Sydney's biggest carnival races during his training career and while his spring plans for Queensland Derby winner Pinarello are modest, he hopes to up the ante in the future. Best known for his feats with top mare Silent Achiever, who captured the Group 1 Ranvet Stakes-Tancred Stakes double in 2014,…

Coolmore's Tom Magnier has a unique description for the $3.5 million Longines Golden Slipper: "This is the race that changes people's addresses." Simply translated, if a well-bred colt wins the race, then he becomes very hot property. His owners will collect a cool $2 million first prizemoney - but wait, there's more. If the Slipper winner is a…

Bjorn Baker is keen to strike while the iron is hot and execute another valuable Melbourne feature raid with She's Ideel in Saturday's Group 1 Australian Cup (2000m) at Flemington. Baker's Warwick Farm yard is coming off a stellar weekend with three feature race wins across two tracks in a matter of hours last Saturday. Two of those triumphs came…

The New Corp Racing and Sports Wagering team have put together an expert panel to give you, the audience the early inside running on feature races in Melbourne and Sydney this spring. The panel of five will be offering their early thoughts on all of the Group 1 races and other feature contests during the spring, through until the end of the…