At his last start Deakin won the Torney Night Cup at The Valley and Stokes decided to wait the four or five weeks for this race. The imported stayer has only had 14 starts and has now won five of them ...

Ciaron Maher was to the fore in the Australian Cup, but it was the lesser-known stablemate Light Infantry Man who took out the brutally run 2000m race. It wasn’t a major boilover, but it was a ...

Craig Newitt (Pride Of Jenni): “A bit of a head-scratcher. She flew the gates, and I was happy with the first couple of furlongs, and she had travelled well, and we got to the 1200 (metres) and they ...

Maher was battling his emotions after the race as while Pride Of Jenni failed and expensive import Middle Earth also ran below expectations in fifth place, he prepared the winner Light Infantry Man, ...

New Zealand trainer Ken Kelso won’t be tempted to run Alabama Lass again as a three-year-old, despite a wealth of interest in the filly, following a superb first look at the Flemington straight track ...

Sam Freedman was left to rue Deny Knowledge’s slow start in Saturday’s Group 1 Australian Cup (2000m) after the G1 winner stuck on gamely into second behind Light Infantry Man. The daughter of Pride ...

The Lindsay Park stable has again worked wonders with a comeback horse after former Hong Kong galloper Joyful Fortune sprung a surprise at Flemington on Saturday.

Both Prestige Ole and Prestige Forever are owned by Hong Kong-based Eric Leung, who has ventured lately into racing horses in Australia and has about a dozen young horses with Brideoake and Jenkins.

Ann-Jeanette Tindale made a ridiculous start to her training career with her first runner, King Alla, saluting at $350.20 on UTab and $415 on Betfair. Tindale had only sent a couple to the trials ...

Freish is best for A Little Deep as she again demonstrated when she made it four first-up starts for five wins when she took out the TAB We’re On Handicap (1100m, Mares) at Flemington. Her trainer ...

The dual G1 meeting, which also featured VRC Oaks winner Treasurethe Moment’s attempt at a seventh straight win in the Vinery Stud Stakes, was postponed mid-morning on Saturday after heavy rain and ...

The Flemington-based trainer has prepared a number of imports, including the likes of Dice Roll, Munhamek and Cap De Joie, and says Louis Barthas has been relatively straightforward. "He actually come ...