Robin Goodfellow’s racing tips: Best bets for Tuesday, August 10 Trainer Richard Hannon is planning to give Derby runner-up Mojo Star what he hopes will be a confidence-boosting chance to break his duck in the maiden at Newbury on Saturday ahead of a challenge for next month’s Cazoo St Leger. Mojo Star, who has yet to win in his four […]

Royal Ascot fourth Blue Cup is on target for the Sky Bet Ebor at York next week, with trainer David Menuisier happy to take a “punt” at stepping up in distance. The five-year-old put up a career-best in the Wolferton Stakes and will try a trip beyond a mile and quarter for the first time in the £500,000 feature on […]

Go Bears Go is likely to contest either the Prix Morny or the Gimcrack Stakes on his next appearance following his narrow defeat at the Curragh on Sunday. Successful on his Ascot debut in early May, the Kodi Bear colt was beaten a head in the Norfolk Stakes at the Royal meeting before going one better in the Group Two […]

Mark Newnham-trained three-year-old Russian Standard is as fast as any other Capitalist on the ground, the only problem is he can’t seem to do it in the afternoon. While not quite yet, condemned as a dreaded ‘morning glory’, Russian Standard needs to bring his trial form to the track at Hawkesbury on what is shaping something of an early D-Day […]

Vinery Stud has announced champion sire Mossman passed away on Friday at age 26. Mossman, which won the J.J Atkins Stakes for Clarry Conners as a juvenile, was the sire Group 1 winners Buffering, Mossfun, Miss Mossman and Plucky Belle. He was retired to stud in 2000 where he would go on to sire 41 stakes winners with six of […]

Marianafoot extended his winning streak when taking the Group One Larc Prix Maurice de Gheest at Deauville. The Jerome Reynier-trained six-year-old cut through a top-class field of 12 to take the six-and-a-half-furlong contest at 11-1 under Mickael Barzalona. Tropbeau, a 150-1 chance, was second, with Ed Walker’s July Cup hero Starman (15-8 favourite) finishing third on the very soft going. […]

Alpinista emulated her granddam as she claimed a first Group One victory in the Longines 131st Grosser Preis von Berlin at Hoppegarten. Albanova won the German feature in 2004, when it was known as the Deutschland-Preis and run at Dusseldorf, and her four-year-old granddaughter followed in her footsteps on Sunday for trainer Sir Mark Prescott. Partnered by Luke Morris, Alpinista […]

A chance conversation at a polocrosse competition helped set up Lindsay Cadzow with his first metropolitan winner in 40 years of training when $101 pop Wurlies Lastchance won at Murray Bridge on Saturday. And in a freaky connection the name of the race was the Adrian Pederick MP handicap, a man Cadzow knew of in their 20s when the pair […]

Chris Waller’s new acquisition Hinged is likely to be targeted at the Group 1 Flight Stakes in Sydney this spring, but former trainer Michael Nolan believes the promising filly could also be an ideal type for next year’s Group 1 Queensland Oaks. Hinged won five from seven starts for Toowoomba trainer Nolan and breeder/owner, retired dentist Dr Kim McCasker. Nolan […]

Sydney trainer Annabel Neasham says the only race that is 100 per cent locked in for Zaaki is the Cox Plate. The highly-regarded import is the $4 favourite in the TAB Fixed Odds Cox Plate market and he’s set to make his first public appearance this time around in a Warwick Farm barrier trial on Monday. Neasham has said the […]