The mother and son training partnership of Barbara Joseph and Paul Jones celebrated a hometown victory with Fill The Page in the $200,000 Listed Canberra Cup on Sunday. It was Joseph’s first Canberra Cup success after years of trying. “It’s wonderful,” Joseph, who has trained in Canberra for 18 years,… Read More »
It’s every country trainer’s dream to win a feature race in their home town and it’s no different for Tony Sears. The Toowoomba trainer dearly wants to win the $150,000 Listed Weetwood Handicap (1200m) at Clifford Park on March 28, a race which this year is named in honour of… Read More »
Memories of champion mare Sunline came flooding back at Canberra on Sunday when one of her siblings scored a breakthrough win on Black Opal Stakes day. The Guy Walter-trained Daline, a four-year-old Shamardal half-brother to Sunline, powered home to take out a 1200m maiden event by almost two lengths at… Read More »
Anthony Cummings has Australian Oaks ambitions for lightly-raced filly She Goes To Rio, an impressive winner of Sunday’s Listed Canberra Guineas. After settling just in behind the speed on the rail from barrier one, She Goes To Rio ($4.60) sprinted quickly when a run appeared inside the final 200m to… Read More »
Ten months ago Tommy Berry filled in for Glyn Schofield on lightly-raced juvenile Manawanui and labelled the gelding one of the best horses he had ridden in his short career. On Saturday the 21-year-old jockey is confident the same horse can land him his first Group One victory in the… Read More »
Tasmanian trainer Walter McShane will be after the biggest win of his career with Norsqui in Monday’s Group Two $400,000 Adelaide Cup at Morphettville. The five-year-old was bred by Broadmarsh-based McShane who stands his sire Matsqui. The trainer has retained a share in the diminutive gelding who has won seven… Read More »
Talented galloper Starlist hasn’t won for almost 12 months but he could finally crack it for win number six at Grafton on Monday. Starlist, who runs in the in the Tursa Employment/Training Benchmark 55 (1610m), has raced 12 times since his last victory at Grafton in April last year. Leading… Read More »
Trainer Mark Riley has conceded feature race plans for promising filly Jolie Blonde will have to wait until winter after her scratching from last month’s Listed Typhoon Tracy Stakes at Moonee Valley. Riley said Monday’s National Union of Workers Handicap (1200m) at the Valley would be her last start before… Read More »
Having successful former jockeys as parents hasn’t added to the pressure on talented New Zealand apprentice Maija Vance who landed her first Australian winner at Doomben on Saturday. Vance is the daughter of Bob and Jenny Vance who both made names for themselves in the saddle in New Zealand. Bob… Read More »
