Year: 2020

Belardo’s Lullaby Moon lands Two-Year-Old Trophy

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First-season sire Belardo continued his flying run of form in the northern hemisphere when siring his third Stakes winner on Saturday with Lullaby Moon in the Listed Two Year Old Trophy at Redcar. Sent off hot favourite, the two-year-old filly tracked the leaders, making headway two furlongs out under jockey Rossa Ryan, the filly kept on well to edge out her challengers and win by half a length. Lullaby Moon is the best performer from the winning Indesatchel mare Bold Bidder, herself a half-sister to the Stakes-placed pair of Better…

Winners flowing for Mongolian Khan

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Wagga trainer Tim Donnelly cleaned up at his local meeting on Saturday, claiming three of the six winners on the card, including the heavily backed Mongolian Brave (NZ) (Mongolian Khan), which was supported from $5 into $1.90 favourite on debut. Under a positive ride, the NZB Ready To Run Sale graduate lead throughout and ran out a comfortable winner over 1000m, a distance bound to be well short of his best. Mongolian Brave is the second winner for triple Group One winner Mongolian Khan, a dual Derby winner and Caulfield…

Different complexion for Livamol Classic

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The final field for the last Group One event of the Hastings spring carnival, the Gr.1 Livamol Classic (2040m) is likely to have a markedly different look to it than the one that lined up in Saturday’s Gr.1 Windsor Park Plate (1600m). While the three Jamie Richards-trained runners, Melody Belle (NZ) (Commands), Avantage (Fastnet Rock) and Prise De Fer (NZ) (Savabeel), who finished first, second and fifth respectively, are all but confirmed to take their place in the race, a number of those who finished in behind them won’t be on hand to…

Adelaide Cup time

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Catch The Thief secured box one in the Group 1 TAB Adelaide Cup after bypassing the heats thanks to his South Australia Match race victory last week. Thursday night’s heats saw Victorian Taken, who is in the care of Raymond Murray, record the fastest qualifying time of 29.35sec (4.41sec) in a typically strong performance. WATCH: Taken win his heat of the Adelaide Cup from box seven. Our last Victorian chance, Mepunga Isla utilised box one to perfection leading all the way in her second victory on the track. Mepunga Isla…

Well, why not Gazza?

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Geelong fans could be like the ‘cat that got the cream’ with this TAB cross-sports offer. The betting giant is offering $4.20 about Geelong’s ‘little master’ Gary Ablett kicking 1+ goals against Port Adelaide tonight and the aptly named Why Not Gazza placing at Warragul greyhounds. Ablett has kicked seven goals from eight matches – an average of 0.9 goals per game. Meanwhile, the Leigh Carter-trained Why Not Gazza – a winner of seven races from 55 starts – lines up in a Tier 3 Grade 5 event over 400m.…

Hello It’s Me retired

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Group Two winner Hello It’s Me has been retired after missing a run at Te Rapa on Friday following a float accident. The Darci Brahma six-year-old won five of her 19 career starts but had been finding it hard to recapture the form of her three-year-old season where she took out the Gr.2 Royal Stakes (200m) at Ellerslie. Co-trainer Michelle Bradley would have liked to have given one of her favourites one last chance to turn her form around but it wasn’t to be. “She just had a little bit…

Golden Eagle target ideal for Riodini

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A gallant effort for third by Kiwi-bred galloper Riodini in Saturday’s Gr.1 Epsom Handicap (1600m) gave co-owner and breeder Alan Galbraith a massive thrill. Galbraith, who shares in the ownership of the four-year-old Proisir gelding with wife Liz, daughter Celia and her husband Mike, was cheering hard throughout the race as the family’s pride and joy took over approaching the home bend before battling on gamely for third behind New Zealand-bred mare Probabeel. Successful at his first four starts in New Zealand when trained by Nigel Tiley, including the Gr.3…

Records smashed in Ellerslie jumping features

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The winners of the two jumping features at Ellerslie smashed the existing track record on their way to convincing victories in their respective events on Sunday. Whanganui chaser Magic Wonder now looms as a major hope in the famed Great Northern Steeplechase (6400m) in a fortnight after comfortably accounting for her rivals in Sunday’s CLC Pakuranga Hunt Cup (4900m). Magic Wonder clears the last fence on her way to victory in the CLC Pakuranga Hunt Cup (4900m) at EllersliePhoto Credit: Trish Dunell Handled expertly by rider Barry Donoghue, the eight-year-old…