Gytrash, the giant-killer of Australian sprinting, is getting another chance at the $15m The TAB Everest. Slot-holder Inglis announced on Friday it has again selected Gytrash as their runner in the world’s richest turf race. Trained by Gordon Richards, Gytrash now joins Nature Strip (slot holder Chris Waller Racing), Masked Crusader (Max Whitby, Neil Werrett and Col Madden) and Lost […]

James Ponsonby’s inexorable run of horror draws has finally come to an end in time to coincide with his visit to Taree on Monday. Ponsonby, who is based at The Oaks near Camden, has four of his string headed north including one of his TAB Highway performers, Clay Pan Boogie. The son of Jet Spur has been the proverbial model […]

Blaike McDougall is the jockey to follow at Wangaratta on Monday where a big eight-race card will be held on a heavy track. BEST BET QUEEN OF SASS R3 No. 12 $2.90 Can make amends after being nabbed late on debut at Wangaratta last start. With Daniel Moor (ribs) sidelined, star jockey Damian Lane takes the ride for Ellerton-Zahra. NEXT […]

Mojo Star could be given a third chance to bid for Classic glory in the St Leger at Doncaster following his luckless run in Saturday’s Irish Derby. Narrowly beaten on his first two starts, the Sea The Stars colt justified the bold decision to run in the Derby at Epsom by finishing a clear second behind the impressive Adayar. That […]

Kody Nestor is hoping the “visitor’s draw” proves to be a bonus on his home track as several of his big team find themselves in wide barriers on Sunday. Giving Nestor reason to be hopeful is that this is the third recent meeting on the track and when it’s wet, Dubbo tends to favour horses coming down the outside. “You […]

Last year’s Derby third Amhran Na Bhfiann made every yard of the running in the Comer Group International Curragh Cup. Trained by Aidan O’Brien, he was prevented from building on his huge effort at Epsom when picking up an injury on his next outing back in maiden company. Reappearing at Dundalk in April he was a 13-length winner, but was […]

Ground conditions will dictate whether Century Dream will return to Group One level for a tilt at the Qatar Sussex Stakes at Goodwood. Having been narrowly denied a third win in the Diomed Stakes at Epsom on Derby day, Simon and Ed Crisford’s stable stalwart notched his first victory of the campaign and the 10th of his career in the […]

An eight-race program to negotiate at Pakenham on Tuesday with decent sized fields in most races but no worries about track conditions with the meeting to be conducted on the synthetic surface but a most interesting runner to line up in Winx’s sister Covent Garden who contests the third event. BEST BET COVENT GARDEN R3 No. 2 While Covent Garden […]

Trainer Noel Meade is eyeing an autumn campaign with his Tattersalls Gold Cup hero Helvic Dream. While no stranger to big-race success over jumps, the Tu Va handler landed his first Group One success on the Flat when Helvic Dream got the better of old rival Broome in a thrilling contest at the Curragh last month. Broome has since filled […]

Top-class sprinting mare Glass Slippers is on course to make her belated return to action in the King George Qatar Stakes at Goodwood. Kevin Ryan’s five-year-old has won three times at Group One level, landing the Prix de l’Abbaye in 2019 and both the Derrinstown Stud Flying Five Stakes and the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint last season. She has not […]