| TAB Sportsbet Offers $31 For Faint Perfume |
Currently $16 with the TAB, customers from 6pm this evening until 9pm on Friday can back the Bart Cummings-trained mare at $31.
The offer comes after Faint Perfume yesterday was assigned 52.5kg for the event by Racing Victoria's Chief Handicapper ... (1 comments)
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| History against Cup topweights |
Lloyd Williams-owned stayers Alandi and Efficient head the weights for the Melbourne Cup but history is against either horse winning the 150th anniversary of the great race.
Racing Victoria chief handicapper Greg Carpenter, who gave the pair ... (3 comments)
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| Melbourne Cup Weights Released |
The Robert Hickmott-trained pair have each been given 58kg with 2007 Cup winner Efficient doubtful for both events as connections are not entirely pleased with how the seven-year-old is progressing this campaign.
Stable ... (8 comments)
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| Bart Cummings Hospitalised With Fractured Pelvis |
Cummings was admitted to hospital after sustaining the injury when he tripped and fell over a step.
Son Anthony Cummings expects his father to be out of hospital by the end of the week with the assistance of a walking frame.
Bart Cummings lates ... (1 comments)
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| Hall Of Fame Inductees Announced |
Northerly returned to Moonee Valley racecourse today for the announcement of the racing greats to be inducted into Hall of Fame at the Horse of the Year awards on Sunday in Melbourne.
Northerly, now a 14-year-old, joins champion racehorses such as ... (1 comments)
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| Theo Marks Contenders Go Through Paces |
Both expected to resume in the Group 2 Theo Marks Stakes (1400m) at Rosehill Saturday week, Black Piranha and Rothesay each won their respective trials over 1030m this morning.
Black Piranha stepped out in the first of 11 heats conducted at Rosehi ... (6 comments)
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| Ortensia Disqualified As Galaxy Winner |
Racing NSW stewards disqualified Ortensia as the winner after completing a long running inquiry into a postive drug test returned by the mare after the Galaxy.
Ortensia tested positive to the banned substance Ractopamine, a drug commonly used to p ... (3 comments)
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| Shoot Out Named Queensland's Best |
The 2009/10 racing season was capped off with the announcement of Shoot Out as the Queensland Horse of the Year in recognition of his wins in the G2 Royal Sovereign Stakes, G1 Randwick Guineas, G1 AJC Derby and G3 Bletchingly Stakes.
The John Wall ... (2 comments)
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| Golden Rose Glory For Toorak Toff |
It was the first time Hore-Lacy had been to Rosehill since the drama filled day when his former champion colt Redoute's Choice was a race morning scratching from the 1999 Golden Slipper Stakes after being struck down by a virus.
"It's been a long ... (10 comments)
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| More Joyous cements Cox Plate berth |
The Cox Plate dream is alive for connections of glamour mare More Joyous who defied a wide barrier and big weight to score a brilliant first-up win at Rosehill.
A bigger, stronger More Joyous was eased back in the field by Nash Rawiller and ... (16 comments)
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| Nash Rawiller Suspended After Golden Rose |
Rawiller finished second on Squamosa but his efforts to get to the front in the early part of the race caused interference to four horses as he crossed approaching the first turn.
"I concede it doesn't look good, it was a terrible error in judgmen ... (16 comments)
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| Sidereus almost gets bowled in Pago Pago Stakes |
Sidereus was given the run of the race by jockey Larry Cassidy who positioned the colt in third behind Brawled and Big Ethan.
The General Nediym colt claimed the lead with 200m to go and won by a long head after he held out a fast finishing Over t ... (1 comments)
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| So You Think Returns With Memsie Stakes Victory |
After 10 months away from racing due to a breathing irregularity and subsequent throat surgery, So You Think today reaffirmed his star qualities which were first established when he won last year's Group 1 Cox Plate (2040m ... (25 comments)
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| Group One Stars Converge On Memsie Stakes |
Of the 15 acceptors for the event, over half of the field have proven themselves at the highest level.
The field and barriers were finalised this morning and John Wallace-trained AJC Derby winner Shoot Out has firmed further into favouritism after ... (4 comments)
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| Del Mar Mile Test For Scenic Blast |
The former Perth gelding can move closer to a Breeders Cup start with a positive performance in the G2 $US250,000 Del Mar Mile where he will carry the topweight of 121 pounds.
Scenc Blast's Perth based owner Elio Galante has received positive repo ... (4 comments)
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| Golden Rose Glory |
As a million dollar extension to the Golden Slipper, the Golden Rose has become the three year old race to win in a Sydney Spring Carnival. The beaten brigade have gone onto simply remarkable glory as much as the winners. Let's closely examine the Go ... (3 comments)
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| Bart gets A Boost From Kudakulari |
An ill Cummings could not attend today's Doncaster meeting but would have been pleased with the performance of Kudakalari to win a race renowned for producing future Group winners at just his third start.
Confidently ridden by Melbourne jockey Luk ... (4 comments)
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| Sweet Scent Of Spring For Michelle Payne |
Payne's first career Group One win came at Caulfield last spring when she partnered the Cummings-trained Allez Wonder to win the Toorak Handicap.
VRC Oaks winner Faint Perfume is one of five horses Cummings has declared ... (3 comments)
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| Eventful Day For Leading Jockeys |
Boss will decide on Thursday if he will appeal against a 13-meeting careless riding suspension incurred at Betfair Park Sandown while Cassidy was fined $1000 and outed for two meetings for breaching the whip rules on one of his rides at Canterbury.
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| Wallace can't wait for Caulfield |
Gold Coast trainer John Wallace is looking forward to his star galloper Shoot Out meeting the likes of Typhoon Tracy and So You Think for the first time in Saturday's Memsie Stakes at Caulfield.
Shoot Out goes into the Group Two weight-for-a ... (1 comments)
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| Moody gives Tracy a shot at stardom |
Peter Moody says Typhoon Tracy needs a Cox Plate triumph to propel her into the category of turf superstar.
As he prepares for her return to racing in the Memsie Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday, the Melbourne premiership-winning trainer is c ... (4 comments)
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| All Silent Preparing For Melbourne Return |
Randwick trainer Graham Begg took advantage of the use of the Warwick Farm course proper for today's trial as he prepares to send All Silent to Melbourne for his light spring campaign.
While the Warwick Farm course prop ... (5 comments)
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| Brereton Future In Doubt |
Brereton's future in the saddle is all but over after he underwent surgery on his lower back on Sunday for injuries suffered in a fall at Moonee Valley on Saturday.
Brereton also suffered severe concussion, broken ribs, a punctured lung and ... (1 comments)
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| NZ Plans In Place For Illuminates |
Illuminates is booked to be flown to New Zealand on Monday for her final career starts before she goes to stud.
She is booked to be served by Oakleigh Plate winner Swiss Ace at Harvey's Westbury Stud in NZ after running in Group One races at the c ... (1 comments)
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| Bolter Sole Power Stuns Australian Star |
Sole Power, a three-year-old whose only two previous successes had come on the all-weather trtack at Dundalk, brought Starspangledbanner's winning run in G1 events England to an end in the five furlong dash on York's straight course.
Starspangledb ... (2 comments)
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